Although she was certainly famous before its inception, The Ellen DeGeneres Show has undeniably turned its host and top boss into one of America's biggest household names.
In addition to serving as a platform for DeGeneres to interview and play pranks on a long list of A-list celebrities, the show also owes its wide appeal to its cultivated atmosphere of positivity encapsulated by her "be kind" tagline.
Of course, that branding would end up working against both DeGeneres and her show when longtime suspicions that there was a toxic work environment behind its production came to a boiling point during the summer of 2020.
But for anyone wondering if this recent spate of bad publicity influenced DeGeneres' recent announcement that the show will soon be coming to an end, the truth is that she's been looking for an exit from the juggernaut she spawned for years.
