As you’ve most likely heard by now, Ellen DeGeneres recently announced that she’s ending her award-winning talk show after 19 years , as confirmed by a statement given to The Hollywood Reporter last week. The cancellation came after a year of toxic workplace allegations and misconduct at the hands of Ellen and her executive staff.
On Sunday night, the show’s cancellation is getting mocked at the In Memoriam segment of the MTV Movie & TV Awards.
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Sunday night’s MTV Movie & TV Awards boasted it was “unscripted” and let’s just say it truly lived up to its name.
In a moment that will go down in savage TV history, The Ellen DeGeneres Show was included in the In Memoriam segment.
As we all know by now, Ellen announced her show was ending after 19 seasons last week.
In a statement given to The Hollywood Reporter Ellen explained why she was leaving the show and insisted it had nothing to do with the toxic workplace claims.
“I was going to stop after season 16,” she explained to the publication.
“That was going to be my last season and they wanted to sign for four more years and I said I’d sign for maybe for one. They were saying there was no way to sign for one.”
“So, we [settled] on three more years and I knew that would be my last. That’s been the plan all along,” she added.
“And everybody kept saying, even when I signed, ‘You know, that’s going to be 19, don’t you want to just go to 20? It’s a good number.’ So is 19.”
She went on to explain she didn’t feel the show was a challenge anymore.
“When you’re a creative person, you constantly need to be challenged – and as great as this show is, and as fun as it is, it’s just not a challenge anymore.”
A few days later, Ellen appeared on the *TODAY* show to further explain her decision.
When asked by Savannah Guthrie if she was leaving the show due to the toxic workplace allegations, Ellen replied : “If it was why I was quitting, I would have not come back this year.”
“I really did think about not coming back, because it was devastating.”
She continued: “It started with attacks on me and attacking everything that I stand for and believe in and built my career around … I am a kind person. I am a person who likes to make people happy.”
“I don’t know how I could have known when there’s 225 employees here and there are a lot of different buildings,” she explained. “Unless I actually stayed here until that last person goes home at night.”
“It’s my name on the show, so clearly it affects me, and I have to be the one to stand up and say this can’t be tolerated,” she added.
Naturally, this decision was an easy target for the MTV Movie Awards Sunday night, who used Ellen’s departure as material for their In Memoriam section
“I’d now like to take a somber-slash-awkward moment to acknowledge all that we’ve lost in the world of unscripted entertainment this year,” host Nikki Glaser said in the moments leading to the mock tribute.
A black and white picture of Ellen appeared on the screen shortly after with the words “Ellen’s Reign of Terror” written alongside the dates 2003-2021.
Of course, 2003 was the first year *The Ellen Show* was on air, and 2021 marks the year she announced her show was ending.
Other moments mentioned in the “In Memoriam” segment included The Bachelor’s Chris Harrison, who stepped down as host after making racially insensitive comments, and Real Housewives of New Jersey star Joe Giudice, who was deported after he was released from prison.
Of course, the whole thing was done in fun, but it was *super* shady and I absolutely loved it!
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