Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi have bid adieu to the United States ... and Donald Trump's election win was the driving force ... TMZ has learned.
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00:00We have been hearing for decades now celebrities saying if this election doesn't turn out the way I like I'm out of here and
00:08No, none of them that I can remember anyone actually did it. Nobody does it for that alone
00:13You got to hand it to Ellen DeGeneres whether you agree with her politically or not
00:17She stuck to her guns. She is rude to her worry and Portia de Rossi have left the country days after the election
00:25Election they bailed and they went to England now
00:28They had a house that they already had a house and had a house
00:31but that what that didn't mean they were gonna live there and the Cotswolds and they made a decision as
00:37Our source put it
00:39Who is very connected to them to get the hell out and they did it days after the election
00:45They live there now and they're selling the gun. I'll the Montecito house that they own
00:50Yeah, they're gonna sell this Montecito house and the Cotswolds is interesting because it is truly like a sanctuary it's very cozy there
00:57There's a lot of cottages
00:58It truly feels like they want to leave the chaos of America post election with the Trump news and they want to go somewhere
01:04Where they can truly get away and the Cotswolds is kind of like that
01:07What we're told is this is why they left they made the decision after the election to go now
01:14I will say I will say that it's nice to have money and have a house somewhere else where you can have like
01:20Okay, Pat, this is not about privilege because there are a lot of people who have said that but they can't do it
01:25Most people can't do that, right, but they can do that. Now. The only thing I would say is that
01:32Sometimes you can get impulsive and say I'm moving there and then when reality kind of sets in it may be great and it may
01:39Be so you say is like you want to see how long this left. That's right
01:44I will say there's some evidence that they're blending in
01:47They're feeling feeling pretty cozy over there because there was a new pub that opened and they were there. There's
01:55Portia with an Ellen with different by the way, it seems like Ellen. I don't know if this was to
02:00avoid
02:02Being noticed in town, but looks like she's well, of course our hair. So I don't know that they're gonna say
02:07Oh, that's not Ellen. She's got dark hair. I don't know. I did you recognize her when you first saw this? Yeah
02:12No, you didn't
02:15Make me call you out. You thought Portia was Ellen. You're like, where's Ellen? I like look next to Portia. Oh
02:24My big question Harvey and Charles, is this now going to be a blueprint?
02:28We've always rolled our eyes of people who say they're going to leave the country, but now they've done it
02:32Eva Longoria is going to Spain although yeah, but that's not why she says that's not why that's right
02:37But now is this a blueprint where people?
02:39People can't most people can't do that, right and again, this is not a privilege issue
02:44I mean, yeah, they've got money and they're doing it, but it's not like oh look at them. It's like they did it
02:50Hi, I'm Sade. I'm from Richmond, Virginia
02:53And honestly, I am a hundred percent behind the move
02:58I think Ellen did what a lot of us women wish we had the ability to do
03:03After the election results and in all honesty
03:06I think Ellen probably already wanted to leave and this was really the straw that broke the camel's back for her
03:11So I wish her and Portia the best and I'm sure it'll be peaceful for them
03:16I'm sure it may just be too peaceful as the that's the thing. Is it gonna be too although Montecito is pretty sleepy