Dakota Johnson created ‘most awkward second in Ellen historical past’ after calling her out reside on air

The lifetime of a chat present host is without end fraught with the hazard that the dialog may take a flip for the awkward whereas an enormous variety of persons are watching.

One of many all time corridor of fame awkward moments has received to be the time Ellen DeGeneres known as out Dakota Johnson for not giving her a birthday celebration invite, solely to be informed she had been invited and did not present up.

Johnson had been on Ellen a number of occasions earlier than and making one other look in 2019 to advertise her movie The Peanut Butter Falcon, however no person remembers that bit due to what occurred subsequent.

DeGeneres wished Johnson a ‘completely happy belated birthday’ and requested her ‘how was the get together, I wasn’t invited’, solely to get known as out by the film star with the cameras skilled on them.

“Truly no, that is not the reality Ellen, you have been invited,” Johnson mentioned as she set the document straight.



“Final 12 months, final time I used to be on the present final 12 months you gave me a bunch of s**t about not inviting you however I did not even know you wished to be invited.”

Ellen requested again ‘who does not need to be invited to a celebration’, with Johnson replying that she ‘did not even know you preferred me’ and the speak present host insisting she did like her.

“However I did invite you and also you did not come, so…” Johnson mentioned, with Ellen asking her ‘are you positive’ and the actor being very sure she’d invited DeGeneres to her birthday celebration.

“Ask all people, ask Jonathan your producer.”

It turned out that Ellen had been invited to the get together in any case and a member of her workforce defined she could not make it as a result of ‘you have been out of city’, with the host quipping ‘oh yeah, I had that factor’.

Physique language professional Blanca Cobb claimed that DeGeneres had been feeling uneasy within the alternate and mentioned she might have been ‘self soothing’ to reassure herself in the course of the encounter.

The professional mentioned that Ellen appeared ‘stunned’ that the dialog had taken such a flip, whereas Johnson had been ‘honest, candid, and ahead within the encounter.

The awkward second is without doubt one of the first issues individuals bear in mind about Ellen, with the present ending in 2022 a few years after it was hit with claims of being a poisonous office as former workers claimed to Buzzfeed that it was ‘dominated by worry’.

In an e mail to employees Ellen mentioned that motion can be taken to ‘appropriate the problems’, whereas in an announcement WarnerMedia mentioned ‘the first findings of the investigation indicated some deficiencies associated to the present’s day-to-day administration’.