Ellen DeGeneres has yet one more enemy in Hollywood.
Margaret Cho appeared on the most recent episode of “The Kelly Mantle Show” and spoke concerning the strained relationship she’s had with the man standup comic.
“Ellen was really weird and not nice to me for most of my career,” stated Cho, 56.
“I opened for her in the 1980s, when she was a headliner in comedy clubs, way before her big fame,” Cho recalled of DeGeneres, 67. “So then later, when I would do her talk show in the 2000s, she acted like we just met.”
Cho added: “And I’m like, ‘B–ch, what?’ Like that’s weird. We go way back. It’s so creepy and weird.”
“Also the other thing was David Bowie had been on [DeGeneres’] show and he was so excited that the night before that I had come to his show wearing this giant Chinese Emperor outfit,” Cho remembered. ” He was actually thrilled about it and he talked at size about it — and he or she minimize it out of the present. Which made me so mad.”
“The producer, who’s a really good friend of mine, had to call me and tell me, ‘I can’t believe she did this, but she cut it out of the show,’” Cho shared. “‘But you need to know that he was going on and on about your outfit. He loves you. God said your name.’”
Cho referred to as the alleged incident “so rude,” including, “I don’t know if it was personal, maybe it [cut] was for time. But still, I’m going to take it personally just because I decided to.”
The Submit has reached out to DeGeneres’ rep for remark.
Cho beforehand referred to as DeGeneres “scary” whereas discussing DeGeneres’ 2020 speak present poisonous office scandal on the “Hot Takes and Deep Dives” podcast.
“I think she definitely is scary. I’m still scared of Ellen,” stated Cho. “Everyone should be scared of Ellen.”
DeGeneres ended her eponymous speak present with Season 19 in Could 2022 following poisonous office claims.
In 2020, present and former staffers spoke anonymously about their alleged expertise on set of the speak present for a BuzzFeed Information report. She apologized to workers on the time and producers Ed Glavin, Kevin Leman and Jonathan Norman exited the present.
Final yr, within the remaining stand-up particular of her profession, DeGeneres touched on the controversies, claiming she was “kicked out of show business” after studies alleged the star wasn’t as pleasant in actual life as her on-air persona.
Like Cho, different stars together with Rosie O’Donnell and “The Bachelorette” alum Ali Fedotowsky have referred to as out DeGeneres for her alleged dangerous conduct through the years.
DeGeneres at present lives within the UK along with her spouse, Portia de Rossi, after fleeing the US following Donald Trump’s reelection.
