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Photo: George Burns She's known for her sharp wit and easygoing attitude (and, of course, the sneakers and funky dance moves). But behind the comedy is a woman who's had to muster her courage to get where she is today. Ellen DeGeneres tells Oprah about her balanced life, her loving wife, and how she intends to take her new job as an American Idol judge very seriously.

Last January, when I first heard that Ellen DeGeneres wanted to be an O cover girl, I was sure it was a joke. She started with an announcement to the four million viewers of The Ellen DeGeneres Show: "Goodbye to the resolution to read," she quipped, "and hello to the resolution to be on the front cover of O in '09!" Then the

crusade intensified. In March she launched an "O, Yes I Can!" campaign, and, in between unsuccessful attempts to reach me at the Harpo studios, she unveiled a series of mock O covers, including one on which she and I are riding a tandem bicycle through the countryside. The campaign was so funny, I actually hesitated to make the call that finally ended it. But last May, during Ellen's 1,000th show, I surprised her by Skyping into the broadcast and inviting her to share this month's cover with me. Of course, as far as covers go, this one is nothing compared with the one she did in April 1997, when she appeared on the front of Time magazine next to the headline "Yep, I'm Gay." In those days, Ellena Louisiana native who broke into stand-up comedy in the early '80s by performing at small clubs in New Orleanswas the star of her own sitcom, ABC's Ellen. As the show gained popularity and critical acclaim, Ellen, now 51, chose to reveal the secret she'd been carrying for years. What followed was a media circus leading up to the most-watched episode of her series: an estimated 42 million people tuned in to see Ellen's character also come out of the closet. But just as quickly, the crowds went away. The show's ratings started to crash, and a year later it was canceled. In September 2003, Ellen came back to television as host of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, now in its seventh season. When she's not delighting viewers with her quick wit and spontaneous dance moves, she's squeezing in one of her side gigslike, say, hosting the Academy Awards (which she did in 2007) or taking a spot on the judges' panel on American Idol (which she'll do in 2010). Away from the limelight, Ellen shares her life with the actress Portia de Rossi. The two began dating in 2004, and four years later, in a private ceremony at their home, they married. Despite the passage of California's Proposition 8 (which made same-sex marriage illegal in the state), the couple's union is still valid because it occurred before the November 4, 2008, vote. When Ellen arrived at the photo shoot for our cover , I didn't have to ask her how she was doing: it showed on her face. She radiated the kind of peace and satisfaction that comes only when you're living at your highest potential. That's why, a few days after our photo session, I give Ellen a callto talk about the balance she's obviously achieved in her life, and to get the story behind the glimmer in her eye. Oprah Start reading Oprah's interview with Ellen PAGE 1 of 6 1 2 3 4 5

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Portia de Rossi
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Portia de Rossi

Portia de Rossi, February 2007 Amanda Lee Rogers Born 31 January 1973 (1973-01-31) (age 38) Horsham, Victoria, Australia Occupation Actress Years active 1994present Mel Metcalfe (19961999; divorced) Spouse Ellen DeGeneres (2008present) Portia Lee James DeGeneres (born Amanda Lee Rogers; 31 January 1973), known professionally as Portia de Rossi ( /pr d rsi/), is an Australian actress, best known for her roles as lawyer Nelle Porter on the television series Ally McBeal and Lindsay Bluth Fnke on the sitcom Arrested Development.[1][2] She also portrayed Veronica Palmer on the ABC sitcom Better Off Ted.

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1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Early life

Born Amanda Lee Rogers in Horsham, Victoria, Australia,[citation needed] she is the daughter of Margaret, a medical receptionist, and Barry Rogers.[3] She was raised in Grovedale, a suburb of Geelong in Victoria, Australia. As a child, she modeled for print and TV commercials. She adopted the name Portia de Rossi at the age of 15, stating in 2005 that she had intended to reinvent herself, using the given name of Portia, a character from William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, and an Italian last name.[4]

[edit] Career
Her first significant role was playing a young and impressionable model in the Australian 1994 film Sirens. Soon afterwards she moved to Los Angeles and had guest roles on several TV shows, and a permanent role in Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher, before landing a role in the film Scream 2. During this time in the United States, de Rossi worked diligently to replace her native Australian accent with her current General American one.[5] She attracted international attention when she joined the main cast of the Ally McBeal TV series in 1998 playing lawyer Nell Porter. She remained with the show until its end in 2002. In 2001, she starred in Who Is Cletis Tout? with Christian Slater. From 20032006, de Rossi starred as Lindsay Bluth Fnke on Fox Television's critically acclaimed, Emmy-winning series Arrested Development. She also portrayed John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, in the made for TV movie America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story in 2003. In 2005 she portrayed a fortune-teller named Zela in the Wes Craven thriller Cursed. From 20072008, de Rossi appeared in Nip/Tuck's fifth season as Julia McNamara's girlfriend Olivia Lord. From 20092010, de Rossi played Veronica Palmer on the ABC show Better Off Ted, in which she plays a high strung, hypersexual and controlling character. De Rossi will reprise her role as Lindsay Bluth Fnke in 2012's film adaptation of Arrested Development.[6] She ranked 69th in Stuff's 100 Sexiest Women, 31 in Femme Fatales' Sexiest Women of 2003 list, 24 in Maxim's 100 Sexiest Women List in 2004, and in late 2006, the magazine Blender listed her as one of the hottest women of film and TV.[7] In May 2007, she was featured as one of 100 Most Beautiful in a People magazine special edition. TV Guide included her and Ellen DeGeneres in their Power A-List couples in 2007.

[edit] Personal life

Portia de Rossi is openly gay.[4] She was married to documentary film-maker Mel Metcalfe from 1996 to 1999, initially part of a plan to get a green card, which she did not go through with. She said that "it just obviously wasn't right for me".[4] In a 2010 interview on Good Morning America she explained that as a young actress she was fearful of being exposed as gay.[8] From 2000 to 2004, de Rossi dated singer Francesca Gregorini, daughter of actress Barbara Bach and stepchild of Ringo Starr. She said most of her family and Ally McBeal cast mates did not know she was a lesbian until tabloid pictures of the couple were published.[4] She declined to publicly discuss the relationship or her sexual orientation at the time. De Rossi and Gregorini broke up in late 2004 as de Rossi began dating talk show host and comedienne Ellen DeGeneres, whom she met backstage at an awards show.[9] In 2005, she opened up publicly about her sexual orientation in interviews with Details and The Advocate. She became engaged to Ellen DeGeneres after the talk show host proposed to her with a three-

carat pink diamond ring.[10] They were married on 16 August 2008 at their Beverly Hills home, with 19 guests including their respective mothers.[10] She struggled with the eating disorder anorexia nervosa for four years while filming Ally McBeal.[9][11] She supports a variety of charitable organisations, including Locks of Love, a group that provides human hair wigs at no cost[12][13][14][15] for children with alopecia and other medical conditions that cause hair loss.[16] She has also supported fundraising efforts for FXB International,[17] an African AIDS relief organisation, and The Art of Elysium,[18] an art foundation for terminally ill children. An avid animal lover, de Rossi also supports Alley Cat Allies,[19] an organisation dedicated to protecting and improving the lives of cats.[20] On 6 August 2010, she filed a petition to legally change her name to Portia Lee James DeGeneres.[21] The petition was granted on 23 September 2010.[22] In 2010 de Rossi published the autobiography Unbearable Lightness which talks about the turmoil that she has experienced in her life, including suffering from anorexia nervosa and being misdiagnosed with lupus.[23][24][25] To promote the book, she appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.[

Ellen DeGeneres
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Ellen DeGeneres (2009) Birth name Born Ellen DeGeneres January 26, 1958 (1958-01-26) (age 53) Metairie, Louisiana, U.S. Stand-up, television, film, books American 1981 present Steve Martin,[1] Woody Allen,[1] Bob Newhart,[1] Johnny Carson Portia de Rossi (2008present) Anne Heche (1997-2000) Alexandra Hedison (20012004)

Medium Nationality Years active Influences Spouse Domestic partner(s)

Emmy Awards Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series 1997 Ellen

Outstanding Talk Show 2004 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2005 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2006 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2007 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2010 The Ellen Degeneres Show Outstanding Special Class Writing 2005 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2006 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2007 The Ellen DeGeneres Show Outstanding Talk Show Host 2005 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2006 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2007 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2008 The Ellen DeGeneres Show American Comedy Awards Funniest Female Stand-Up Comic 1991 Funniest Female Performer in a TV Special 1994 46th Primetime Emmy Awards 2000 Ellen DeGeneres: The Beginning Saturn Award Best Supporting Actress (film) 2003 Finding Nemo

Ellen DeGeneres (pronounced /ddnrs/; born January 26, 1958) is an American stand-up comedienne, television host and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and was also a judge on American Idol for one year, having joined the show in its ninth season. DeGeneres has hosted both the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmys. As a film actress, she starred in Mr. Wrong, appeared in EDtv and The Love Letter, and provided the voice of Dory in the Disney-Pixar animated film Finding Nemo, for which she was awarded a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first and only time a voice performance won a Saturn Award. She also starred in two television sitcoms, Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and The Ellen Show from 2001 to 2002. During the fourth season of Ellen in 1997, DeGeneres came out publicly as a lesbian in an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Shortly afterwards, her character Ellen Morgan also came out to a therapist played by Winfrey, and the series went on to explore various LGBT issues including the coming out process. She has won thirteen Emmys and numerous other awards for her work and charitable efforts.

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1 Early life and education 2 Career 2.1 Stand-up comedy 2.2 Early screen work 2.3 Ellen (sitcom, 19941998) 2.4 Ellen's Energy Adventure 2.5 The Ellen Show 2.6 2001 Emmy Awards 2.7 Voice acting 2.8 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2.9 79th Academy Awards 2.10 2007 Writers Guild strike 2.11 Commercial spokeswoman 2.12 American Idol 2.13 Eleveneleven

3 Personal life 4 Filmography 4.1 Television 4.2 Discography

5 Awards 6 Bibliography 7 References 8 External links

Early life and education

DeGeneres was raised in Metairie, Louisiana, the daughter of Betty Jane DeGeneres (ne Pfeffer), a speech therapist, and Elliott DeGeneres, an insurance agent.[2][3] She has one brother, Vance DeGeneres, who is a producer and musician. She is of French, English, German and Irish descent. DeGeneres was raised as a Christian Scientist until the age of thirteen. In 1973 DeGeneres's parents filed for separation and were divorced the following year. Shortly after, Betty Jane remarried Roy Gruessendorf, who worked as a salesman. Betty Jane and Ellen moved with Gruessendorf from the New Orleans area to Atlanta, Texas. Vance stayed with their birth father. DeGeneres graduated from Atlanta High School in May 1976, after completing her first years of high school at Grace King High School in Metairie, Louisiana. She moved back to New Orleans to attend the University of New Orleans, where she majored in communication studies. After one semester, she left school to do clerical work in a law firm with her cousin Laura Gillen. She also

held a job selling clothes at the chain store the Merry-Go-Round at the Lakeside Shopping Center. Other working experiences included being a waitress at TGI Friday's and another restaurant, a house painter, a hostess, and a bartender. She relates much of her childhood and career experiences in her comedic work.

Career
Stand-up comedy

DeGeneres started performing stand-up comedy at small clubs and coffee houses. By 1981 she was the emcee at Clyde's Comedy Club in New Orleans. Degeneres cites Woody Allen and Steve Martin as her main influences at this time.[1] In the early 1980s she began to tour nationally, being named Showtime's Funniest Person in America in 1982.[4] In 1986 she appeared for the first time on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, who likened her to Bob Newhart.[1] When Carson invited her over for an onscreen chat after her performance, she became the first comedienne in the show's history to be treated this way.[4]
Early screen work

Television and film work in the late 1980s and early 1990s included roles on television in Open House and in the film Coneheads.
Ellen (sitcom, 19941998)

At the Governor's Ball after the 46th Annual Emmy Awards telecast, Sept. 1994

DeGeneres's comedy material became the basis of the successful 19941998 sitcom Ellen, named These Friends of Mine during its first season. The ABC show was popular in its first few seasons due in part to DeGeneres's style of observational humor; it was often referred to as a "female Seinfeld."[5]

Ellen reached its height of popularity in February 1997, when DeGeneres made her homosexuality public on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Subsequently her character on the sitcom came out of the closet in April to her therapist, played by Oprah Winfrey, revealing that she is gay.[6] The coming-out episode, titled "The Puppy Episode", was one of the highest-rated episodes of the show. Later episodes of the series did not match its popularity, and after declining ratings, the show was canceled. DeGeneres returned to the stand-up comedy circuit, and later re-established herself as a successful talk show host.
Ellen's Energy Adventure

DeGeneres starred in a series of films for a show named Ellen's Energy Adventure, which is part of the Universe of Energy attraction and pavilion at Walt Disney World's Epcot. The film also featured Bill Nye, Alex Trebek, Michael Richards, and Jamie Lee Curtis. The show revolved around DeGeneres's falling asleep and finding herself in an energy-themed version of Jeopardy!, playing against an old rival, portrayed by Curtis, and Albert Einstein. The next film had DeGeneres hosting an educational look at energy, co-hosted with Nye. The ride first opened on September 15, 1996, as Ellen's Energy Crisis but was quickly renamed to the more positivesounding Ellen's Energy Adventure.
The Ellen Show

DeGeneres returned to series television in 2001 with a new CBS sitcom, The Ellen Show.
2001 Emmy Awards

DeGeneres received wide exposure on November 4, 2001 when she hosted the televised broadcast of the Emmy Awards. Presented after two cancellations due to network concerns that a lavish ceremony following the September 11, 2001 attacks would appear insensitive, the show required a more somber tone that would also allow viewers to temporarily forget the tragedy. DeGeneres received several standing ovations for her performance that evening, which included the line: "What would bug the Taliban more than seeing a gay woman in a suit surrounded by Jews?" In August 2005, DeGeneres hosted the 2005 Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony held on September 18, 2005. This was three weeks after Hurricane Katrina, making it the second time she hosted the Emmys following a national tragedy. She also hosted the Grammy Awards in 1996 and in 1997.
Voice acting

DeGeneres lent her voice to the role of Dory, a fish with short-term memory loss, in the summer 2003 hit animated Disney/Pixar film Finding Nemo. The film's director, Andrew Stanton, claimed that he chose Ellen because she "changed the subject five times before one sentence had finished" on her show.[7] For her performance as Dory, DeGeneres won the Saturn Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for "Best Supporting Actress"; "Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie" from the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards; and the Annie Award from the International Animated Film Association for "Outstanding Voice Acting". She was also nominated for a Chicago Film Critics Association Award in the "Best Supporting Actress" category. She also provided the voice of the dog in the prologue of the Eddie Murphy feature film Dr. Dolittle. Her win of the Saturn Award marked the first and only time the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films has given the acting award for a voice performance.

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

DeGeneres launched a daytime television talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show in September 2003. Amid a crop of several celebrity-hosted talk shows surfacing at the beginning of that season, such as those of Sharon Osbourne and Rita Rudner, her show has consistently risen in the Nielsen ratings and received widespread critical praise. It was nominated for 11 Daytime Emmy Awards in its first season, winning four, including Best Talk Show. The show has won 25 Emmy Awards in its first three seasons on the air. DeGeneres is known for her dancing and singing with the audience at the beginning of the show and during commercial breaks. She often gives away free prizes and trips to her studio audience with the help of her sponsors. DeGeneres celebrated her thirty-year class reunion by flying her graduating class to California to be guests on her show in February 2006. She presented Atlanta High School with a surprise gift of a new electronic LED marquee sign. In May 2006, DeGeneres made a surprise appearance at the Tulane University commencement in New Orleans. Following George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton to the podium, she came out in a bathrobe and furry slippers. "They told me everyone would be wearing robes," she said. Ellen then went on to make another commencement speech at Tulane in 2009.[8] The show broadcast for a week from Universal Studios Orlando in March 2007. Skits included DeGeneres going on the Hulk Roller Coaster Ride and the Jaws Boat Ride. In May 2007, DeGeneres was placed on bed rest due to a torn ligament in her back. She continued hosting her show from a hospital bed, tended to by a nurse, explaining "the show must go on, as they say." Guests sat in hospital beds as well. On May 1, 2009, DeGeneres celebrated her 1000th episode, featuring celebrity guests such as Oprah, Justin Timberlake, and Paris Hilton, among others.
79th Academy Awards

Ellen DeGeneres at the Emmy Awards, 1997

On September 7, 2006, DeGeneres was selected to host the 79th Academy Awards ceremony, which took place on February 25, 2007.[9] This makes her the first openly gay or lesbian person to have hosted the event. During the Awards show, DeGeneres said, "What a wonderful night, such diversity in the room, in a year when there's been so many negative things said about people's race, religion, and sexual orientation. And I want to put this out there: If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would be no Oscars, or anyone named Oscar, when you think about that."[10] Reviews of her hosting gig were positive, with one saying, "DeGeneres rocked, as she never forgot that she wasn't just there to entertain the Oscar nominees but also to tickle the audience at home."[11] Regis Philbin said in an interview that "the only complaint was there's not enough Ellen." DeGeneres was nominated for an Emmy Award as host of the Academy Awards broadcast.[12]
2007 Writers Guild strike

DeGeneres, like many actors who are also writers, is a member of both the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA). Thus, although DeGeneres verbally supported the 2007 WGA strike, she did not support it when she crossed the picket line the day after the strike began.[13][14] Her representatives said she was competing with other first-run syndicated shows during the competitive November sweeps period, and that she could not break her contracts or risk her show's losing its time slot. As a show of solidarity with the strikers, DeGeneres omitted her monologue during the strike, typically written by WGA writers.[15] The WGA condemned her while the AFTRA defended her.
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Commercial spokeswoman

In November 2004, DeGeneres appeared, dancing, in an ad campaign for American Express. Her most recent American Express commercial, a two-minute black-and-white spot in which she works with animals, debuted in November 2006 and was created by Ogilvy and Mather. In 2007, the commercial won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Commercial. DeGeneres began working with Cover Girl Cosmetics in September 2008, for which she has been criticized, as her animal-friendly values clash with Procter and Gamble's (the maker of Cover Girl Cosmetics) animal testing.[20] Her face is the focus of new Cover Girl advertisements starting in January 2009. The beauty campaign will be DeGeneres's first.[21]
American Idol

On September 9, 2009, it was confirmed that DeGeneres would replace Paula Abdul as a judge of the ninth season of American Idol. Her role started after the contestant auditions, at the beginning of "Hollywood Week".[22][23] It is reported that DeGeneres also signed a contract to be a judge on the show for at least five seasons.[24] She made her American Idol debut on February 9, 2010. On July 29, 2010, DeGeneres and Fox executives announced that the comedienne would be departing from the series after one season. In a statement, DeGeneres said that the series "didn't feel like the right fit for me".[25]
Eleveneleven Main article: eleveneleven

On May 26, 2010, Ellen announced on her show that she was starting her own record label entitled "eleveneleven". Ellen explained her choice of name, claiming that she often sees the number 11:11 when looking at her clocks, that she found Greyson on the 11th, and that the singer's soccer jersey has the number 11.[26] She mentioned that she had been looking for videos of performances on YouTube to start her label. The acts thus far signed to the label are Greyson Chance, Tom Andrews, and Jessica Simpson.[27]

Personal life
DeGeneres was in a relationship (19972000) with former Another World actress Anne Heche, who went on to marry cameraman Coley Laffoon.[28] From 2001 to 2004, DeGeneres and actress/director/photographer Alexandra Hedison were in a relationship. They appeared on the cover of The Advocate after their separation had already been announced to the media.[29] Since 2004, DeGeneres has had a relationship with former Ally McBeal and Arrested Development star Portia de Rossi. After the overturn of the same-sex marriage ban in California, DeGeneres announced on a May 2008 show that she and de Rossi were engaged,[30][31] and gave de Rossi a three-carat pink diamond ring.[32] They were married on August 16, 2008 at their home, with nineteen guests including their mothers.[32] The passage of Proposition 8 cast doubt on the legal status of their marriage but a subsequent Supreme Court judgment validated it because it occurred before November 4, 2008.[33][34] DeGeneres and de Rossi live in Beverly Hills, with three dogs and four cats,[35] and both are vegan.[36] DeGeneres served as campaign ambassador to Farm Sanctuary's Adopt-A-Turkey Project in 2010, asking people to start "a new tradition by adopting a turkey instead of eating one" at Thanksgiving.[37] On August 6, 2010, de Rossi filed a petition to legally change her name to Portia Lee James DeGeneres[38] The petition was granted on September 23, 2010.[39] In her book Love, Ellen, DeGeneres's mother Betty DeGeneres describes being initially shocked when her daughter came out as a lesbian, but has become one of her strongest supporters, an active member of Parents & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) and spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign's Coming Out Project. In 2007, Forbes estimated DeGeneres's net worth at US$65 million.[40]

Filmography
Yea r Film Role Herself Herself Coach Herself Short film Short film Documentary Notes

199 Arduous Moon 0 199 Wisecracks 1 199 Coneheads 3 199 Trevor

4 Ellen's Energy 199 Adventure 6 Mr. Wrong Goodbye Lover Dr. Dolittle Herself Martha Alston Sgt. Rita Pompano Prologue Dog Voice Short film

199 8

Cynthia 199 EDtv 9 The Love Letter Janet Hall Pauly Shore Is Dead Herself Voice Annie Award for Outstanding Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress NominatedChicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress NominatedMTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance Short film

200 3

Finding Nemo

Dory

200 My Short Film 4

Television Year

Herself

Film

Role Herself Margo Van Mete Nancy MacIntyre

Notes Comedy Special Episode: "The Bad Seed" Episode: "Let's Get Physicals" Episode: "Pilot" Episode: "The Heart

1988 1989 1992

Women of the Night Open House Laurie Hill

Thing" Episode: "Walter and Beverly" 1994 1998 1995 1998 Ellen Roseanne Mad About You Ellen DeGeneres: The Beginning If These Walls Could Talk 2 2001 2001 2001 2002 On the Edge Will & Grace The Ellen Show Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now MADtv 2003 present 2004 The Ellen DeGeneres Show E! True Hollywood Story Six Feet Under Joey Ellen's Really Big Show 2007 Sesame Street Ellen Morgan Dr. Whitman Nancy Bloom Herself Kal Operator Sister Louise Ellen Richmond Herself Herself Herself Herself Herself Herself Herself Herself Episode: "The Tutu Spell" (uncredited) Episode: "Parallel Play" Episode: "Joey and the Sex Tape" 109 episodes Episode: "The Blaming of the Shrew" Episode: "The Finale" Comedy special Segment: "2000" Segment: "Reaching Normal" Episode: "My Uncle The Car" 18 episodes Comedy special Episode: "9.3" TV show

2000

2003

2005

Forbes 20 Richest Women in Entertainment The Bachelorette 2007 2008 2008 American Idol

Herself Herself Herself Episode: "Idol Gives Back 2007" "Idol Gives Back 2008" Comedy special Comedy special

Ellen's Even Bigger Really Big Herself Show Ellen's Bigger, Longer & Wider Show Herself

2009

So You Think You Can Dance Guest Judge "Week 7 (July 22, 2009)" 2010 2010 American Idol The Simpsons Judge Herself Season 9 Episode: "Judge Me Tender"