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Celebs Who Insulted Ellen On Her Show

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Ellen DeGeneres built an empire on giving away cars and dancing with Pitbull, but her own guests haven’t always played along with the sunshine act.

Nicki Swift’s video breakdown “Celebs Who Insulted Ellen On Her Show,” published September 17, 2018, rounds up the moments when a sit-down on The Ellen DeGeneres Show turned into something closer to a roast. The jabs range from playful ribbing over a cooking segment gone wrong to a genuinely tense standoff about marriage equality. Some of it landed as harmless daytime-TV banter; some of it clearly caught DeGeneres off guard in front of a live studio audience.

• Giada De Laurentiis told DeGeneres her arancini “looks like dog food now” during a 2017 cooking segment with Nicole Kidman, who then spit out De Laurentiis’ tough focaccia on camera.
• Sean Hayes needled DeGeneres in an exchange nicknamed “The Battle of the Gays,” cracking that his interview segment “was longer than your sitcom was on.”
• Katy Perry corrected DeGeneres on air in 2017 after the host forgot she’d once been married to Russell Brand, reminding her, “Remember you gave me wedding gifts on this show?”

The Kitchen Segment That Turned Into A Roast

De Laurentiis’ 2017 visit was supposed to be a straightforward arancini demo alongside Nicole Kidman, but it fell apart fast once DeGeneres got her hands on the rice. “Ellen’s balls are falling apart,” De Laurentiis complained, adding that the host was “just making a mess of my work.” DeGeneres, unbothered, kept mangling the dish anyway, and things only got worse when the group moved on to De Laurentiis’ focaccia — bread so tough that Kidman and DeGeneres both spit it out and critiqued it to her face, live, on set.

Sean Hayes And The Battle Of The Gays

Hayes’ needling had a sharper edge than most. Mid-interview, the Will & Grace star took a shot at DeGeneres’ pacing, joking his segment “was longer than your sitcom was on” — a dig at the fact that Ellen, her 1990s sitcom, was canceled after DeGeneres came out publicly. DeGeneres didn’t let it slide; she shot back that she’d paved the way for guys like Hayes by coming out first, turning a joke into a genuine moment of one-upmanship between two out gay comedians trading blows on live television.

Caitlyn Jenner’s Cold Reception

Jenner’s 2015 appearance produced friction that wasn’t a joke at all. Pressed on same-sex marriage, Jenner gave a lukewarm, noncommittal answer that visibly didn’t sit well on set. The tension didn’t stay contained to that one episode — Jenner later said publicly that the exchange contributed to her feeling alienated from parts of the LGBTQ community, a rare instance where a guest’s pushback on the show had consequences well beyond the taping itself.

“Remember you gave me wedding gifts on this show?”

Katy Perry Calls Out A Memory Lapse

DeGeneres running a dating-game bit with Perry in 2017 turned into an unscripted correction when the host forgot Perry had ever been married. Perry wasn’t having it, reminding DeGeneres on camera that she’d once been married to Russell Brand — and that DeGeneres herself had given the couple wedding gifts back when it happened. It’s the kind of moment that lands because it’s true and specific, the exact sort of receipt-pulling covered in other rundowns of Perry’s blunter on-camera moments.

Wendy Williams And Justin Timberlake Pile On

Williams has never been shy about clowning DeGeneres across multiple visits, once asking how she survives without bacon given her vegan diet, and famously offering “some people say that he looks like you” as her clue for Justin Bieber during a round of Heads Up! — a line that got as much of a laugh at DeGeneres’ expense as Bieber’s. Timberlake, meanwhile, got his own dig in publicly, teasing DeGeneres over a drunken text she’d sent him of herself butchering the lyrics to “Can’t Stop the Feeling!,” singing “just electric” instead of “just imagine.” None of it reaches the level of a real feud, but it’s the same rapid-fire retort dynamic covered in breakdowns of celebrities shutting down pushy interviewers — except here, DeGeneres is usually the one left holding the mic and no comeback.

Most of these clips got replayed for laughs rather than controversy, but the Jenner sit-down is the one that actually followed DeGeneres off her own stage. The rest — De Laurentiis’ ruined focaccia, Perry’s wedding-gift correction, Williams’ bacon jab — are just the daily cost of doing business on a couch built for a rotating cast of famous people who don’t always feel like playing straight man to the host.