Ellen DeGeneres: August 2008 Archives

Love, love, love the new People Magazine with Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi's wedding featured. There is an interview with the brides inside and they were each asked when they knew they wanted to spend the rest of their lives together.
Portia: "Instantly."
Ellen: "The first time I ever saw her. We both knew when we met each other. We each knew each other for three years before we actually got together. The timing wasn;t right."
Portia: "When I met her, I just was so attracted to her and just wanted to be around her, but I was at a different stage. The scared stage, I was on 'Ally McBeal' and I couldn't imagine living as an openly gay woman. And to be with Ellen that meant that I would have to overcome a lot of my fears. So a few years passed and I wasn't going to let that opportunity pass me again. She's everything to me."

In a blog post titled "Just Married," Ellen DeGeneres writes about getting married to Portia de Rossi on Saturday. There are some jokes, of course: "I had a big, big weekend. I got married to Portia de Rossi! Sorry, John Stamos... this one's taken."

,"The wedding was everything we hoped it could be," Ellen wrote. "I wish I could've invited all of you. But I have some pictures and video I can show you when Season 6 starts on September 8. I can't wait to see them too... it was all a blur. See you then."

"Blissfully yours, The just married Mrs. DeGeneres."

Barack Obama may believe that marriage "is between a man and a woman," anyone who sees a copy of next week's issue of People Magazine can see that it is not. It is between two people who love each other.

Obama's comments over the weekend still deeply disappoint me. Frankly, it makes me sick and not want to vote for him. But this post was meant to be about Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi. The fact is, Ellen is one of the most popular entertainers in America, beloved and respected. She's hosted the Oscars, won countless Emmys and has millions of people watching her on television every day. She got married last weekend and I love to see that People magazine is treating it like it would any other big celebrity wedding - which it is.

If Obama is elected (I'm sure I'll vote for him because the alternative is dreadful), I wonder if he'll invite Ellen and Portia to a White House state dinner and I wonder if he would congratulate them on their marriage.

Congratulations to Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi who were married Saturday at their home in Los Angeles home before 19 of their family and friends. What a beautiful thing...

That is what US Weekly is reporting exclusively. If it's true, congratulations to these two talented and dynamic women who I greatly admire and am very happy for.

I say "if" because the memory of US Weekly editor Janice Min going on "The Today Show": to announce exclusively a few years back that Angelnia Jolie and Brad Pitt were gettoing married - or maybe it was Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn. Anyway, she was dead WRONG!

So, if Ellen and Portia do get married, US Weekly will restore some of its credibility in the area of wedding announcements.