Archive June 22, 2025

Since Ellen has fled the US, she has resided in two country homes, but the first was far from the couple’s ideal home. The couples have since found happiness in their new homes, as well as sheep.

Ellen DeGeneres, 67, quietly moved to the UK after Donald Trump’s re-election in 2024, ditching her $96million (£71million) California estate for the rolling hills of the Cotswolds.

While Ellen and Portia originally snapped up a sprawling 43-acre farmhouse, things didn’t go to plan. The luxury mansion bought as a dream escape was reportedly hit with epic flooding, and locals say nearby roads were left five feet under water. The couple are also said to have struggled with tight country roads, even needing to detour a mile and a half just to get around traffic bollards.

Now, they’ve moved to a second property perched on higher ground in Oxfordshire and the new spot already seems like a better match – no flooding, fewer detours and as fans have seen this week, plenty of space for sheep to roam.. or sneak inside

Ellen shared a sweet photo of Portia taking a rainbow from their hilltop garden this week, giving us a sneak peek inside. She captioned the photo, “My wife, a rainbow, and my wife taking a photograph of a rainbow.”

She’s also been demonstrating their expanding animal family, including their brand-new sheep, who have made a great family.

Four sheep were seen startling their tiny dog while they were sweeping through the couple’s open-plan home in a recent Instagram video. “They’re inside”? Ellen calmly responds, “Yeah, they’re inside,” when Portia asks.

One of the sheep named Bernie strolls indoors in another clip that Portia shot. She chuckles, “Oh no, Bernie, you can’t be in here,” and gently leads her back.

Ellen had just a few days earlier posted footage of the sheep climbing into the chicken coop. That’s not what you eat, I tell you! She rebuked them and chased them away from the camera.

However, the couple is embracing rural life, chickens included. Not everything has been overlooked, though. Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy, recently roasted Ellen at a lavish charity event where he joked, “She left right after the election… now she’s the nicest person in France.”

She actually lives in the English countryside, which is inaccurate.

Ellen previously refuted claims that she is “mean,” saying in a stand-up interview that she can be “tough and demanding… but not mean.”

With their new £15 million hilltop home, which has stunning views, a sustainable drainage system, and hopefully fewer surprises, the couple appear to be settling into village life despite the storms.

The singer admitted she tried GLP-1 after dissing GLP-1 rumors, explaining that she prefers to refer to her weight loss journey as a “weight release.”

Years of speculating about Lizzo’s body have culminated in the star admitting she “tried everything” to achieve the dramatic weight loss that has dumfounded her fans.

The 37-year-old singer told Trisha Paytas’ Just Trish podcast that she began to take GLP-1 medication at the outset of her weight loss journey in 2023, after shutting down rumours of her taking the medication. But despite taking it she soon came to the conclusion that it was not a long-term solution.

She said: “I tried everything. Ozempic works because you eat less food, yeah? So if you eat right, it makes you feel full. But if you can just do that on your own and get mind over matter, it’s the same thing.”

The Grammy winner described a lengthy and complex journey with food as frustrated by a time when she was consuming a lot of “fake” food.

She also rebuffed anyone who claimed that taking GLP-1 medication was “cheating,” claiming that this was a “fat phobic” dose. It’s difficult, they say. To assist someone in a problem, it’s a drug. When you tell someone they’re cheating, I believe people are acting fat phobic.

Instead, she altered her diet to meet her goals. From 2020 to 2023, Lizzo had been a plant-based diet for many years. She was vegan for three years.

She told Trisha, “It wasn’t being vegan, which did it for me.” Because I ate a lot of fake meat while vegan, I thought. I needed to consume a lot of it because I needed to eat a lot of it to stay full. I ate a lot of it when I needed to. Lizzo discovered that she ended up consuming 3, 000 to 5, 000 calories per day while still maintaining a healthy diet.

She noted that “fake sugar” can be found in some products that are marketed as healthy and leave you feeling hungry. For me, that is when I began eating whole foods, including beef, chicken, and fish. I put a lot of fake things in my stomach that didn’t actually fill me up, which made me feel full and not expand my stomach.

Lizzo’s body mass decreased by 10% and her body fat decreased by 16% as it was made public in January. She claims to feel great despite criticism from nay-sayers who claimed her weight-loss journey was a journey without body-positivity.

Lizzo explained, “I feel like I worked really really hard and it was intentional with what I did with my body. So when I get compliments, I go, ‘Thanks b***h.’ Like I really receive it because I need to receive that. I don’t take it any weird way because I tried to do this.”

Last year, the singer had shut down allegations that she was taking GLP-1 medications. She shared a short Instagram wearing a colorful, satin robe while her hair was pulled back captioned, “When you finally get Ozempic allegations after 5 months of weight training and calorie deficit.”

The user accused Lizzo of taking “Oxempic” or “coke,” and she then shared a screenshot of the comment. The troll asked whether she had snorted coke or used Ozempic. The Grammy-winning author responded, “Whyyyy do you follow me?” “followed by four crying face emojis. The Instagram user’s account, which had been set to private, was then shared by Lizzo.

She announced in January that she had successfully lost weight and that she had succeeded. I’ve reached my weight release goal today when I step on the scale! This number hasn’t been updated since 2014! You can do anything you want to do, let me remind you. Time for new objectives!

Then in April during an episode of the On Purpose With Jay Shetty podcast, Lizzo said she prefers to use the term “weight release” in place of weight loss. She credited her boyfriend Myke Wright saying, “My man, he’s so funny. He was the one that brought it to my attention at first. Because at first I was like, ‘Oh my gosh I lost five pounds’ and he was like, ‘Where did it go?’

“I was mad at him, I was like, “Why would he say that?” but he was like, “Where did it go?’I want to be very intentional about the words that come out of my mouth because there’s young people who are watching me and they’re experiencing what I’m putting into the world. They’re applying it to their own experience and their own life just like I did when I was a kid.”

She added: “Be careful with your words because it can affect somebody in ways you don’t even know.Even me releasing the weight has affected people and I take that seriously. I take that responsibility. And because of that I want to transmute it into something that makes people feel comfortable and less afraid of it.”

During an appearance on The Jason Lee Show, Lizzo explained why she hasn’t revealed her exact weight loss number. “If I say the number, I don’t think people could do the math. I’ve just seen a lot of TikToks where it’s like, ‘Lizzo talks about her 500lbs weight loss!’ Why are y’all putting numbers on me? It kind of annoys me.”

As the couple lavishly celebrated their eight-year anniversary, Madonna Song shared a glimpse of her romantic beachside meal with Macaulay Culkin in Hawaii.

Brenda Song and her fiancé Macaulay Culkin celebrated a huge mile stone, complete with all the romantic frills, as the pair give an intimate and rare look into their relationship.

The Running Point star, 37, named a carousel of moments their “anniversary adventures,” and the pair embarked on a romantic trip to celebrate eight years of love. In the reel of images released on June 19, the Home Alone child star smiles into the camera. On a white beach with sun-kissed white sand, Song, who started dating Culkin in 2017, lit up the post with her exuberant smile. She wore a bikini top, an airy cover-up, a fashionable sun hat, and sunglasses while flaunting herself in black.

She followed up the beach photo with a full-body mirror selfie, and then showed a snap of herself and Culkin, 44, cozying up at a table during a candlelit al-fresco meal. There was also a “Happy Anniversary” dessert spiked with a sparkler, scenic shots of the beach dotted with sun loungers; a display of fireworks; and another sensual outdoor dinner.

Song gave the photo montage an encore on her Instagram Stories, setting it against Queen’s anthem “You’re My Best Friend.” Prior to these images, both Song and Culkin shared heartfelt tributes to each other. Culkin’s June 17 post included a captivating picture of his fiancée approaching him on the shore, paired with the caption: “Happy anniversary, babe. Thank you for always coming towards me. You never run away,”.

In his 18-photo flipbook post, Song seemed to be gaining more and more in-touch with the Party Monster star while exuding joy with her smiles. There is still no one who makes me laugh or smile the way you do, Song said in a heartfelt homage to her. No one who “makes” me feel more heard, loved, or seen.

She shared a playful selfie of the pair pulling comical expressions for the camera while the pair were both rocking bunny ears at a celebration outside.

Thank you for making me my partner in crime, my adventure partner, my best friend, my baby daddy, and my favorite combination. The greatest privilege is to have you love you, Song continued in her caption. Zack & Cody star’s suite life ended with “Happy Anniversary.” You are my love.

The couple tied the knot in 2022 and began dating in 2017. Dakota, 4, and Carson, who were both born in 2023, are proud parents.

Their friend and model Stormi Bree, who was Lucky B Smith’s ex-partner, jokingly said, “Happy anniversary to the best couple I know I love you guys!” While Quinn, a celebrity chef, shared a straightforward “OMG” with Culkin.

The pair made an appearance on Comopolitan’s “Love Issue” earlier this year, claiming they wanted to contribute to changing what it meant to be child stars.