Ellen DeGeneres has canceled a number of performances of her newest stand-up tour, Ellen’s Final Stand… Up.Â
The cancellations, set to have an effect on exhibits this month and subsequent in Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle, and Chicago, had been introduced on the Ticketmaster website.
Whereas no particular purpose for the cancellations has been supplied, Ticketmaster conveyed a message stating, “Sadly, the Occasion Organizer has needed to cancel your occasion.” Ticket holders had been assured they’d obtain refunds inside 14 to 21 days. Tickets for different dates on the tour are nonetheless obtainable for buy.
ET has reached out to DeGeneres for remark.
DeGeneres launched her tour in June, returning to the stage after facing allegations of a toxic workplace environment on her discuss present. The 66-year-old comic opened up about her “cancellation” and mentioned her return to the stage — and the general public eye — two years after she ended her daytime talk show after 19 seasons. An eyewitness within the viewers mentioned the previous TV host chatted about her life today and people “imply” allegations that she mentioned derailed her profession.Â
“I received kicked out of present enterprise as a result of I am ‘imply’… You’ll be able to’t be imply in present enterprise, they will kick you out,” she joked, including that at one level, she learn a headline that referred to as her the “most hated individual in America.” Ever the comic, DeGeneres quipped that whereas it did not really feel good to learn front-page fodder like that, it was doubly terrible as a result of it is a title that holds no trophy or prize.Â
She continued, stating that the autumn from grace was made worse contemplating that she was as soon as seen as one of the trusted individuals within the nation and that followers and mates alike would typically ask her to babysit their kids. That does not occur anymore, she mentioned, noting that it really is not the worst factor now that she is out of child-watching obligation.Â
DeGeneres — who confronted allegations back in 2020 of upholding a toxic workplace environment at The Ellen DeGeneres Present and being impolite — instructed the viewers that whereas she is many issues, she doesn’t contemplate herself to be a “imply” individual. She mentioned that whereas the media firestorm was terrible on the time, it has in the end led her to some extent of readability and happiness in her life. It is also given her the power to make jokes in regards to the scenario.Â
Additionally within the viewers was DeGeneres’ spouse of 16 years, Portia de Rossi, who the comic mentioned is her “greatest pal” and “soulmate.” The comic typically seemed to de Rossi for assurance all through the present as she cracked joke after joke about their lives post-scandal. DeGeneres even joked that her first cancellation in Hollywood was when she got here out on her TV sitcom, Ellen, in 1997. She additionally mentioned she expects yet another cancellation in a few years when she hits the age the place Hollywood has no extra use for ladies.Â
A 12 months after The Ellen DeGeneres Present got here to an finish, a source told ET about how the previous host was maintaining busy. “Ellen just isn’t retired. She didn’t renew her present, however she has by no means not labored,” the supply mentioned. “Though she has taken a while off from performing, she has numerous manufacturers, an upcoming documentary as a part of her Discovery deal, etcetera, that she is engaged on.”
DeGeneres’ present tour would be the foundation for what will probably be her closing Netflix stand-up particular, six years after her final, Relatable, dropped on the streaming platform.Â
In a pre-released assertion in regards to the tour and the particular, DeGeneres mentioned, “To reply the questions everyone seems to be asking me — sure, I will speak about it. Sure that is my final particular. Sure, Portia actually is that fairly in actual life.”
DeGeneres is scheduled to renew her tour on July 8 in Denver.
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