News Summary

• Ellen DeGeneres is settling into a new phase of her life – and mulling her next move.
• After welcoming A-Listers to her TV studio set in Burbank, California, for two decades, she now raises chickens, battles her riding mower and ushers wandering sheep from her open-plan living room.
• For decades, the American public had been on first-name terms with Ellen; now she lives in splendid isolation in this charming nook of the English countryside.
• The “Be kind to one another” lady, whose coming out in the 1990s was a milestone for the visibility of LGBTQ+ people, is a Rorschach test for many Americans.