Ellen can’t seem to get a break.
Following the cancelation of her long-running talk show, The Ellen Degeneres Show, after allegations of a toxic work environment surfaced throughout the summer of 2020, the funny lady has sustained yet another career blow.
NBC just announced it will end her game show, Ellen’s Game of Games, after four seasons.
Deadline reports that Ellen’s Game of Games, which debuted in 2017, lost a major portion of its audience last year. Though the trade website doesn’t offer a reason behind the ratings drop, we’d be remiss not to notice that it coincides roughly with those allegations of nasty on-set behavior made against DeGeneres and other members of her production team.
Following the explosive accusations, DeGeneres offered an apology to the staff of The Ellen Degeneres Show. Still, NBC opted not to renew her contract, therefore indicating that the 2021-2022 season would be the talk show’s last.
Previously, Game of Games had been a major draw for NBC, ranking as the network’s top prime time game show in 2019. That show will wrap when the current season ends later this year.
As a final note, Deadline also reports that there is a chance Game of Games could be revived. The website points out that the NBC reality competition The Biggest Loser hit the network chopping block in 2016 only to get the revival treatment three years later on the USA Network.
So maybe there’s hope yet?
Related: Caitlyn Jenner accuses Ellen of making everyone think she’s an a**hole
nitejonboy
Well she can go home and cry into her piles of money.
Robert-in-Seattle
Yeah…have absolutely no sympathy for her. Her actions speak for themselves.
Sanjo
That’s too had after all the facial enhancements she obviously had done.
rangerwilcox
looks like she and her distant cousin Madonna went to the same place to get their “rejuvenation”.
whateverokok
What a hack job this site does. Ellen was not cancelled. She chose to end the show after this season. I’m not sure why y’all want to tear down one of your own. But then that’s par for the course.
Openminded
I won’t argue this site’s performance, but Ellen is basically another example of being told to “quit before being fired”. If her behavior is an example of “your own”, then I don’t want to be included in this group any longer. Game of Games only highlighted her delight in watching other’s suffer. I usually cringed at her delight on the Ellen show when people were put in games that made them stressed. She obviously enjoyed thrusting this pain on people so much that she made a whole show about it. I call it social bullying. She’s not brave enough to actually cause physical harm, but she sure enjoys mentally abusing others, all the while laughing.
s b
NO, it was cancelled.
Cam
@whateverokok, You know why it was cancelled. Nice try.
@Openminded, sweetie, you already got busted multiple times for being another screename for the right wing troll account, and after you do, you always come in and try to post a few reasonable sounding comments so you can go back to trolling. You aren’t subtle.
Openminded
Cam, never claimed to be subtle, just expressing MY opinion. If you want subtle, try this: Go F@ck yourself.
mecmass
whateverokok:
“What a hack job this site does. Ellen was not cancelled. She chose to end the show after this season. I’m not sure why y’all want to tear down one of your own. But then that’s par for the course.”
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I totally agree with you, Whateverokok. Reading through the ugly, nasty comments here serves only to further the bitchy queen stereotypes. LGBT people should be standing up for each other, not taking delight and gloating in another’s misfortune. Ellen was a pioneer in mainstreaming gay and lesbians and casting us in a light of normalcy at a time when not many were willing to stick their necks out for us. And she was so likeable that people saw her first as a person, before her sexuality.
And this is still America where people are supposed to be assumed innocent until proven guilty. Hell, Brett Kavanaugh was even put on the Supreme Court after having committed sexual assault and rape, with with several witnesses… but y’all are coming after Ellen with pitchforks, tar and feathers based on what, rumors, gossip and accusations by disgruntled former employees who know how deep her pockets are?
Cam
@mecmass
Still not being subtle about coming in and trying to back up your posts under other screenames are you?
Also, I love it when trolls pull the whole “Innocent until proven guilty” thing, when Ellen already APOLOGIZED for it. You aren’t presumed innocent when you’ve admitted you did it.
But nice try.
QJ201
Ellen’s style of comedy, scaring people, making fun of people and generally mean spirited joking isn’t funny once you learn what a b*tch she is
s b
Remember when long-haired, bearded Jared Leto was on, only to have Ellen DEMAND that he have, cut his hair, and only look like he did in a picture she flashed on the backround screen?
What a disgusting thing to do.
stonercharles
Thought the same thing after all that Ellen Show BS came out put her laughing and perspective in a whole new light…
johncp56
Oh come on the game show is great fun!!! there has to be more to this story
Ken A.
here is but you won’t read it here.
missvamp
that show is nothing but ellen being a sadist to poor people hoping to win money. i’m glad they are cancelling it.
SPEEDOSWIMMER
I absolutely DETEST mean-b1+ch ellen and her FAKE-MANUFACTURED for-show ‘personality’.
Zero-class.
Good RIDDANCE.
s b
AMEN!
Mack
I see a lot of “new” name trolls on the site. Guess someone is manufacturing trolls lately.
Ronbo
Stop right there! This is Cam’s move. Step off, beeach.
Cam
@Ronbo
I love how the right wing troll account is so enraged by the people that point it out, it always exposés itself whenever a post like this pops up. And it’s great to know I still live rent free in your head.
Openminded
Cam, I hear you still live rent free in your mama’s basement too. It’s truly amazing that anybody can be so filled with hatred as you obviously are.
Cam
@Openminded
I LOVE it when the troll messes up this badly. Seee, you came in to defend the OTHER screename of yours with this one. Under THIS screename, you’ve been trying to be more subtle so people wouldn’t see it was a troll, but you came in with the exact same type of insult you use under your other, harsher screenames, like Hank31.
The problem is, you think you’re a better troll than you are.
Fahd
Oof! is an Arabic interjection.
As for Ellen, like Covid, she’s not going to leave the scene all at once – although she should – how many lifetimes is she going to live off the interest of her fortune?
Jack
Let’s not forget the years of trailblazing from Ellen. She may have stumbled, but it’s nasty for Queerty to vilify her for kicks. You hacks wouldn’t be here without her. Queerty writers, we will be serving milk in saucers on the floor for you.
Jim
Trailblazing?? One really should education themselves on gay liberation and not just focus on the big media events who’s significance is over blown by the heteronormative media.
Cam
Abusing multiple people isn’t a “Stumble”.
winemaker
Five words: nobody gives a rats tukus! That said, Please deliver us from more updates on ellen degenerates continuing drama. Most people have lives and look at this as a new comedy reality show and take it with grain of salt. On the other hand, we all could use a laugh or two given what’s going on in the USA. BTW: I heard she was emigrating to Australia, what’s the delay? Guess she realized she couldn’t have made the obscene SHIT load of dough anywhere else but America which proves there are more stupid clueless people here in the USA that go for this kind of mind pablum
winemaker
ellen degenerate along with madonna need attitude adjustment and should take some of their dough and buy themselves personalities. They say money doesn’t buy class just a rich asshole. these two bitches exemplify this. Just what do gay people see in these so called ‘stars’?
Jim
Game of Games was just an opportunity for Ellen to bully willing victims.
She is NOT a nice person
Cam
The author here seems to be subtly defending Ellen.
Phrasing is as Ellen can’t get a break, no, Ellen brought this on herself, and adding in that Ellen apologized to her staff, no, she put all of the blame on random employees and pretended she had nothing to do with it when multiple witnesses said she was the cause.
Don’t rewrite history.
SoloMcDaniel
Prime time games shows, no matter how high the concept, have limited appeal. You can only watch somebody drop through a trap door so many times before you lost interest.
wiredpup
Look at all the homophobia here.
Ken A.
All these negative toxic comments about Ellen’s shows are laughable. I gave up on talk shows along time ago but until those employees of hers cried that working there was bad for their mental health–which I doubt–and they stayed. Probably got yelled at for staring at their phones instead of doing their jobs. Now they’re all going to be out of a job after the season ends. She ended the show, NBC didn’t cancel it.
Cam
Except for the fact that more than one celeb also backed up the comments.
Oooops. that doesn’t fit with your lie does it?
Aaron
It’s pretty obvious that Queerty trolls their own comment section to bump up their web traffic.