Ellen DeGeneres to wed after gay marriage ruling
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Fri May 16, 2008 1:28pm EDT
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres plans to marry her long-time partner, actress Portia de Rossi, after a California court ruling allowing gay marriage.
"I am announcing I am getting married," DeGeneres, 50, told the audience during the taping of her "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on Thursday. The show was due to be broadcast on Friday.
To wild cheers and a standing ovation, DeGeneres said she was very excited at Thursday's ruling by the California Supreme Court overturning a state ban on gay marriage.
"Thank you. I'll tell you who the lucky guy is soon," she joked.
DeGeneres did not mention de Rossi, 35, but pictures showed the former "Ally McBeal" actress in the audience, smiling and applauding.
"It is something of course that we have wanted to do and we wanted to be legal, and we are just very, very excited," DeGeneres said.
DeGeneres and de Rossi have been a familiar couple in Hollywood for about four years, appearing at red carpet events together. DeGeneres previously had a relationship with actress Anne Heche.
DeGeneres made broadcast history in 1997 when her TV alter ego came out of the closet on her ABC sitcom "Ellen," becoming the first openly gay lead character on U.S. prime-time network television.
A short time later, DeGeneres and Heche went public with their real real-life love affair, instantly becoming America's most prominent lesbian couple. They broke up three years later.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1645080220080516
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The world is bloody screwed up these days.
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i like both of them leh!
portia bery chio~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -
shes 50 but shes hot
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i got watch her talk show and read her book
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Originally posted by maurizio13:
The world is bloody screwed up these days.
eh why u against gay marriages. Nuthing wrong wad. Love is about feeling, irregardless of gender.Yeps i second fifi. I <3 Portia and Ellen. They are so so kewt together.
Portia is hot, but Ellen's hot? hehehe but her bedroom eyes are to die for.
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Originally posted by motoway:
eh why are u against gay marriages. Nuthing wrong wad. Love is about feeling, irregardless of gender.Yeps i second fifi. I <3 Portia and Ellen. They are so so kewt together.
Portia is hot, but Ellen's hot? hehehe but her bedroom eyes are to die for.
so if someone love his/her dog, means can marry his/her dog and have carnal relationship?US is quite a fark up country, seems like anything to anybody's fancy is alright even if it goes against norms.
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er, if sumone love their dog to that extreme despite not being able to communicate to dem like humans can well i say go ahead if that makes one happy?
I'm not pro gay, but i dun condemn.
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Originally posted by motoway:
er, if sumone love their dog to that extreme despite not being able to communicate to dem like humans can well i say go ahead if that makes one happy?
I'm not pro gay, but i dun condemn.
but seems like these days, the main criteria for justifying questionable action(s) is, "if it makes you happy, you would be right in doing whatever you do".morality seems to have taken a backseat and the so long as you are happy concept has taken over the steering wheel.
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so if somebody walks along the street, sees a dog, decides to kick it for fun, would be justified in his actions. sole reason being, so long as he is happy.
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Originally posted by maurizio13:
so if someone love his/her dog, means can marry his/her dog and have carnal relationship?US is quite a fark up country, seems like anything to anybody's fancy is alright even if it goes against norms.
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Originally posted by Pitot: my mum says she likes her.
ur mum like ellen? good ma she's funny.My fren's mum love Bae Yong Jun and she apparently rolls on the bed afew hours a day whining about wanting to marry him. *shivers*
Mau mau, the question is, what is morality? Does having a gay marriage means u're breaching the standard conduct? I tink as long as what u're doin dun hurt anyone, it's fine.
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lets leave the homosexual issue outta this thread?
keep it for another time. afterall she is getting married!
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Originally posted by motoway:
ur mum like ellen? good ma she's funny.My fren's mum love Bae Yong Jun and she apparently rolls on the bed afew hours a day whining about wanting to marry him. *shivers*
Mau mau, the question is, what is morality? Does having a gay marriage means u're breaching the standard conduct? I tink as long as what u're doin dun hurt anyone, it's fine.
morality means different things in different culture. but the sanctity of marriage in agrarian societies has always been to procreate, accrue legal status and rights (because in an agrarian society, the men were the bread winners of the household).if gay marriages are considered norm and not stigmatised then i guess it would have widespread historical records of such marriages in every country.
historically the thing with such liasions is that it is mostly clandestine, therefore imbued with a sense of illegality.
i don't have any problems with gay wanting to be with their partners, but to solemnise and legalise it is beyond me.
what makes you think what they are doing is not hurting anybody psychologically? common folks could have extreme disgust over such marriages and psychological trauma.
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So i see morality is measured by standards set by human beings. If tt is the case there's nuthing wrong with altering what people before setted.
Regarding the psychological trauma, I would say it's self-induced. Anyways, I lazy to argue la.
Anything la. Ellen happy, I happy, U happy can oready.
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i watch ally mcbeal lastime
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Some people in America are also try to legalize marriage between human and dogs.Ellen is really a degenerate Let gays live together and this is what happen.
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woah the hot chick in ally mcbeal
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i didnt know she's that....erm...old...! ><
she most certainly does NOT look her age!!!! =p
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Originally posted by FireIce:
i like both of them leh!
portia bery chio~~~~~~~~~~~~~~me like both too
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yah..... does not look like 50...
�养 bery good....
maybe bcos happily in love is like tt one =D
me last time like to watch ally mcbeal bcos of portia and tt "biscuit" guy
and lucy liu! -
who is the male and who is the female ah?
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Originally posted by airgrinder:
who is the male and who is the female ah?
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Originally posted by airgrinder:
who is the male and who is the female ah?
Yeah.. wonder if its those purely lesbian relationship or one more like butch than the other