By Mike_R on 11/16/2007 2:57 PM

Update: Ellen found a buyer for the Montecito house and she bought a new house. "Comedian Ellen DeGeneres has found a buyer for her $24 million Santa Barbara County estate and recently bought a furnished house in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The property in contract is her four-acre Montecito retreat. The 49-year-old talk-show host bought the compound just 14 months ago, paying $15.75 million, and made some improvements, local brokers said. The property includes a 1926 Mediterranean-style house, two guest houses, a tennis court and a pool. The deal's sale price could not be determined. Suzanne Perkins, of Sotheby's International Realty, has the listing.

Ms. DeGeneres also recently purchased the roughly 6,000-square-foot Beverly Hills home of Max Mutchnick, a co-creator of the hit sitcom "Will & Grace." Ms. DeGeneres knows Mr. Mutchnick, 42, from her guest-starring role on his sitcom. The sale price included many home furnishings and art, a person familiar with the deal said. The television producer bought...

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By Mike_R on 11/16/2007 10:46 AM

Ellen's Really Big Show was filmed yesterday and Wireimage.com has a bunch of (small) photos from the event. Click here to view them.

Make sure you watch her "Really Big Show" on Monday at 9/8c with a encore at 10:30/9:30c on TBS

By Mike_R on 11/15/2007 3:20 PM

Update: Here is another great article from a Santa Monica Mirror tv critic. Click here to read the article

Someone finally defendid Ellen for working during the strike. The Huffington Post has a great blog entry that talks about Ellen

"What Ellen is, is an individual responsible for keeping her television program on the air and securing the livelihoods of some 135 people she has on staff. One hundred and thirty-five people who would find themselves out of work, without paychecks and -- with both a strike on and a holiday season approaching -- not many prospects for making money."

Click here to read the full article.

By Mike_R on 11/13/2007 2:48 PM

Update: A segment about Ellen's visit to Deal or no Deal aired on her show today and she wore a dress! Here's the video

I can't wait to see the whole episode of Deal or No Deal!

-------------------- Original post from 10-29-2007 ----------------- Ellen will be on of the 26 brief case models on Deal Or No Deal scheduled to air in January of 2008.  "Ellen is a great supporter of the show and we were looking for our first celebrity model. Who better to do that than Ellen?" says Libby Hansen, It's not clear whether or not Ellen will wear a dress (I doubt she will) but she has a agreed to be one of the models and she knows that they wear dresses. Will DeGeneres really wear a dress? "Ellen knows our show and knows the kind of sparkly, sequined dresses our spokesmodels wear, and she's agreed to be [one of them]," Hansen says a bit...

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By Mike_R on 11/13/2007 2:33 PM

I just got off the phone with some one from the show and they said that Ellen is not taping in NY on Nov. 19 and 20 like she had originally planed but I don't know if she will tape in NY a different day (although that is highly unlikely cause it takes a lot of prep.).

More details to come...

By Mike_R on 11/12/2007 10:54 PM

USA Today just posted a article about Portia and in the article Portia talks about adoption

"It depends when you ask us. A few months ago, we were thinking about it. I wouldn't want to say never, but at this point, it's not something I think we're going to do," she says. "But there are times when I think I'd be really selfish to not adopt a child so we'd share our life with somebody, a little child that really needs a home."

Click here to read the whole article

By Mike_R on 11/11/2007 5:58 PM

"Entertainment Tonight" Claim to have video of Iggy at his new house that will air tomorrow and Tuesday.

"Save your tears, Ellen. Iggy's doing fine without you.

The 5-month-old Affenpinscher puppy mix whose adoption odyssey triggered an on-air meltdown by talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres is thriving in a new home, TV's "Entertainment Tonight" reports tomorrow and Tuesday.

"Iggy's doing famously, very well and in a loving home," Keith Fink, a lawyer for the pet-adoption agency that placed Iggy with DeGeneres and partner Portia de Rossi on Sept. 20 told ET.

After the celebs gave Iggy to a pal, breaking their contract, the agency promptly took back the pup.

"He's with a family that is loving and takes great care of him," Fink said.

Fink wouldn't elaborate on who's caring for Iggy "because of the concern of the threats."

After DeGeneres' weepy TV appeal for Iggy to be returned to her friend and the friend's children, adoption agency Moms and Mutts reportedly got...

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By Mike_R on 11/11/2007 2:02 PM

The "Writer's Guild of America East" issued a press release saying Ellen wasn't welcome in New York and that they would protest when she filmed in N.Y. and then late Friday evening the "American Federation of Television and Radio Artists" released a statement that supported and defended Ellen. 
Click here to read a article about the statements.

By Mike_R on 11/9/2007 5:26 PM

Ellen's is being criticized for doing her show even though there is a strike but for some reason none of the critics are criticizing Oprah, Live with Regis and Kelly, Tyra, The View and practically all of the show in prime time even though they are all still airing new episodes. The critics also didn't mention that by continuing to tape Ellen is giving all 135 of her non-writing staff paychecks and if Ellen doesn't continue to tape her show she violates her contract!

By Mike_R on 11/7/2007 10:57 PM

Today Ellen had a conference call with reporters to promote her upcoming TBS variety show but alot of the questions were about the strike not her variety show. Here's a good article about what she said in the conference call. Click here for the article