{"id":20371,"date":"2020-09-13T22:10:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T05:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=20371"},"modified":"2020-09-13T22:10:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T05:10:47","slug":"ellen-cleans-up-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/09\/13\/ellen-cleans-up-to-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Cleans Up To Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect everyone will be watching <strong>Ellen DeGeneres <\/strong>on September 21<sup>st<\/sup>.&nbsp; That\u2019s when she\u2019ll return to her studio on the <em>Warner <\/em>lot\u2026<em>sans <\/em>audience.&nbsp; \u201cI can\u2019t wait to get back to work and back to our studio.&nbsp; And, yes, we\u2019re gonna talk about it,\u201d alluding to reports that her show was a \u201ctoxic workplace\u201d \u2013 a scandal which culminated in the firing of three senior producers.&nbsp; How much she\u2019ll say remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, the bad news keeps coming.&nbsp; One of Ellen\u2019s former housekeepers spoke to the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> and has quite a tale to tell.&nbsp; \u201cBefore I took the position, people were warning me not to take it.&nbsp; I was told she had a very high turnover and that I should stay under the radar as much as possible, avoid as much direct contact with Ellen as possible.&nbsp; Working there was described as being more like a boot camp.\u201d&nbsp; The maid also claims DeGeneres would do sneaky things \u2013 like leave stray matchsticks behind doors or under cushions to ensure things were being cleaned regularly.&nbsp; When you polish the floor, you have to move the tree.&nbsp; If you can\u2019t do something right, don\u2019t do it at all!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect everyone will be watching Ellen DeGeneres on September 21st.&nbsp; That\u2019s when she\u2019ll return to her studio on the Warner lot\u2026sans audience.&nbsp; \u201cI can\u2019t wait to get back to work and back to our studio.&nbsp; And, yes, we\u2019re gonna talk about it,\u201d alluding to reports that her show was a \u201ctoxic workplace\u201d \u2013 a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20380,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20371\/revisions\/20380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}