Ellen DeGeneres has cancelled 4 of her upcoming comedy reveals, for causes that stay unclear.
The Ellen’s Final Stand… Up Tour is the previous TV host’s first main foray again into the limelight, two years after her eponymous discuss present was cancelled amid poisonous office allegations. In keeping with DeGeneres’s Ticketmaster web page, tour dates in Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle and Chicago have been cancelled.
“Sadly, the Occasion Organizer has needed to cancel your occasion,” the Ticketmaster replace reads.
DeGeneres has but to make a public assertion on why these reveals had been cancelled. Her crew has additionally not supplied any perception into the abrupt cancellations. The Dallas present that was cancelled was slated for July 10 and the Chicago present was deliberate for Aug. 11. Each these dates had been the one reveals organized for these cities.
DeGeneres had deliberate to carry out two nights every in San Francisco (July 20-21) and Seattle (July 22-23). For each of those cities, the second tour date has been axed.
The remaining San Francisco present seems to have dozens of tickets nonetheless out there for buy, as does the remaining Seattle date, suggesting that low ticket gross sales often is the cause for the cancellations.
There is just one Canadian present within the Ellen’s Final Stand… Up Tour, slated for Aug. 5 in Toronto’s Meridian Corridor. The Toronto occasion is usually bought out. The few remaining tickets value about $330.
DeGeneres was once a titan of daytime tv with The Ellen DeGeneres Present. She fell from grace in 2020 after workers on the present got here ahead with allegations they confronted racism, intimidation and sexual misconduct by the hands of prime producers. Three producers had been fired within the aftermath of the bombshell 2020 Buzzfeed Information investigation, however The Ellen DeGeneres Present by no means recovered and ended after 19 seasons.
DeGeneres reportedly addressed her unceremonious exit from daytime tv throughout an Ellen’s Final Stand comedy present, joking that she was “kicked out” of showbiz for being “imply.”
“There’s no imply folks in present enterprise,” the previous host was quoted by Folks and Rolling Stone in April.
“The ‘be variety’ lady wasn’t variety. That was the headline,” DeGeneres continued, referencing how she used to finish all her reveals with the phrase “Be variety to at least one one other.”
DeGeneres later commented that the fallout of the 2020 investigation into her present was really the second time she was “kicked out of present enterprise,” referencing how her sitcom Ellen, which was cancelled in 1998 after she got here out as homosexual.
“For these of you conserving rating, that is the second time I’ve been kicked out of present enterprise.… Ultimately they’re going to kick me out for a 3rd time as a result of I’m imply, outdated, and homosexual.”
DeGeneres apologized to her employees in July 2020 after the poisonous office allegations emerged.
“On day one in every of our present, I advised everybody in our first assembly that The Ellen DeGeneres Present can be a spot of happiness — nobody would ever increase their voice, and everybody can be handled with respect,” DeGeneres mentioned. “Clearly, one thing modified, and I’m disillusioned to be taught that this has not been the case. And for that, I’m sorry. Anybody who is aware of me is aware of it’s the other of what I imagine and what I hoped for our present.”
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