Ellen DeGeneres has been mercilessly mocked over her Kind Science skincare line advert four years after she was canceled amid a toxic workplace scandal.
The former host, 66, whose daytime talk show ended in 2022 following allegations of intimidation, racism and sexual misconduct, appeared in an advert alongside wife Portia de Rossi, 51, in which she waxed lyrical about the anti-aging benefits of her line.
However DeGeneres, who had previously ended each show by telling viewers to ‘be kind to one another’ was roasted by social media followers for ‘not being kind to her staff’.
One follower wrote: ‘Yeah.. kind of a jerk’ while a second typed: ‘But her staff said the opposite.’
Others penned: ‘The rumors have floated around forever how rude she is, how she treated people.’
‘Yeah and I’m the queen’, ‘If you have to go out of your way to tell us…’ and ‘When you feel you have to tell me that, I don’t believe you.’
Ellen DeGeneres has been mercilessly mocked over her Kind Science skincare line advert four years after she was canceled amid a toxic workplace scandal
The former host, 66, whose daytime talk show ended in 2022 following allegations of intimidation, racism and sexual misconduct, appeared in an advert alongside wife Portia de Rossi, 51, in which she waxed lyrical about the anti-aging benefits of her line
‘Yeah kind…of a nasty human being.’
The video comes after DeGeneres’ move to the UK following Donald Trump’s presidential election win.
DeGeneres’ scandal was sparked by a single tweet penned by comedian Kevin T. Porter in March 2020 asking people for the ‘most insane stories you’ve heard about Ellen being mean,’ which amassed 2,600 replies.
Four months later, BuzzFeed News published an exposé featuring one current and 10 former employees of the Louisiana-born funnywoman’s former self-titled daytime talk show alleging racism, workplace bullying, and sexual harassment.
By August 2020, WarnerMedia had launched an internal investigation, Ellen had issued a formal apology to her 255 employees, and executive producers Ed Glavin, Kevin Leman, and Jonathan Norman were all fired from the show.
DeGeneres – who also apologized to fans on air – broadcast her final episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show on May 26, 2022 after 19 seasons.
She later branded it a ‘coordinated misogynistic’ attack on her and she has mostly stayed out of the spotlight since the talk show’s finale aired on May 26, 2022.
DeGeneres made history as the first lead actor in a series to come out as gay while starring in her own self-named sitcom Ellen, which aired from 1996-1998.
However DeGeneres, who had previously ended each show by telling viewers to ‘be kind to one another’ was roasted by social media followers for ‘not being kind to her staff’
The comedian and her wife Portia recently moved to England (pictured 2023)
After that series ended, the actress made occasional guest appearances on shows such as Will and Grace and Edtv.
Her voice work as Dory in the hit Disney/Pixar animated adventure Finding Nemo helped put the shine back on her star in 2003, the same year she launched The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
She returned to comedy this year with Netflix special For Your Approval., which saw her joke about her Hollywood exile.
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