Ellen DeGeneres Finds a New Love

The Miami Herald ^ | 12-15-04 | Unknown

[SmithPatterson]

Ellen DeGeneres finds a new love

There's good news and bad news in Ellen DeGeneres' household.

DeGeneres, 46, has broken up with her girlfriend of four years, photographer Alexandra Hedison, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer. But, proving that destruction often leads to new life, she has done so to pursue a romance with 31-year-old Arrested Development star Portia de Rossi, who left her girlfriend, singer Francesca Gregorini ( Ringo Starr's stepdaughter). Oh, the drama.

The new couple have VH1's extravaganza Big in '04 to thank for it all. While they first met some nine months ago at a photo shoot, the two did not actually conjoin until they saw each other again at the music channel's awards show Dec. 1, after which de Rossi told friends they fell in love instantly.

But despite instigating the split, DeGeneres is still heartbroken. The New York Post claims she was spotted ''crying hysterically on her phone'' in the lobby of a hotel after a Christmas party.

DeGeneres and Hedison, 35, began quietly dating in 2000, shortly after DeGeneres and Anne Heche ended their headline-grabbing relationship. That split prompted a media frenzy that was helped along by Heche's post-breakup wanderings around Fresno, Calif., waiting for the mother ship to beam her up.

News of the latest split will come as a surprise to those who caught DeGeneres on Dateline NBC last month, as she responded in the affirmative when asked if Hedison was the love of her life.

''Yes. Yeah. I've never felt this way before. Ever,'' she gushed. ``She's amazing. She's kind. She's funny. Really, really funny. Makes me laugh very hard. I'm happier than I've been in my entire life.''

De Rossi, meanwhile, has remained tight-lipped about her personal life.

''I live my life the way I want to live it,'' the former Ally McBeal beauty recently told Australia's Herald-Sun. ``I am certainly not going to modify my life just to suit the paparazzi.''

[from occupied ga]

I just don't see it eg post 10

Now there's a turn of phrase. This is such BS - how can two queer hedonists know what love is?

This is political? I can see the love nest of the NYC police commissar being political news - after all he almost got a cabinet post, but Degenerate's love life is just trash

[Cowboy Bob]

DeGeneres, 46, has broken up with her girlfriend of four years, photographer Alexandra Hedison

Who wants to bet that Alexandra Hedison get married (to a man) in less then 6 months.

[secret garden]

I concur. AD is hilarious.

[50sDad]

"Shut up and swim!"

[aShepard]

.....at the music channel's awards show Dec. 1, after which de Rossi told friends they fell in love instantly.
......

Well, at least these bush pilots don't have to drag out the end of a relationship like real married folks. Meet some strange, and dump the four year lover all in a week.

[fish hawk]

BEAVER DAMN!

[Servant of the 9]

Whoa, I didn't know that Portia Rossi was a sister of sappho.

Don't worry, DeGeneres has shown talent at converting them to hetersexuality.

SO9

[NeoCaveman]

Don't worry, DeGeneres has shown talent at converting them to hetersexuality.

So she is good for something.

[from occupied ga]

If you don't think the homosexual lobby is trying to change our culture

Oh I agree that they are. It's just the tabloid details don't appear to have any relevance to the underlying politics of special privilege that they want.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

DeGeneres and Hedison, 35, began quietly dating in 2000, shortly after DeGeneres and Anne Heche ended their headline-grabbing relationship.

What they didn't mention is that Heche went straight after that (and announced that she had been mentally ill during her lesbian years, due to the trauma of sexual abuse when she was young).