Gordon Ramsay Allegedly Banned From Show

Ellen DeGeneres is once more at the middle of bombshell allegations about her behavior behind the scenes of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” The longtime talk show host, who saw her daytime empire collapse in 2022 after reports of bullying and a toxic workplace environment, is being accused of more questionable conduct, including a brand new claim that involves celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. In keeping with the insider, Ramsay was allegedly banned from the show for nearly eight seasons after making a quip that rubbed Ellen DeGeneres the incorrect way.

In keeping with a former staffer who worked on the NBC talk show for over a decade, Ramsay was collaborating in a food demo when he bluntly criticized meat presented to him by DeGeneres.

“As soon as he bit in, he was like, ‘That is rubbish. That is disgusting,’” the staffer told the Every day Mail indicating he was not welcome back. “She didn’t just like the response. It was like eight seasons he didn’t come back for after.”

The insider also claimed that DeGeneres had a selected dislike of male employees, mentioning that she “burned through nine stage managers in a single season,” an unusually high turnover in comparison with other talk shows. “We had a sense she really didn’t like guys,” the staffer explained.

Other alleged examples of DeGeneres’ temper included firing a warm-up comedian for making a lighthearted joke about her riding a unicycle, and a production assistant who was let go after his golf cart briefly blocked DeGeneres’ automotive on the Warner Bros. lot.

“She might be dancing and laughing on camera, then through the break she’d be glaring into the crew area like a queen deciding who to execute,” the staffer said.

The most recent bombshells construct on a protracted history of troubling accusations that got here to a head in 2020, when BuzzFeed News published an exposé featuring one current and 10 former staffers who described “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” as a toxic workplace. All selected to stay anonymous, citing fear of retaliation from Ellen’s powerful team and others within the entertainment industry.

“That ‘be kind’ bullsh-t only happens when the cameras are on. It’s all for show,” one ex-employee bluntly told the outlet. “I do know they offer money to people and help them out, however it’s for show.”

Accounts included claims that staffers were fired after taking medical leave or bereavement days to attend family funerals, while others alleged managers instructed them never to talk to DeGeneres in the event that they saw her across the office. One worker said she eventually quit after enduring repeated comments about her race.

As stories of firings, misconduct, and DeGeneres’ alleged meanness spread across social media, the backlash snowballed. By the tip of 2020, three executive producers were ousted, and by 2022, NBC officially pulled the plug on the show after nearly twenty years on the air.

On the time of the BuzzFeed News exposé, executive producers Ed Glavin, Mary Connelly, and Andy Lassner issued a joint statement acknowledging the troubling accounts and taking responsibility for the work environment.

“Over the course of nearly twenty years, 3,000 episodes, and employing over 1,000 staff members, we now have strived to create an open, protected, and inclusive work environment,” the statement read. “We’re truly heartbroken and sorry to learn that even one person in our production family has had a negative experience. It’s not who we’re and never who we try to be, and never the mission Ellen has set for us.”

They added that the day-to-day operations of the show were their responsibility, not DeGeneres’ directly. “For the record, the day-to-day responsibility of the Ellen show is totally on us,” they continued. “We take all of this very seriously and we realize, as many on this planet are learning, that we want to do higher, are committed to do higher, and we are going to do higher.”

DeGeneres, who once earned $77 million annually from her talk show, insisted she was “shocked” to learn of staff complaints, later telling The Hollywood Reporter that the allegations were “eye-opening.”

“I believe that I learned quite a bit, and there have been some things that got here up that I used to be shocked and surprised by. It was eye-opening,” she said on the time. “But I just trust that that needed to occur.”

DeGeneres has since moved to England. She has not yet commented on these latest claims.