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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