Originally appeared on E! Online
Ellen DeGeneres is gearing up for her next big project.
The comedian, who moved to the U.K. last fall with wife Portia de Rossi, revealed she would be open to taking on a new talk show across the pond after hosting “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” from 2003 to 2022 — though she said she’s unsure if the format still worked in the current media landscape.
“I wish it did, because I would do the same thing here,” she told broadcaster Richard Bacon during a live conversation in Gloucestershire, England, July 20, according to the BBC. “I would love to do that again, but I just feel like people are watching on their phones, or people aren’t really paying attention as much to televisions, because we’re so inundated with information and entertainment.”
Whether or not the 67-year-old returns to daytime TV, she added that she’s mulling over her next career move “very carefully.”
“I just don’t know what that is yet,” she went on. “I want to have fun, I want to do something. I do like my chickens but I’m a little bit bored.”
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The Emmy winner explained that she and de Rossi — who celebrated 20 years as a couple in March — initially planned to live overseas for three or four months of the year, but opted to make the move permanent after President Donald Trump was reelected in November.
Since then, the couple have embraced their new life in Cotswolds, a rural region in southwest England, with DeGeneres calling the countryside landscape “absolutely beautiful.”
“We moved here in November, which was not the ideal time, but I saw snow for the first time in my life,” she recalled. “We love it here. Portia flew her horses here, and I have chickens, and we had sheep for about two weeks.”
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