A huge Hollywood star has confirmed she is “staying in the UK” for good after fleeing the United States because of Donald Trump. Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres moved with her wife Portia de Rossi to the Cotswolds when Trump was elected for a second term last year, taking over the White House from Joe Biden.

Ellen, 67, and Portia, 52, now live close to the likes of Jeremy Clarkson and Hugh Grant. Ellen confirmed to broadcaster Richard Bacon this weekend: “We got here the day before the election and woke up to lots of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, 'He got in'. And we're like, 'We're staying here’.

“[The UK is] absolutely beautiful. We're just not used to seeing this kind of beauty. The villages and the towns and the architecture - everything you see is charming and it's just a simpler way of life. It's clean. Everything here is just better - the way animals are treated, people are polite. I just love it here.”

Ellen saw snow for the first time ever when she initially moved to the UK in November 2024, fearing a reversal to same-sex marriage laws in the States.

She said: “The Baptist Church in America is trying to reverse gay marriage. They're trying to literally stop it from happening in the future and possibly reverse it. Portia and I are already looking into it, and if they do that, we're going to get married here.

“I wish we were at a place where it was not scary for people to be who they are. I wish that we lived in a society where everybody could accept other people and their differences.

“So until we're there, I think there's a hard place to say we have huge progress.”