Biography of Ellen DeGeneres
She held a wide variety of jobs until she turned to stand-up comedy, making her bones at small clubs and coffeehouses before working her way up to emcee Clyde’s Comedy Club by 1981. Her father, insurance salesman Elliot De Generes and her mother Elizabeth, a real-estate agent, were divorced when she was 16 years old. She made TV history in April 1997 when her character, and DeGeneres herself personally, revealed that she was a lesbian. Beginning in the early 1980s, she toured nationally and was named the funniest person in America after winning a competition sponsored by the cable network Showtime. However, the show was canceled the following season due to declining ratings, after which DeGeneres returned to the stand-up circuit.


Ellen DeGeneres trivia

  • Split with her fiance Bob Kelty in (April 2003). The two were planning a wedding for the year.
  • Gave birth to their third child son Jaxson Ronald Samuel weighed in 7 lbs. 5 oz. and measured 21 inches.
  • Produces a R & B female group called “Assorted Flavors”
  • Dislikes flying so much that she has certain rituals she must do: like always board the plane with her right foot first. (From an April 2004 appearance on Conan O’Brien.)

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