No sooner did the
California supreme court give the go-ahead to same-sex
marriage than Ellen DeGeneres, arguably pop culture’s
most popular lesbian, announced that she would be
getting hitched with her longtime partner, actress
Portia de Rossi.
No sooner did the
California supreme court give the go-ahead to same-sex
marriage than Ellen DeGeneres, arguably pop culture’s
most popular lesbian, announced that she would be
getting hitched with her longtime partner, actress
Portia de Rossi.
In a statement on
Advocate.com Thursday, DeGeneres joked that she was
registered at Crate & Barrel -- she’s not, we
checked -- but in a clip from the episode of The
Ellen DeGeneres Show that was scheduled to
broadcast Friday, the talk-show host announced the
news to her studio audience -- which included a beaming De
Rossi.
“This is
very exciting, I gotta say,” began DeGeneres.
“Yesterday, if you haven't heard, the
California supreme court overturned a ban on gay
marriage.” After the audience cheers, she continued,
“So I would like to say, for the first time, I
am announcing I am getting married,” which made
the crowd go berserk and give her a standing ovation. After
the hollering dies down, DeGeneres joked,
“Thank you. I'll tell you who the lucky guy is
soon.”
Blinking back
tears, she added, “If I'm this emotional now just
saying it, I can't imagine how that’s gonna be.
It’s something that of course we've wanted to
do and we wanted it to be legal and we're just very
excited.”
No date has been
announced for the nuptials, and representatives for
DeGeneres and De Rossi had no further comment, although De
Rossi released this statement to The Advocate
earlier this week: “Love is the most personal
of human emotions. I am deeply grateful to the state
of California for allowing all of its citizens the right to
express their love equally under the law.” (Alonso
Duralde, The Advocate)
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