In June, Ellen DeGeneres commenced her Ellen’s Final Stand… Up tour, planning to cease in numerous cities whereas she addresses her public cancelation after her present confronted allegations of sexual misconduct and a poisonous office atmosphere. However now, it’s being reported that DeGeneres has pulled the plug on some performances, together with exhibits in Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle, and Chicago.
In keeping with Ticketmaster, tickets are now not out there for these occasions. “Sadly, the Occasion Organizer has needed to cancel your occasion,” it says in an announcement on the web site. “You don’t have to do a factor. We’ll subject a refund to the unique methodology of fee used at time of buy, as quickly as funds are acquired from the Occasion Organizer. It ought to seem in your account inside 14-21 days.”
Representatives for DeGeneres and Reside Nation didn’t instantly reply to Rolling Stone’s request for remark. There are nonetheless tickets out there on the web site for different dates.
Again in April, DeGeneres began performing her stand-up routine to small audiences in Los Angeles after hinting that she was engaged on new materials. DeGeneres has opened up about her former discuss present, her time away from the highlight, and the way she says she obtained “kicked out of present enterprise” twice — as soon as when she got here out on nationwide tv in her self-titled Nineteen Nineties sitcom, and a second time in 2020 “for being imply.”
“The ‘be type’ lady wasn’t type,” she mentioned. “I turned this one-dimensional character who gave stuff away and danced up steps. Have you learnt how onerous it’s to bop up steps? Would a imply particular person dance up steps? Had I ended my present by saying, ‘Go fuck your self,’ folks would’ve been pleasantly shocked.”
On the time, DeGeneres advised the viewers that she was going to movie a Netflix particular when she went on tour, which Netflix confirmed in Might.
“To reply the questions everyone seems to be asking me – Sure, I’m going to speak about it. Sure that is my final particular. Sure, Portia actually is that fairly in actual life,” DeGeneres mentioned in a press launch.
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The previous few years have been tough for DeGeneres. Her public picture took a success in 2020 following a collection of reviews by BuzzFeed Information by which staff at her long-running Ellen DeGeneres Present alleged racism, sexual misconduct, and intimidation by the hands of govt producers. Three prime producers had been fired within the fallout, and DeGeneres issued an on-air apology. (Whereas she said that she had been unaware of the poisonous work tradition, she acknowledged that “I’m able of privilege and energy and […] I take duty for what occurs at my present.”)
Nonetheless, the present — and her recognition — appeared to not recuperate. After 19 seasons, The Ellen DeGeneres Present got here to an finish in Might 2022. Since then, DeGeneres has largely laid low, save for a 2023 Discovery Channel documentary, Saving the Gorillas: Ellen’s Subsequent Journey, and a few routine social media exercise.