{"id":50757,"date":"2021-03-28T22:18:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T05:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=50757"},"modified":"2021-03-28T22:18:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T05:18:12","slug":"ellen-degeneres-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/03\/28\/ellen-degeneres-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen DeGeneres&#8217; Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s other trouble in daytime.&nbsp; According to <em>Nielsen <\/em>(the ratings company \u2013 not <strong>Brigitte<\/strong>), <strong><em>Ellen<\/em><\/strong> has lost roughly one MILLION viewers!&nbsp; It bears noting that her season premiere back in September was the highest-rated episode in more than four years.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because everyone wanted to see how <strong>Ellen <\/strong>would address the \u201ctoxic workplace\u201d claims.&nbsp; They came, they saw, they tuned out.&nbsp; And the ratings plummeted.&nbsp; Troublesome times.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recently, it was <strong>Portia DeRossi DeGeneres <\/strong>who was in trouble.&nbsp; You would already know this story if you were still watching <em>Ellen<\/em>.&nbsp; This is how <strong>DeGeneres <\/strong>opened her show last Tuesday:&nbsp; \u201cHow was everybody\u2019s weekend?&nbsp; Anybody else have to rush their wife to the emergency room for an appendectomy?&nbsp; Anybody?&nbsp; No?&nbsp; Just me?\u201d&nbsp; Yes, just her.&nbsp; One night, the couple went to bed early.&nbsp; Ellen awoke to find Portia \u201con the floor on all fours\u201d.&nbsp; My first thought was DeRossi was in the mood for a spirited game of leapfrog \u2013 because, I must confess, I\u2019m not well-versed in the art of lesbian sex.&nbsp; Turns out, it was neither sexual nor amphibial.&nbsp; Ellen drove Portia to the hospital, but couldn\u2019t go in with her due to <em>Covid <\/em>restrictions.&nbsp; The next morning, she got a call that they\u2019d have to slice Portia open like a sturgeon.&nbsp; Bing, bang, boom \u2013 appendix out.&nbsp; See all the excitement you miss when don\u2019t tune in?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s other trouble in daytime.&nbsp; According to Nielsen (the ratings company \u2013 not Brigitte), Ellen has lost roughly one MILLION viewers!&nbsp; It bears noting that her season premiere back in September was the highest-rated episode in more than four years.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because everyone wanted to see how Ellen would address the \u201ctoxic workplace\u201d claims.&nbsp; They<\/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-50757","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\/50757","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=50757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50758,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50757\/revisions\/50758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}