Overview

• DeGeneres told a Cheltenham audience that she and Portia de Rossi moved to the Cotswolds permanently after Trump’s November 2024 re-election, abandoning their original part-time plan.
• She praised life in rural England for its cleaner environment, polite communities and simpler, charming villages compared with the United States.
• Flooding at their first £15 million Cotswolds farmhouse earlier this year prompted the couple to buy a second nearby mansion.
• Their initial home, which includes its own pub, has been privately listed for sale to a ‘right buyer’ rather than marketed publicly.
• Fearing moves by US religious groups and some lawmakers to reverse same-sex marriage, DeGeneres says they are looking into a UK wedding ceremony.