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<\/p>\nFormer talk show host Ellen DeGeneres is finding the transition to British country life rather challenging after relocating to the UK.<\/p>\n
The comedian recently shared an Instagram video showing her struggles with a seemingly simple task – mowing the lawn at her new countryside home.<\/p>\n
The humorous clip, filmed by her wife Portia de Rossi, has given fans a glimpse into the couple’s new rural lifestyle.<\/p>\n
“Portia thought it would be fun to film my first time on the mower,” DeGeneres wrote in the caption of her post. “She was right.”<\/p>\n
Former talk show host Ellen DeGeneres is finding the transition to British country life rather challenging after relocating to the UK<\/p>\n
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The video reveals DeGeneres’s entertaining attempt at mastering a ride-on lawn mower.<\/p>\n
The video begins with DeGeneres successfully mowing a flat portion of her lawn, with the caption “How it started” appearing on screen.<\/p>\n
However, things quickly take a comedic turn when she attempts to tackle a hill.<\/p>\n
The second part of the clip, labelled “How it ended”, shows DeGeneres struggling with the mower as someone pushes the machine from behind to assist her.<\/p>\n
Throughout the ordeal, de Rossi can be heard trying to contain her laughter while filming her wife’s lawn mowing mishap.<\/p>\n
The video perfectly captures DeGeneres’s adjustment challenges as she adapts to the practicalities of countryside living in Britain.<\/p>\n
MORE LIKE THIS:<\/strong><\/p>\n The second part of the clip shows DeGeneres struggling with the mower as someone pushes the machine from behind to assist her<\/p>\n INSTAGRAM<\/p>\n The Hollywood couple’s move to the UK came in November 2024 following Donald Trump’s election victory.<\/p>\n They had begun preparing months earlier, selling one of their Montecito, California homes in August 2024.<\/p>\n Their second property in the city was sold in March.<\/p>\n “Ellen was in England house hunting in the beginning of October,” a source told People magazine at the time of their relocation.<\/p>\n “She ended up finding a house that she loved and purchased it shortly after.”<\/p>\n The couple’s decision to leave the United States after the presidential election made headlines across both countries.<\/p>\n Their countryside property purchase represented a significant lifestyle change for the former television personalities.<\/p>\n While the exact location of their new home remains undisclosed, the couple is rumoured to be living in the English countryside.<\/p>\n Shortly after their relocation, DeGeneres and de Rossi were spotted dining with friends at The Farmer’s Dog in the Cotswolds.<\/p>\n DeGeneres isn’t the only American comedian to leave following Trump’s election victory.<\/p>\n Rosie O’Donnell also departed the US, choosing Ireland as her new home, moving on 15 January 2025- five days before Trump’s inauguration.<\/p>\n Rosie O’Donnell also departed the US, choosing Ireland as her new home<\/p>\n GETTY<\/p>\n She explained in a March TikTok video that she “was someone who never thought I would move to another country,” but felt it was best for her and her young child.<\/p>\n In an April interview with US Weekly, O’Donnell expressed surprise at DeGeneres’s decision to leave America.<\/p>\n “I’ve never really known Ellen to say anything political in her life, so I was surprised to read that she left because of President Trump. Like, that shocked me, actually,” O’Donnell said.<\/p>\n She highlighted the difference in their public personas regarding politics.<\/p>\n “I’ve been a political person my whole life. Not better or worse. It’s just a different way to be in the world,” she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former talk show host Ellen DeGeneres is finding the transition to British country life rather challenging after relocating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[4781,77,12,512,382,16,15,978,727],"class_list":{"0":"post-83115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-celebrity","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-sgg","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114469181540371133","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Ellen](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1746660972_12_ellen-degeneres-instagram-post.png\")
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