- Trisha Paytas shared her experience on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in 2010 in the last episode of her podcast “Frenemies”.
- In the episode, Paytas called Ellen DeGeneres “ab —-” and said she was instructed not to look at or touch DeGeneres.
- DeGeneres said earlier in a team call with employees that she did not know where the rumor came from not to look her in the eye, Page Six reported in August 2020.
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Internet personality Trisha Paytas spoke about her participation in 2010 on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in the last episode of her podcast “Frenemies”, which she presents with Ethan Klein of H3H3, calling the controversial presenter Ellen DeGeneres “ab — – “and saying that she was not allowed to touch her.
Paytas appeared on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in 2010, when he was 22, to show his talent in dynamic reading as part of a segment of talent in the audience. In the clip, Paytas gushed over DeGeneres, reaching out to touch it and then pulling his hand back, saying that she shouldn’t touch the host before starting to recite what appears to be DeGeneres’ book “My Spot” … And I have a. “
Paytas said that, in a pre-Instagram era, she wanted to be famous and made her way into the program by posting on YouTube. “My thought was, if I go to all these shows, someone will find out about me,” she said on the podcast. “I thought Ellen would discover me and I would be like a co-host of her. That was my thinking process.”
Her experience on the set did not live up to her expectations, she said.
“When all this started to come out [about Ellen], I thought, it makes sense because she was so horrible. Literally, I wouldn’t speak. They tell you … ‘don’t look her in the eye, don’t touch her,’ “said Paytas, referring to statements by celebrities and ordinary people in 2020 that portrayed Ellen as bad or cold.
Others have made similar claims in the past about working with DeGeneres. Australian broadcaster Neil Breen said during a segment of his radio show, “4BC Breakfast”, that his team received specific instructions to work with DeGeneres when he worked as a producer on Australia’s “Today” program. Breen claimed that his team was instructed not to speak or look at DeGeneres.
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Page Six reported in August 2020 that, according to anonymous sources, DeGeneres described the supposed rule that people shouldn’t look her in the eye as “crazy”, saying she didn’t know where it all started and asking employees to ” looked [her] In the eye. “
Both DeGeneres and his program were criticized during the summer of 2020, with BuzzFeed News reporting that a current and ten former employees claimed that the program had a “toxic” work environment in which they were subject to racism and intimidation. A second BuzzFeed News report contained allegations from dozens of former employees saying that the show’s executive producers had been involved in sexual misconduct.
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DeGeneres addressed the controversy in the opening monologue for the 18th season of her show, saying that she “takes responsibility for what happens on my show.”
A DeGeneres representative declined to comment. Paytas did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.