Daily Mail is both reporting the Ellen DeGeneres is seriously been in talks with top executives from Warner Bros. and Telepictures, the company that produces the show, to let them know she is considering pulling the plug entirely.
“She feels she can't go on and the only way to recover her personal brand from this is to shut down the show,” an insider at Telepictures revealed to Daily Mail.
“The truth is she knew what was going on — it’s her show. The buck stops with her. She can blame every executive under the sun — but Ellen is ultimately the one to blame.”
In her apology statement to her staff, it is she pushed the blame on executive producers, but it has been an open secret for years in Hollywood that DeGeneres herself treats people horribly. Back in 2016, when I was Editor in Chief of Celebuzz.com I was aware of the rumors.
A few celebrities have acknowledged that DeGeneres herself is not a nice person and is ultimately responsible for what has happened in her show's workplace.
Then Everybody Loves Raymond actor Brad Garrett tweeted of the mistreatment, “It comes from the top … [I] know more than one who were treated horribly by her. Common knowledge.”
Back to the Future actress Lea Thompson chimed in, replying to a tweet about Garrett’s statement with “True story. It is.”
On Thursday (July 30, 2020), Andy Lassner and executive producer on The Ellen DeGeneres Show responded to a tweet saying, “Nobody is going off the air.”
The show is a huge moneymaker for Warner Bros. and Telepictures and she's contractually obligated to continue the show through 2022. We're going to have to wait and see on this one.
If the show does return, that is going to be one very awkward season debut episode.
