​Stars Ellen has banned from her show ​

A handful of celebrities are probably thanking their lucky stars that they’ve been banned from Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show.

The host’s reputation has taken a battering this year due to a string of accusations from staffers and show guests claiming she’s ‘not nice’.

“Ellen is at the end of her rope,” an insider recently told Us Weekly. “She thought this was all just sour grapes from a few haters. But it’s not a passing thing — the hits just keep coming.”

Given how much negative press Ellen has received lately, some celebrities might think twice before accepting an invite to appear on her show.

But the awkwardness of having to reject an invite won’t be an issue for some stars who have been black-listed by the host herself from appearing on the talk show.

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Caitlyn Jenner

DeGeneres reportedly banned Caitlyn Jenner, 69, from her show in 2017 after she released her tell-all memoir, The Secrets of My Life, in which she claimed DeGeneres “alienated” her from the LGBTQ community after appearing on the show two years prior and saying she still hadn’t come to accept gay marriage.

“I have to admit that I remember 15 years ago, 20 years ago, whenever it was that the whole gay marriage issue came up, I was not for it,” Jenner explained in 2015.

“I am a traditionalist. I mean, I’m older than most people in the audience. I like tradition and it’s always been between a man and a woman and I’m thinking I don’t quite get it.”

Later in her memoir she said she accepted gay marriage, calling it a “wonderful thing to see.”
 

Vince Vaughn

DeGeneres reportedly banned Vince Vaughn, 49, from appearing on her show while he was promoting his 2011 comedy The Dilemma because the trailer showed Vaughn’s character saying: “Electric cars are gay. I mean, not homosexual, but my-parents-are-chaperoning-the-dance gay.”

She refused to have Vaughn on the show after Anderson Cooper came on and expressed his shock and dismay at the quip. The two eventually made amends and Vaughn started appearing on her talk show a couple of years later.

However, a source told us that Vaughn and DeGeneres “love each other” and that he stopped appearing because he had nothing to promote.
 

Kathy Griffin

The Finding Nemo star wouldn’t allow Kathy Griffin, 58, to appear on her show given their longstanding feud, which, according to Griffin, began when DeGeneres opened her show with a monologue about how “mean” Griffin could be.

“Ellen did a monologue about how mean I am,” Griffin told Us Weekly. “I was in the dressing room like, ‘S**t! You’re another woman comic, c’mon!’”

Griffin later said she was banned from appearing on DeGeneres’ show, and DeGeneres later slammed her to W magazine: “I know she had a big thing about wanting to be on the show, and we didn’t book her,” she said. “She did a whole thing that I banned her from the show. I didn’t ban her from the show, because first you have to be on the show to be banned.”

Griffin and DeGeneres also butted heads on the phone after Joan Rivers died.

According to Griffin, DeGeneres wasn’t a fan of Rivers and thought she was “vulgar” and “not funny”.

“I just called her and I just said, ‘Look, woman to woman, comic to comic, I think you need to let go of your hatred for Joan Rivers. She’s passed away, just do a fu**ing tribute, be cool,’” Griffin said on stage at one of her gigs.

DeGeneres allegedly replied that “there’s a difference between mean and funny”.

“That fu**ing set me off,” Griffin said. “So we had a fight in which I used inflammatory words like, ‘Look you fu**ing untalented hack.’ … You know when you’re fighting with someone and you can kind of laugh at a point? Yeah, not that day.”
 

Kim Burrell

Gospel singer Kim Burrell, 54, was set to appear on The Ellen DeGeneres Show alongside Pharrell to promote their song from Hidden Figures, but DeGeneres banned her from appearing after she made homophobic comments in a video.

“I actually didn’t know her, her name is Kim Burrell. She made a statement she was doing a Facebook Live and she said some very not nice things about homosexuals, so I didn’t feel that was good of me to have her on the show to give her a platform after she was saying things about me,” DeGeneres explained on her show before letting Pharrell discuss Burrell.

Pharrell admonished Burrell’s comments but maintained people should “love each other” despite differing views and beliefs.

“I love her, just like I love everybody else and we all got to get used to that,” he said. “We all have to get used to everyone’s differences and understand that this is a big, gigantic, beautiful, colourful world and it only works with inclusion and empathy. It only works that way.”

He added that “sometimes the divisive stuff works in life. We learned that lesson last year that sometimes divisiveness works. But you have to choose what side you’re on. I’m choosing empathy. I’m choosing inclusion. I’m choosing love for everybody just trying to lift everyone. Even when I disagree with someone, I’m wishing them the best and hoping for the best because we can’t win the other way.”
 

Sherri Shepherd

The former The View panellist Sherri Shepherd, 52, first appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show during its first season and subsequently appeared numerous times until Shepherd started making comments on The View that were perceived as anti-gay, an insider close to the situation told Page Six.

“When Sherri was on The View, she used to get booked on the Ellen show all the time. After she came out on The View taking a stance against gay marriage, the Ellen show refused to book Sherri,” our insider said. “They never gave a reason but the writing was on the wall.

“Ellen is obviously a hypocrite,” the source explained. “She said she can be friends with people who have different views from hers, yet she won’t give those people her platform and block them from appearing on her show.”

Shepherd has made various comments that were deemed homophobic, including saying on Alicia Menendez Tonight in 2014 that growing up Christian led her to believe homosexuality was a sin.

“I think people don’t know my heart,” she told Menendez. “I think people feel I’m very judgmental. I think people feel I’m very homophobic. If they knew me, and knew my heart … “You grow up being a Christian and you grow up believing homosexuality is a sin; you’re going to hell if you’re a homosexual. This is something that they teach in churches. So it’s something that I grew up believing.

“I might not agree with your lifestyle, but I love you,” she continued. “You may not agree with my lifestyle, but you love me … I don’t say it’s a choice. If you tell me, ‘Sherri, I was born gay.’ Okay. I’m not gonna argue with you, because I can’t tell you how you feel and what’s going on inside. I’m trying to make it into heaven by the skin of my teeth … I don’t know who I’m gonna see.”

She later apologised and claimed her comments were misinterpreted by the media.

She told The New York Post in 2019: “I’ve always admired and respected Ellen. She was the first to book me for my first talk show, where I went on to hold a record 23 appearances; and she championed for me to be a co-host on The View in 2007. The views and thoughts that I held have evolved from the statements I made on The View over 10 years ago and I support same sex marriage and partnerships. I am unsure why I haven’t been booked on Ellen’s show since my tenure on The View, but I welcome the opportunity to reconnect with Ellen to thank her for her support and opportunities that have happened for me because of her.”
 

This article originally appeared on The New York Post and was reproduced with permission