Ellen DeGeneres has recently received a fair amount of bad press due to persistent allegations in the workplace of former employees. This has led many to put DeGeneres’ past interviews under control.
Back in 2019, SuperM appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show after the release of their debut EP. While the interview is almost a year old, fans watched a clip of Mark in the show making it go viral on Twitter with nearly 1 million views.
SuperM Made Her American TV Debut On The Ellen DeGeneres Show
SuperM released their debut EP and music video for their song “Jopping” on October 4, 2019. A few days later on October 9, 2019, the Korean band made their American TV debut on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. DeGeneres interviewed the septet and members performed “I Can’t Stand the Rain” and “Jopping.”
During the interview, DeGeneres asked Baekhyun, Taemin, Kai, Ten, Taeyong, Lucas, and Mark if they were with anyone.
“Okay, just really fast, and not for me, but of course I need to know for the world are you all single?” Frege DeGeneres.
The members replied that they were single, after which DeGeneres asked “Are you all single?”
“Wait, why are you always curious about this?” Frege Mark.
“It’s my job,” DeGeneres replied.
At the end of the interview, SuperM DeGeneres presented a $ 50,000 donation to the Ellen Fund to help global conservation efforts.
After the appearance of SuperM on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, fans praised Mark’s question to DeGeneres. While some found his remark funny, others interpreted it as Mark shouting the media obsession over the privacy of celebrities.
Mark’s response went viral
In July 2020, Buzzfeed published a report from former employees The Ellen DeGeneres Show accused executive producers of sexual misconduct and harassment. The manufacturers have since been fired, and Variety reports that DeGeneres has apologized to employees over the “on-set toxicity that ‘occurred on their watch.'”
Yet the scandal caused people to question DeGeneres himself, and some called for the replacement of the talk show host. A few days after the scandal broke, SuperM fans spread Mark’s video with joke DeGeneres.
“Can’t believe Mark Lee told Ellen to watch out like that on national television,” one of tweeted.
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What the K-pop group thought about ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’
On December 4, 2019, Kai and Baekhyun appeared on the MBC program Radio Star, and Kai commented on how short the interview was The Ellen DeGeneres Show as was.
A common complaint among K-pop fans is that interview quality is poor when K-pop artists are interviewed outside of South Korea, especially in the US. This is often due to the fact that groups are asked poorly researched and repetitive questions.
“Like I want to assume the best and that her Kpop interviews are uncomfortable and boring because she does not know how to join a group where there are some language barriers and she is obviously not well informed … the sit downs are uncomfortable and busy and generic, ”one Reddit user wrote about the appearance of SuperM on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
SuperM’s new single “Tiger Inside” drops on September 1, 2020 and their highly anticipated studio album Super One will be released on September 25, 2020.
