Ellen DeGeneres framed herself as a victim and skated past allegations of fostering a toxic workplace on Thursday, while citing “creative” reasons for ending her long-running daytime show in interviews with Oprah Winfrey and TODAY‘s Savannah Guthrie.She also insisted she is not ending the show because of her tanking ratings or the widespread backlash against her, which she characterized as “too orchestrated.”“If it was why I was quitting, I would not have come back this year,” she told Guthrie on Thursday morning, echoing her words in an earlier interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
Ellen DeGeneres to end her talk show amid plunging ratings DeGeneres welcomed Winfrey onto her show for a friendly chat on Thursday, during which the pair.