Well, it worked for him!
Howard Stern waited for the apparent fall of Ellen DeGeneres’ grace, saying that if he were in the shoes of the talk show host, he “would change [his] whole image. ”
“I would go up in the air and be a son of a bitch,” he said Monday on SiriusXM’s “Howard Stern Show.” ‘People would come and [I would] go, ‘F – k you.’ Just be ap-k. ”
Stern went on to say, “Do you think I’m an apk? I’ll just show you. it, for the most part. “
Stern, 65, and DeGeneres, 62, have been friends for some time – he even married his wife Beth on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in 2019 – and he made his “rebranding” suggestion with the caveat he thinks DeGeneres should try and work things out first with their staff.
Stern, who mentioned that he worked out of his Hamptons home during the pandemic, said he counts among his staff members a writer who worked too late “900 times” without confirmation and that the brouhaha about the culture at “Ellen “has moved him to re-evaluate his own show.
“Do you know who has been abused in my workplace?” he asked. “My.”
Earlier this month, Page Six exclusively reported that Stern’s contract renewal at SiriusXM – his current deal is at the end of the year – may be the biggest of the star’s career, if he decides to continue.
Whether DeGeneres intends to follow Stern’s advice when she returns to work on August 24 for “Ellen’s Game of Games” remains to be seen. Insiders say both sides, she has no intention of quitting, despite the avalanche of bad publicity – and competing ratings drop – she has been making since a Twitter thread in March began a move by former employees accusing her of creating a toxic work environment.
While several celebrities, including Kevin Hart and Katy Perry, have offered support to DeGeneres, not much is being done to stop the flow of anecdotes about her proven disgusting streak, including one by a Louisiana man who claimed DeGeneres described him as 11-year-old bully when she worked at his mother’s New Orleans office early in her career.
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