Ellen DeGeneres built her brand and accumulated a fortune based on a “nice” persona that proved to be as legit and accurate as a box of Twinkies marketing itself as “health food.”
The 2019 scandal that shed the light on what you would call a “less flattering” portrait of the comedian and talk-show host basically put her daytime, multi-Emmy winning show on life support.
Now the end is officially near. The dancing stops at the end of her upcoming 19th season.
But she’s exiting stage right in a Brinks truck. Even if Ellen was a rude ego maniac for 23 hours a day, that one hour in front of the camera made her rich.
How rich? Take a look at how she measures up with the other legendary and high-paid TV talkers…
Goodbye dancing, white kicks, corny jokes, and snarky interviewing. Ellen is hanging up her custom made leisure suits for good in 2022.
She said she’d quit when she was no longer challenged, and apparently she’s become so bored with doing her show she employs three full-time people just to make sure she doesn’t doze off on her couch.
That might be a stretch, but it’s safe to say her audience needs a break as much as she does.
So she’s leaving.
But she has enough side hustles in place to keep the cash register ringing until Elon Musk’s great grandchildren have summer homes on Mars.
She just signed a deal with Discovery, and she has shows on:
NBC – Game of Games, Family Game Fight
Fox – Masked Singer
HBO – Ellen’s Next Great Designer
Give Ellen credit for this. She may have created a toxic work environment, had producers cowering in fear, and was one of those celebs that don’t allow commoners to make eye contact with her, but she reportedly gave away almost $70 million in charitable donations during her talk show run.
Don’t worry, she has plenty left for herself.
In fact, here’s how her net worth stacks up with some other top talkers.
Ellen DeGeners
- Talk show host
- Producer
- Actor
- Comedian
Total Net Worth: $400-$500 million.
Conan O’Brien
Talk show host NBC and TBS
Producer
Total Net Worth: $150 million
Johnny Carson
King of Late Night Television
Writer/Producer
Total Net Worth: $325 million
David Letterman
Late Night Host NBC & CBS
Netflix Show Host
Total Net Worth: $400 million
Jay Leno
NBC Tonight Show
Comedian
Car freak
Total Net Worth: $450 million
Oprah Winfrey
Talk Show Host
Owner of Television Network
Media Mogul
Total Net Worth: $2.7 billion.
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