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The end of an era: how things came tumbling down for Ellen DeGeneres

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Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has announced next year will be her last season on air. (PHOTO: Gallo images/ Getty images)
Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has announced next year will be her last season on air. (PHOTO: Gallo images/ Getty images)

Ellen DeGeneres is not as nice as you think.

This was the headline in a New York Times article on Ellen DeGeneres three years ago – long before any of the drama she became embroiled in last year began to surface.

The story suggested that the fun, friendly persona on her talk show was an act – not the woman she really was at heart, who was far more serious and complex than the jokey, everyone’s-best-friend image she portrayed.

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