It’s being speculated that perhaps Ellen DeGeneres doggie dramas aren’t caused by the mean old adoption agency yanking poor Iggy out of the arms of a 12-year-old, but perhaps maybe because girlfriend Portia deRossi is leaving her dog-dumping ass.
According to multiple sources, [Ellen’s] really in pain because her three-year romance with actress Portia de Rossi is all but over.
“Ellen would never have broken down like that on TV if things were right in her home life,” one source tells Star.
Portia has been telling Ellen she’s very unhappy at home,” says a second source….”When it comes down to it, she wants to be with someone younger and hotter. She wants out, but Ellen has been begging her to stay. Portia is really everything in this world to her.”
You should have kept the puppy, Ellen. This way you wouldn’t be so lonely. Surely there’s another closeted Hollywood lesbian waiting in the wings to come out and be your girl?
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Well, well, well. It appears Ellen DeGeneres isn’t as big a victim as she’d like us to believe. In fact, she has a history of adopting dogs only to give them away when she gets tired of them. Page Six is reporting this morning about how when producer Kerri Randles gave Ellen a dog, she called a couple of months later to find out how the pup was doing only to learn the talk show host had given the dog away to a member of her staff. “She may have had it for much less time than that. I only say two months because that’s when I called to check on the dog and found out she no longer had it,” Kerri said. “I was totally shocked. I thought she was out of her mind.”
And there’s more. Kerri called Ellen “neurotic and crazy.”
Randles said DeGeneres seemed a perfect pet owner at first, but she quickly discovered the daytime TV hostess was “neurotic and crazy.”
When Randles took Stormy to NBC studios to meet DeGeneres, she was “drilled” for four hours by the star, her assistants and the crew.
“Everyone on the show and in her entourage got themselves all involved,” Randles told Page Six’s Marianne Garvey. “They were all coming into the dressing room, playing with the dog as if it were a new extension of Ellen.”
DeGeneres finally decided to keep the dog for a few nights to see if he’d fit into her home. She suggested that Randles take the dressing room next door to “tell the dog privately that she’d be going home with Ellen.”
“I told her I’d already had a talk with the dog. She didn’t get my jokes,” said Randles.
When she called to check on the pup a few days later, DeGeneres told her she’d decided to keep it. “She acted like she was keeping it for life,” Randles recalled.
DeGeneres’ rep did not return our calls.
On his Sirius radio show last week, shock jock Howard Stern suggested Ellen has regifted several dogs throughout the years. Guess people will think twice before passing on their puppies now.
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Cry me a river, Ellen DeGeneres. All of this Iggy business has Ellen feeling so sad she canceled tapings of her show for Friday and Monday. Poor thing needs a long weekend to recover. Fans will be rewarded with reruns.
Mmm hmmm. She’s just laying low because she screwed up by calling all of this attention on herself and she knows it. She’s hoping that by Tuesday it will all have blown over and she won’t have to talk about it anymore.
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Really, I can’t believe how much bandwidth and air time we’re all wasting on this Ellen DeGeners dog thing. Here’s the deal. Ellen signed and agreement, and she broke the agreement, plain and simple. Anyone who has ever adopted a pet from a shelter knows there’s more involved in it than writing out a check and going home. Hell, when we adopted our two kittens we had to wait a week, along with several other applicants, to be sure we were the right family. I get it.
There are rules and Ellen broke them, no matter how well-intentioned. And I do believe she’s using her fame and her show to bring undue attention to this matter because she’s a little pissed off. An abuse of power when you think about it.
But I digress…
The shelter that took the dog back, Mutts and Moms, found little Iggy a new home. The owners of the of shelter are reported to be home and “distraught” over threats received from Ellen’s posse over this whole incident. After Ellen went on the air on Tuesday to weep over poor Iggy (this is me rolling my eyes) a spokesperson for Mutts and Moms said,”She (Marina) is not going to give them the dog,” said Fink, who is not legally representing the owners but is authorized to speak on their behalf.
“She doesn’t think this is the type of family that should have the dog. She is adamant that she is not going to be bullied around by the Ellen DeGenereses of the world … They are using their power, position and wealth to try to get what it is they want.”
I hear ya.
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Poor Ellen DeGeneres. Her new puppy just wouldn’t get along with the cats. So she gave it to a friend. Except that the pet adoption agency cried breach of contract, because she was to return the puppy to the shelter and not give it away. So they took the doggie back and Ellen cried on the air. Mean, mean dog people.
Except maybe Ellen’s people aren’t so nice either.
But Keith Fink, a lawyer for Mutts & Moms, tells Page Six’s Marianne Garvey it’s all an act. Behind the scenes, DeGeneres’ publicist was calling the small agency and threatening it, says Fink, who played a vicious voice-mail message for us:
“This is Kelly Bush. We are filing a legal case against you. We are going to be contacting the media. This is not going to be good for your store or your organization. You did not do the right thing. You need to call back. There is no reason for you to take this dog. Please call back before this gets further out of hand.”
“Ellen’s lying,” said Fink. “She is using her power and her access to the media to destroy this agency in the media. This is a woman who has signed many seven-figure contracts. She knows what she signed.”
According to Fink, after yesterday’s show aired, Ellen’s fans bombarded Mutts & Moms’ owner, Marina Batkis, with threatening calls to “burn her house down.” One fan said, “You slimeball bitches are not worthy of living. How dare you make Ellen cry. Give Iggy back!”
Bush denied making threats. “I have not left any threatening messages at all,” she said. “The agency threatened to go to the media and I said that wouldn’t be a good idea. I told them there’s just no need to escalate this . . . They started this by wanting to take it public. I was the one who said, ‘Let’s talk about this.’ “
I’m gonna go pop me some popcorn. This is going to get good.
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