Gaunt Ellen DeGeneres posts video supporting anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis

An ultra-slender Ellen DeGeneres offered her two cents about the recent turmoil occurring in Minneapolis on Sunday.

The roughly minute-long missive appeared to be filmed from the former talk show host’s $19million UK manse.

In it, DeGeneres, 67, took the time criticize United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, while praising protesters she said had ‘been hurt just for protesting.’

The remarks appeared to be a reference to 37-year-old Renee Good, a Minneapolis woman fatally shot by an ICE agent at a protest on January 7.    

The incident is currently under investigation and DeGeneres earlier in the day penned a post in Good’s honor. She wrote as a caption, ‘I’m so sad, and so angry, and so worried.’

In the subsequent video, a visibly gaunt – and emotional – DeGeneres elaborated on her grief.

‘Hey everybody I just wanted to say I am so sorry for what is happening in Minneapolis, and our country, really,’ she began.

‘But specifically Minneapolis right now, because it’s where I shot my last stand up special. And everybody there couldn’t have been more lovely.’

The comic continued: ‘I shot it there because they said it’s the happiest city in America, and I found that to be true.’

‘So my thoughts and my prayers are going out to everyone, and I’m proud of everyone who’s protesting peacefully, and I am sorry for anyone who has been hurt just for protesting, for doing what you should be doing.    

‘Anyway, just sending love.’

An accompanying caption saw DeGeneres tell the city of Minneapolis ‘I love you.’

She left the US with longtime wife Portia De Rossi in late 2024, shortly after Donald Trump’s election win.

The pair have called a lavish seven-bedroom estate in the Cotswolds home ever since. 

Late last year, it was reported that the miserable British weather had driven the couple back to California and they were seen shopping in the Golden State over Christmas. 

Claims that DeGeneres was a domineering diva during her daytime talk heyday, however, have managed to follow her across the pond.

The Ellen DeGeneres show ran from 2003 until 2022. It was canceled shortly after claims of on-set bullying emerged.   

DeGeneres was finally exposed after several staffers spoke to BuzzFeed in 2020 about the awful atmosphere behind the scenes of her show.

Workers said they’d been fired for taking bereavement leave and after taking sick leave following a suicide attempt.

A tidal wave of allegations followed and personal anecdotes about the star’s alleged meanness spread like wildfire on social media.

Three top producers were fired over claims they’d kept a ‘choke hold’ on staff complaints that prevented them from being escalated.

DeGeneres claimed to have been shocked about bullying on her show while speaking to The Hollywood Reporter after her cancellation.

‘I think that I learned a lot, and there were some things that came up that I was shocked and surprised by. It was eye-opening, but I just trust that that had to happen,’ she said at the time.

Her last standup special, Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval, was filmed in Minneapolis two years later – two months before Trump’s win.

The recent unrest in the city, meanwhile, can be traced back a December YouTube video from conservative commentator Nick Shirley, which claimed to have uncovered a $100 million fraud scheme involving Somali child care centers. 

As the story gained traction, the administration deployed hundreds of ICE agents to Minnesota to engage in an immigration crackdown. Good was gunned down while in the driver’s seat of her car while protesting the agents’ deployment

One law enforcement officer told CNN this month that the Department of Homeland Security’s deployment to Minnesota was due in part to Shirley’s video.

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed on Monday that it was conducting an internal rereview of the incident.