She was a waitress, cleaner, secratar or part -time dancer, but today talks between laughs with Sandra Bullock, Jennifer López, One Direction or Miley Cyrus.It has a fortune estimated at 75 million, according to FORTS, and wins about 15 a year thanks to its program The Ellen DeGeneres Show.He celebrates his 58 years married with Portia de Rossi, the blonde attorney who cut the hypo to Biscochito in the Ally McBeal series.There is nothing impossible for Ellen: he makes the Hillary Clinton dance dance or causes Kourtney Kardashian to confess that he had a roll with Justin Bieber.

His blue eyes and blond hair are due to their Irish and German origins.It is the only one that has walked them (and with success) presented the three galas par excellence in the United States by double game: the Grammy, the Emmy and the Oscars, where he made the most watched tweet in history with the help of the BrandgeliansLupita Nyong'o, Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep.

Success comes from family and is that his brother, Vance Degeneres was the producer of Crazy, Stupid, Love who had the actors Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone and Kevin Bacon as a luxury cast.

When in the beginning the circle of stranger friends of Ellen asked him to interpret one of his famous monologues for pure fun did not imagine that years later he would win a Golden Globe, nine People's Choice Awards and up to eight (and fifteen the program) Awards)Emmy.

American spectators raised the presenter to Heroin when she faced the cameras in the middle of the two greatest shaking of superpower.After the 11S attacks he had to present the Emmy gala: "We are told to continue with our life as always, because not doing so would let the terrorists win and, in truth, what could alter the Taliban more than the Taliban thanA lesbian in a suit in front of a room full of Jews? "He said as he got half the world in his pocket without hurting sensibilities.

Ellen lived his childhood in New Olans, but that did not prevent him from three weeks later of the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, he will snap: "They already know how I am, any excuse to put on a suit", when he learned that he had to directThe Emmy show.

He left the closet in 1997 on the cover of Time magazine and confessed his homosexuality in the Oprah program.His first program invited Jennifer Anniston, considered a gay community icon in the United States.Ellen enjoys his talent show in which he makes the biggest stars laugh, give cars, trips, organizes sporadic stripteases in front of Paris Hilton, Justin Timberlake or Oprah Winfrey.His empire has grown so much that he sells books on decoration based on his mansions and collects the benefits of Ed by Ellen, his own clothing brand.

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