Ever since she introduced she was packing up and leaving the US, there was some hypothesis over the rationale why Ellen DeGeneres would do it.
Final 12 months she introduced she was quitting Hollywood and we ‘will not be seeing her once more’ as soon as she wrapped up her comedy tour for Netflix.
When requested if she’d be taking up another tasks she mentioned: “Um, no. That is the final time you’re going to see me. After my Netflix particular, I’m achieved.”
Her speak present, which was very talked-about within the US, resulted in 2022 amid allegations of misconduct from DeGeneres in opposition to the employees working there.
“I take this very critically and I need to say I am so sorry to the folks it affected,” she had mentioned on air relating to the allegations.
“I realized that issues occurred that ought to by no means have occurred.
“If I’ve ever let somebody down, if I’ve ever damage their emotions, I’m sorry for that.”
On her tour she mentioned she ‘obtained kicked out of present enterprise for being imply’ however insisted she was ‘many issues, however I’m not imply’.
There have been different claims {that a} main motivator behind her transfer was Donald Trump’s election win final 12 months, which has been a motive why a number of different well-known faces have departed Hollywood.
Round that point a supply claimed to the Each day Mail that leaving the US was a ‘retirement’ for DeGeneres, as neither she nor spouse Portia de Rossi ‘have any tasks lined up’ and so they’d had their transfer to the UK deliberate earlier than the 2024 US election outcomes got here in.
Howdy spoke to an actual property dealer who mentioned one doable issue behind DeGeneres’ transfer which many have not mentioned.
CEO of Echo Fantastic Properties Jeff Lichtenstein mentioned that an ‘additional gross sales tax on mansions promoting for above $10 million’ in California has apparently motivated some celebrities to pack up and depart.
He mentioned: “Ellen will not be the one one, as Rosie O’Donnell and different Hollywood stars are doing the identical
“California has tremendous excessive revenue state taxes (14.4%). Mix that with capital features, it is an costly place to stay.”
DeGeneres and her spouse Portia de Rossi moved to the UK final 12 months and only recently bought certainly one of their homes within the US for $5.2 million (£4 million).
The actual property dealer mentioned that the home in Montecito can have netted the couple a tidy revenue since they purchased it in 2020 for $2.9 million (£2.2 million).
Nonetheless, nonetheless to promote is the $29 million (£22 million) mansion in Bel Air which should web fairly a big sum if a purchaser could be discovered.
