
The catty side of talk shows keeps revealing itself. This time, more information about how Ellen DeGeneres ran her eponymous daytime talk show has emerged, and some of her former employees even regard her as the worst person they’ve ever met in their lives.
Pandemic aside, 2022 was a simpler time — where if someone lost their talk show, it was because of something as innocuous as being mean, as opposed to now, where it could be because of a complex conspiracy that involves the president. But when people started actually getting into the weeds of the “meanness” behind the scenes at The Ellen DeGeneres Show, it became clear that it wasn’t just a case of an unfriendly boss — this was intense bullying.