When newlyweds Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi were cornered yesterday on their way to lunch by paps, Portia was asked what she thought of married life.

Spoken like a true newlywed she said, “amazing.” Well, unless you are Britney Spears, Elizabeth Taylor, or met a stripper named Fiona at the Crazy Horse in Vegas who said she would treat you really well until she found out you were broke, almost every newlywed is going to say that. You just got married two days ago. Of course you are going to say that. Hell, you are in the middle of opening presents or on your honeymoon so of course you love it. The crap doesn’t start until you both have to go back to work, realize you never see each other and that your office spouse has better breath and makes better coffee.

Plus, what idiot is going to be standing in front of their spouse, and say, “Awful. Crappy. I wish I had never married. I thought the sex would be better. I thought there would be sex. I had no idea that men had that problem. For some reason I thought it would be bigger. Are you not supposed to be able to feel it?” OK, well there are some idiots who would do that but not Portia. So, of course it is amazing. Plus, People just came out with the pretty pictures so it would be a tad uncouth to take their dough while at the same time getting into an argument with your new spouse for the world to see.

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Ellen Degeneres and Portia De Rossi are set to tie the knot this weekend according to Us Weekley! 

They are the first celebrity same-sex couple to get married since California past the law that it is OK for same-sex marriages! Way to go girls!!! May your marriage only be full of happiness!

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Ellen DeGeneres gave Portia de Rossi a glittering ring with pink diamonds for their upcoming wedding that will air in part on DeGeneres’s talk show.

“Yes, we have set a wedding date,” said DeGeneres, who walked the red carpet with de Rossi at Friday night’s 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood.

De Rossi wore a green satin Lanvin gown and a Neil Lane ring on her wedding finger. The ring was a marquis cut diamond set with pink diamonds.

DeGeneres, 50, who won an Emmy for outstanding talk-show host for the fourth year in a row, announced her plans to wed longtime girlfriend de Rossi, on her show back in May, shortly after California’s Supreme Court ruled the previous ban on gay marriages as unconstitutional.

The two stars are in the midst of preparations for what DeGeneres calls “the dream wedding.”

“Planning a wedding is very stressful,” says DeGeneres. “It is crazy. My gardener is now invited.”

The comedienne remained tight-lipped on the major details of her upcoming nuptials to de Rossi, 35, only revealing that “incredible people” would be performing, and that she would air part of the ceremony on her show.

But there are no signs of any pre-wedding jitters for DeGeneres.

“I can’t wait to be married. I feel like it is long overdue,” she said. “And I think someday people will look back on this like women not having the right to vote and segregation and anything else that seems ridiculous like we all don’t have the same rights.”

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Ellen DeGeneres And Portia De Rossi

Pop singer Justin Timberlake is offering to write and perform a one-of-a-kind song for Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi’s upcoming wedding ceremony.The television talk show host went public with plans to wed her longtime girlfriend during a taping of her daily show, which aired on Friday.The big announcement came a day after California’s same-sex marriage ban was overturned by Supreme Court judges, who declared the original ruling was unconstitutional. And Timberlake was among the first to congratulate the couple when he appeared on the show minutes later. Laughing off the suggestion that he should marry his girlfriend, Jessica Biel, and make the event a double wedding, the singer offered, “No … but I’ll sing at your wedding.” He insisted he was deadly serious and said he’d put words De Rossi and DeGeneres wrote to music for the special ceremony, which thrilled the host and her girlfriend, who was sitting in the audience. He said, “You should have an original wedding song; I think it’s only fitting.”(Write down) everything you want to say to Portia and everything you wanna say to Ellen … and I’ll put it to music and it’ll be amazing.”

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Ellen DeGeneres plans to wed longtime girlfriend Portia de Rossi, she announced during a taping of her show Thursday.

In the episode, airing Friday (the news was first reported by TMZ), DeGeneres revealed the big news and told the crowd, “I’m very excited.” The announcement immediately followed the news that California’s Supreme Court struck down a law banning gay marriage.

De Rossi, 35, was reportedly in the studio when DeGeneres – who just celebrated her 50th birthday – broke the news.

In what’s sure to be a controversial decision, the California’s Supreme Court ruled that people have a fundamental “right to marry” the partner of their choosing – therefore the previous ban on gay marriage was ruled unconstitutional.

The two stars began dating in December 2004, as de Rossi was appearing on the FOX sitcom Arrested Development.

One key to their happiness, DeGeneres said last year, is that they learn from one another. “She’s taught me lessons about myself, and I feel like I’ve taught her,” said the TV host. “We’ve both changed and grown, and we just feel like, ‘Oh, okay, this is completion.’ “

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DESPITE the doggie drama surrounding Iggy, the cute pup Ellen DeGeneres adopted then gave away last October, the talk queen has rebounded. She’s been named one of the best on TV when it comes to raising awareness of animal issues by Beverly Kaskey, senior director of the Hollywood branch of the Humane Society. “Ellen took on the cruelty of hunting, cooking lobsters and even defended small insects,” Kaskey explained to the Fancast Web site. Lisa Simpson, of “The Simpsons” also got props for becoming a vegetarian in one episode. “Lisa makes the connection between the lamb chops on her plate and the lamb she had befriended earlier and refuses to eat her dinner,” said Kaskey. And on the negative side, “Survivor” is ripped for one episode in which contestants “beheaded a rooster and stabbed to death a squealing pig. The frenzy ended with one contestant smearing blood on his face.”

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Good hearted Ellen Degeneres tried to hold back tears on her talk show on Wednesday when model Jenny McCarthy told her a fish tale about her autistic son Evan. McCarthy told the host she was stunned when her boy likened himself to DeGeneres’ Finding Nemo character Dory during a car trip.The former Playboy model said, “Evan has come such a long way. That kid has come such a long way to get to where he is.”He said, ‘Mom, you know I used to be a lot like Dory.’ I literally pulled over and looked and turned around and I started crying, because of what he meant.”He said, ‘Dory had a really hard time remembering her words and I couldn’t remember them…’ We sat on the side of the road for about 15 minutes while I cried.”He said, ‘I’m not like Dory anymore, I can remember.’” DeGeneres was touched by the story, telling her guest, “I’m gonna cry right now… That’s incredible.” DeGeneres then offered to call McCarthy’s son as his favorite cartoon character.

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Television star Courteney Cox is confirming she’s planning to become a mother again after going public with her baby plans.The 43-year-old Friends actress endured a series of failed pregnancies before she gave birth to daughter Coco in 2004, and she insists her family isn’t quite complete yet. During a recent appearance on the hit Ellen DeGeneres’ daily talk show, Cox revealed, “I do wanna have another one (child)… I don’t know how to achieve that at my age but I would like to have one more.” Her husband, David Arquette, recently revealed the couple was considering adoption. He said, “We would adopt in a second.”

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Reese Witherspoon doesn’t fear box-office bombs!

On today’s Ellen, host Ellen DeGeneres asked the actress if, while watching Sunday’s Academy Awards presentation, she thought, “Ah, who cares about those — I’ve already got one.”

Reese’s laughing response? “The good news is… no matter how many stinky movies you make, they can’t take it away from you!”

(The actress, 31, whose new flick, Penelope, opens tomorrow, won an Oscar in 2006 for her starring role in Walk the Line.)

Reese also revealed a surprising obsession — trash!

“I like to throw a lot of things away. Particularly at Christmas, it makes me a little crazy when the trash is overflowing. So then I put on rubber boots and I literally get into the trash can and I stomp on the trash and [my son] Deacon thinks it’s so great. We call me ‘the mommy trash compactor.’”

To which Ellen quipped, “Then you should make wine.”

“Sometimes I’ll sneak in and look at the neighbor’s garbage cans and see if it’s kind of empty. I’ll wait literally until the middle of the night when the children are asleep and I’ll take my extra garbage and I’ll put it in the can,” Reese continued.

“And at Christmastime I was talking to my brother and I was like, ‘Brother, sometimes I sneak into the garbage and I put it in the other person’s can.’ And he goes, ‘So do I, Sister.’”

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Ellen DeGeneres is getting all gussied up! The traditionally trouser-clad comedian will appear as the first celebrity briefcase model on the January 16 episode of NBC’s Deal or No Deal. Decked out in a fabulous green minidress, no less. (OK, she’s wearing trousers, too.) The star of The Ellen DeGeneres Show joins the rest of “Howie’s Hotties” to cheer on Shequila Farrelly of Redstone Abenal, Alabama, as she plays with seven $1 million cases on the board. Good luck, Shequila, and don’t let that nasty banker stress you out!

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Jenna Bush, phone home. The first daughter appeared nervous when Ellen DeGeneres asked her to call her parents during a taping of DeGeneres’ talk show Tuesday. The show aired Wednesday. “They’re going to kill me,” the 26-year-old told DeGeneres. “I’m going to be in so much trouble.”

“No, they’re going to be thrilled,” DeGeneres said. “Why wouldn’t they want to say `hi’ to everybody and say Merry Christmas?”

“They may have wanted some warning,” responded Bush, who was on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” to promote her new book, “Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope.”

All was well, though, when she reached her parents on speakerphone.

“I’m just sitting here with daddy,” Laura Bush told her daughter, to which DeGeneres chimed in: “Oh hey! It’s Ellen. I wanted to say hi to daddy.”

So the president got on the line: “How’s my little girl doing?”

“Oh, she’s great. She’s scared she’s going to get in trouble because I just said, `Is it easy to just pick up the phone and call your dad anytime?’” DeGeneres said. “And now she’s scared she’s not going to get any Christmas presents.”

Bush said he wasn’t angry.

“I do want to say Merry Christmas to your audience, and I want to tell my little girl I love her,” the president said.

“I love you too, Dad,” Jenna responded.

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Heidi Klum is on The Ellen Degeneres Show today where she told Ellen that Brit Brit Spears taught her a lot of things about diapers. Heidi and Brit had a little chat at Heidi’s Halloween party.

UsWeekly reports Heidi said, “We were talking about babies and diapers and she explained to me a lot of things about diapers I that didn’t know. You know these sticky things on the side? I never knew that they were there. To close them in the front, I was always putting string around. I had no idea.”“It’s very clever. I learned a lot of things.”

How effin dumb can you be? That conversation sounds like an ox trying to discuss the works of Dostoevsky with a hammer.

I’ve never changed a baby in my life and even I know what those sticky things are. Well, probably because I’ve been asked to wear a diaper a few times in bed. JOKING! Ok not really, but just pretend I am.

Brit probably talked to her in that Nell language the entire time. “Mah diapapap sticky icky bubbies bubby funn Heeee diiiiii.” Dumb Heidi probably knows what the hell she’s saying.

Heidi had to have been joking.

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Iggy is back! The Insider promises us video of Iggy at his new home on Monday. HA! Iggy is becoming one of the biggest bitch’s in Hollywood. He needs his own reality show. He needs to lose a few though. He’s looking a little chunky. Click here to see a little preview if you care.

In other Ellen news, the Writers Guild of America are not happy with her. Ellen crossed the picket lines on Tuesday to shoot her show. They issued a statement and here’s a little piece of it:

We find it sad that Ellen spent an entire week crying and fighting for a dog that she gave away, yet she couldn’t even stand by writers for more than one day - writers who have helped make her extremely successful.

Zing! Click here to read the entire statement. Start getting those tears ready Ellen.

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One day after the writers strike began, Ellen DeGeneres crossed the picket line to tape an episode of her show on Tuesday. She skipped her usual monologue in honor of her writers who she says she loves, but she didn’t want to disappoint the audience who “traveled across the country.” However, shortly after word of her strikebreaking spread, some writers who worked on Ellen’s sitcom are saying she’s full of crap. Page Six reports:

“We’d watch her in rehearsals, smiling and winning us over with her charm and comic timing. Then the director would yell cut, her face would fall, and she’d level a glare at the writers. ‘Why do you keep writing these unfunny jokes?’ she’d hiss.
“Ellen frequently eviscerated the head writer and . . . boasted of the changes she’d make in season two, starting with his firing.”
“I’m disappointed in Ellen [for crossing the picket line] but not surprised . . . given what I’ve seen from her with my own two eyes.”

Another source for Page Six offered his insight on the situation:

A TV insider said DeGeneres is unwilling to honor the picket line because “this is her last chance in show business. This show is the only thing keeping her from a lifetime of touring college campuses.”

Are college students even into Ellen DeGeneres? Last time I checked they were into things like Dave Matthews, Ultimate Frisbee and Facebook which, now that I think about it, are all ridiculously gay. Hmm, maybe this Ellen on campus thing could work out. That’s good for her considering no one wants to write for her again. Especially not me. I thought the pilot I wrote where Ellen ran a sushi bar was not only witty but informative. Ellen thought it was worth a taser to the nads followed by a restraining order. Creative differences, I suppose.

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