Ellen DeGeneres reportedly bought a $US27 million ($A38 million) California mansion, just 14 months after she supposedly fled to the UK after Donald Trump’s return to power as US president.
But an insider told People that DeGeneres isn’t moving back to the US, but will be splitting her time between Montecito, California and the UK.
“She’s not moving back to the US but will continue to split her time between both the UK and Montecito,” the insider said.
The comedian had purchased a $US14 million ($A20 million) farmhouse in Cotswolds, England, about a 160km drive northwest of London in June 2024 — several months after Mr Trump retook office after a four-year absence.
She later moved from that residence to a different glass-walled mansion in the same town in order to accommodate wife Portia de Rossi’s horses.
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Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi. Picture: Todd Williamson/E! Entertainment/NBCUniversal via Getty Images
DeGeneres “quit” America after President Donald Trump stepped back into power. Picture: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Despite DeGeneres’ public comments about leaving the US, a real estate source told People the 68-year-old former TV show host and her actor wife have been “missing the California weather and horse scene” since moving across the pond.
“Portia loves polo and her horses,” they added.
DeGeneres was spotted shopping for a Montecito home late last month on the same day she was supposed to be participating in the “no work, no school, no shopping” movement in protest of ICE.
Locals in the Cotswolds area told People they haven’t seen DeGeneres “in ages” and that she hadn’t been in a local pub for “several months”.
But a different source said DeGeneres had been spotted frequently in the village over the summer.
DeGeneres confirmed in July 2025 her move to the UK was motivated by Mr Trump’s election.
She told a crowd at Cheltenham’s Everyman theatre that they “got here the day before the election,” DeGeneres recalled, “and woke up to lots of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, ‘He got in.’ … And we’re like, ‘We’re staying here’.”
At the time, she said life there was “absolutely beautiful”.
Portia de Rossi stands on a stone path, photographing a double rainbow. Picture: ellendegeneres/Instagram
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi posing for a selfie outdoors. Picture: ellendegeneres/Instagram
The former Ellen host is fond of flipping houses for a profit and is a real estate aficionado. She reportedly tried to sell her original UK farmhouse for $US30 million ($A45 million), but has been unsuccessful.
The Daily Mail reported the house is close to selling after she slashed several million off her original price.
DeGeneres has remained politically active, saying last month that she was “sorry” for the Minneapolis ICE surge.
“I just wanted to say I am so sorry for what is happening in Minneapolis and our country, really, but specifically Minneapolis right now,” DeGeneres said in a video.
“Because it’s where I shot my last stand-up special, and everybody there couldn’t have been more lovely.”
Parts of this story first appeared in the New York Post and was republished with permission.
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