#SPOTTED: ELLEN DEGENERES & PORTIA DE ROSSI IN TORONTO FOR “ELLEN’S LAST STAND… UP” TOUR

Trailblazing Comedian Ellen DeGeneres brought her ELLEN’S LAST STAND… UP Tour Toronto, just as she’s closing the curtain on what has been a legendary career spanning Television, Film and Stage, touching the hearts of fans around the globe. The Tour has her looking back at her success, sharing comedic anecdotes with her signature brand of wit, culminating in two live tapings later this month in Minneapolis, to stream at a later date on Netflix.

Though DeGeneres has undergone some public scrutiny in recent years for which she has apologized, she has been quiet since her 33-time Emmy Award-winning The Ellen DeGeneres Show ended in 2022. Toronto fans showed-up in droves, selling-out her performance at Meridian Hall tonight, getting one last chance to see the icon live.

I’ve idolized DeGeneres for many, many years. Not only for her outstanding body of work – I religiously watched The Ellen DeGeneres Show for many years – but I have always admire her lending a voice to animal rights.

I’m simply overjoyed that I finally got to meet DeGeneres – donning a baseball cap with a maple leaf! – and her amazingly-gracious partner Portia de Rossi, and I’m glad I did, knowing that this might have been my last chance! Though her handlers were eager to rush her off, DeGeneres and de Rossi both insisted on coming out to take pictures with their fans. They are both everything I’ve always known they would be, and am anxiously waiting on this upcoming Netflix special. So appreciative of all DeGeneres has given us over the years, and I hope secretly this really isn’t her curtain call.

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Will remember this one for a long time. What a memory to have! A dream.come true!

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