Well, we knew it was only a matter of time. Ellen DeGeneres has just announced that the upcoming 19th season of her hit daytime talk show will be the last. She’s done, folx.
In a statement to the Hollywood Reporter, DeGeneres said, “When you’re a creative person, you have to be constantly challenged – and as great as this show is, and as fun as it is, it’s just not a challenge.”
We’re sure that’s it and has nothing to do with the drop in ratings after its summer of scandal last year which included allegations of a toxic workplace, bullying and harassment.
“I was going to quit after Season 16,” added DeGeneres. “This was going to be my last season and they wanted to sign for four more years and I said I would sign for maybe one.
“They said there was no way to sign one. “We can’t do this with the affiliates and the resorts need more engagement. So we [settled] three more years and I knew it would be my last. This has always been the plan. And everyone kept saying, even when I signed, ‘You know, it’s going to be 19, don’t you just want to go to 20? That’s a good number. The same goes for 19. “
DeGeneres reportedly informed staff of his decision to end the show yesterday. Next, she’ll sit down with her daytime predecessor Oprah Winfrey to discuss tomorrow’s episode of Ellen in more detail.
Here’s what Twitter says about it all …
Now more than ever it’s so important to remember that Ellen Is Mean #ellenismean
– Chris Murphy (@christress) May 12, 2021
The funniest thing about the ending of the Ellen DeGeneres show is the fact that she doesn’t even recognize that what happened this summer was a major factor.
– HoliDoom (@JoeyDoomsday) May 12, 2021
BREAKING: Ellen DeGeneres Ends Talk Show: “I Need Something New To Challenge Me”
… I guess those notes didn’t see a bounce after her staff reported her for terrible treatment.
– Wayne Dupree Media, LLC (@WayneDupreeShow) May 12, 2021
Who’s going to demoralize Ellen now?!?!?
– Antonio Barbosa (@TheSimian_) May 12, 2021
Ellen DeGeneres tries to convince us that her show ends with lack of creativity, when we know that it was Dakota Johnson who finished it pic.twitter.com/scUcqMCJU7
– Joshua Chenault (@ joshuachenault1) May 12, 2021
The only people who still watch the Ellen show are middle-aged white moms laughing at minion memes on Facebook
– Cam (@caminhiding) May 12, 2021
if you ever get the chance to get drunk with someone who worked on the ellen show i highly recommend it
– cullen “swamp trash” crawford (@HelloCullen) May 12, 2021
Dakota Johnson has done more for society by ending ellen degeneres than most of your career favorites and it shows
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– hi hi, Nicole !! (@canaryfilmss) May 12, 2021
Liza Minnelli survived Ellen DeGeneres’ daytime talk show. Ellen decided that the upcoming season, the show’s nineteenth, would be the last.
– LizaMinnelliOutlives (@LiZaOutlives) May 12, 2021
Graham Gremore is editor and editor at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
