If we’re to consider current reviews, Ellen DeGeneres will not be a pleasant individual.
On digital camera, the host sports activities a pleasant grin and warmly chats to the viewers, in addition to her visitors.
Nonetheless, a former viewers member of the present has now come out to talk in opposition to DeGeneres, claiming that she solely smiles when the cameras are rolling.
Dana Dimatteo appeared on a 2018 episode of the hit discuss present within the viewers, however was chosen to participate in a recreation.
Dimatteo claimed that the Ellen whereas the present is being taped is completely totally different to the Ellen throughout an ad-break, or extra merely, when the cameras aren’t rolling.
“Throughout industrial breaks, Ellen would get away of her ‘form’ character and sit moodily in silence on her sofa,” she revealed to The Sun, including that she was “not acknowledging anybody.”
“She didn’t say one phrase to the viewers except the cameras had been on,” she defined.
“She snapped out of her character the second the cameras stopped rolling.”
“My pal and I cherished the present and it took us so lengthy to get tickets,” Dana detailed of the occasion
“We flew all the way in which to Los Angeles from Chicago only for that.”
“We had been instructed by the producers that if we had been picked we weren’t allowed to be funnier or smarter than Ellen,” she elaborated:
“That she is the star and the comic, not us.”
“We had been instructed to behave in a really particular manner and to solely converse if she requested us a query,” Dana mentioned.
“They made us scream and soar round backstage as a check,” she added.
“It was fairly humiliating.”
Dana and one other visitor had been invited to take to the stage to play Make It Rain.
“As soon as the sport was over, we had been soaking moist so that they despatched us backstage,” Dana recalled.
“Then they simply left us there…we waited just about the entire present in our soaking moist garments for somebody to carry us dry issues to vary into,” she recalled.
“It was actually chilly and uncomfortable.”
“I didn’t take pleasure in myself on the present,” she shared.
“It’s a must to observe all these guidelines, you possibly can’t be your self. It’s a must to clap always and snort at issues that aren’t humorous.”
Ellen’s title has been within the media for all of the fallacious causes of late, and a Buzzfeed Information article quoting virtually a dozen workers bashing the poisonous office didn’t assist.
What we do know is that Ellen has apologized, nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient to cease Warner Media from investigating the present.
Paul Dailly is the Affiliate Editor for TV Fanatic. Observe him on Twitter.