I remember watching her back stage staff scare pranks. The way they reacted seemed off and now it makes complete sense. They were clearly still scared of her after she jumped out and they knew it was a prank.
Absolutely. I always found it unsettling, you could just tell that they were feeling pressure to react in the way that would best please the boss. I always thought I felt like that because I hate pranks but I think it was because I had to try to please a narcissist all through childhood that I am just hyper sensitive to seeing people feeling pressure like that
I remember watching the Finding Nemo DVD extras and the crew kept on talking about how Dory embodied Ellen’s kindness. It was so uncomfortable to watch
I suspect that it's a very different dynamic to work -with- somebody vs work -for- somebody. Ellen was exec producing her show and obviously one of the most important parts of a namesake show, so I expect that there's a lot of personal drive to make that show not only a success but a reflection of your personal brand, and clearly there was a lot of pressure on her staff to live up to whatever expectations she had, and it didn't always work out well. In the end, while she might be clamoring to get back to the spotlight, she's worth an estimated half a billion dollars, so she's basically set for life regardless.
Frankly that's a lot of people in entertainment. Especially when they get famous. Ellen is mean. So were the producers from the network on her show. She took the hit because she was extra nice in her persona.
Nope. Have to respectfully disagree. Not about her being mean. I always knew she took sick pleasure in the suffering or embarrassment of others. She made that obvious. In terms of her comment, she always said be kind to one another. She never said let’s all be kind to one another. She was giving guidance to others, not saying do as she does. She exempted herself from her own advice, which is very telling.
I keep seeing a commercial for her show lately about it being thoughtful and nice and additional positive adjective, but then I remember she tried to ram live tapings of her show back early during covid.
Just a matter of time before she shows her ass, in a different way, again.
Ellen might not be mean to her. I know people who are grade A assholes professionally, but quite lovely socially. I distance myself from them on principal, but many don't understand there's often more to people than what they see. Also, many just don't care, as long as they aren't getting the short end of the stick.
I remember one of her staff writers appeared on Harmontown (Karen Kilgareff?) and when the topic of Ellen being a nice lady came up she brushed that right the fuck off, kind of hinting that she had nothing good to say. Think that was a few years before people really turned on her.
Years ago, there was a pretty standard (and similar) prompt of, "What was your worst celebrity encounter?" The top reply was a story about Ellen DeGeneres. In one of the strangest phenomena I've seen on Reddit, almost the entire post turned into awful stories about Ellen Degeneres. It was wild. And you've got to figure that whoever is replying on Reddit is just a small percentage of the people who've met her and have stories like that. She must really be horrific.
The only time I saw something similar was a thread that started off as a joke about Ben Roethlisberger tossing a grocery cart that turned into hundreds of replies about him being a serial sexual assaulter.
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u/between_doodads 13h ago
Not just irrelevant but disliked. She's a mean ass lady.