Most “canceled” celebrities are desperate to get back in the game, but Ellen DeGeneres has apparently looked around and said, “You know what? This works for me.” She’s already said her upcoming Netflix special, a taped version of “Ellen’s Last Stand… Up Tour,” would be her final one. But it’s not just from stand-up comedy that she’s retiring. When asked at a recent show if she’d try Broadway or movies next, DeGeneres reportedly said, “Um, no,” according to SFGate.
Perhaps it’s the numbers that have led DeGeneres to conclude she has to bow out. The Ellen DeGeneres Show faced declining ratings in its final seasons; more recently, she abruptly canceled four dates on her stand-up tour, and according to The Los Angeles Times, only eight of her 27 dates were sold out. That’s probably as much a reflection of the current state of the industry as it is anything else, but if you were in the middle of a PR crisis, it would be pretty easy to take personally.