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Rosie O'Donnell talks strained Ellen DeGeneres relationship, changing 'The View'

Rosie O'Donnell's career on television has been filled with ups and downs.

The comedian, 61, was one of the first openly lesbian women on television and ushered the path for Ellen DeGeneres' stardom.

In a profile with The Hollywood Reporter published Thursday, O'Donnell opened up about how her relationship shifted with DeGeneres over the years and pushing to include political discussions during her time as co-host on "The View."

DeGeneres teased coming out when she appeared on "The Rosie O'Donnell" show in amid rumors about her sexuality. The two comedians did a bit where they joked that DeGeneres' character on the sitcom "Ellen" was revealing she is "Lebanese." O'Donnell joked that she also believed she was Lebanese (although she didn't enter out until ), to which DeGeneres quipped: "Half of Hollywood is Lebanese."

"It was a fine relationship. We were friends. We supported each other. Which is why when she came on my show, I said, 'Let me not have you standing there by yourself. Let's acquire a joke

When we talk queer icons we’re usually talking about pop stars like Madonna, Rihanna, Beyoncé and Britney, or actresses over 50 enjoy Nicole Kidman, Jean Smart and Viola Davis. But there’s a not-so-new league of gay divas who have ascended to an all-new level of icon status over the last few years: the daytime discuss show host. 

We’re pointing the finger of blame at social media, namely Gay Twitter, for the way the women of daytime chat have been elevated to the alike icon status as pop and movie stars. What makes the queer fascination for daytime chat shows particularly fascinating is just how straight these shows are: The View, Wendy Williams, The Drew Barrymore Show, The Talk, The Kelly Clarkson Show and even Ellen, despite being hosted by an out lesbian, are all targeted at stay-at-home, straight, cisgender mothers. Of course, there’s always been a queer affinity for the strong female personalities of daytime TV—we’ve never met a queer millennial who wasn’t obsessed with The Rosie O’Donnell Show—but what we’re witnessing now is amplified. Today’s women of night

She’s the highest paid chat-show host on US TV and was honoured by Barack Obama for campaign work for the LGBT community. But it hasn’t been an plain rise to the top for one of Hollywood’s first openly gay women

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In the summer of , Ellen DeGeneres moved out of the Adj Orleans home she shared with long-term girlfriend Kat Perkoff after an argument. A few nights later, on 26 June, Perkoff tried to make amends when they ran into each other at a gig. But DeGeneres, an aspiring comedienne, ignored her. ‘She was trying to fetch me to enter home,’ DeGeneres recalls. ‘I acted favor I couldn’t notice her because the music was too loud.’

That night was a pivotal moment in DeGeneres’s life, because it was to be the last conversation the pair would hold. Travelling home later that evening, the comedienne, then 22, passed a wrecked Mercedes at the side of the road. The following morning she discovered that Perkoff, a year-old poet, was in the noun when it crashed and had bee

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Ellen DeGeneres Now: Comedian’s Final Stand-Up Special Arrives on Netflix

Ellen DeGeneres is releasing one last stand-up special before permanently disappearing from the public eye. The comedian’s ultimate special, Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval, premieres today, September 24, on Netflix.

The new extraordinary is her first big project since her long-running discuss show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, came to an conclude in June , just two years after staffers accused her of creating a “toxic labor environment.”

As anticipated, the controversy is a major topic in For Your Approval. In the hour-long set, DeGeneres discusses being supposedly “kicked out of demonstrate business” and refutes accusations that she was “mean” to her staff. Yet, she also reflects that she “was a very immature boss” because she “didn’t want to be a boss” and is now “happy” that she is no longer in that position.

Ahead of the release of For Your Approval, the year-old embarked on her Ellen’s Last Stand… Up tour, telling an audience during a post-performance Q&A in July that the speci