Ellen DeGeneres, the Cotswolds and the Meghan Markle connection: The die-hard liberal US star is fleeing Trump, so could she tempt the Duchess of Sussex back to follow her?

It is simply a agelong mode from sunny Montecito, California, to England's presently distinctly chilly Cotswolds.

But that is the determination American superstar and enthusiastic Democrat protagonist Ellen DeGeneres was this week said to beryllium readying successful the aftermath of Donald Trump's re-election arsenic Republican president.

And portion it mightiness look a astonishing determination for a pistillate who has made hundreds of millions from hosting a deed daytime chat amusement connected the different broadside of the Atlantic, it intriguingly mirrors, successful reverse, the celebrated determination of 1 of her friends.

For Ms DeGeneres, 66, is adjacent to the Duchess of Sussex – who herself lived successful the bosom of the Cotswolds with her hubby Prince Harry not agelong earlier they famously discontinue Britain to settee successful Montecito.

The TV star's relationship with her Californian neighbour Meghan progressive her convincing the estranged royal to follow a labrador-German shepherd transverse erstwhile they bumped into each different astatine a canine structure adjacent their homes.

Miss DeGeneres had antecedently visited the Duke and Duchess portion they were inactive surviving successful Britain, astatine Frogmore Cottage, their location successful Windsor, and adjacent helped provender their young lad Archie.

But portion the Sussexes are staying enactment successful sunny California, Miss DeGeneres and her Australian histrion woman Portia de Rossi, 51, are reported to person already bought a location successful the Cotswolds, and to beryllium preparing to sell their sprawling property successful Montecito.

American sources person claimed the brace were 'very disillusioned' by Mr Trump's victory, and program to 'get the hellhole out' of and 'never return' to America.

One person said: 'Ellen has fallen successful emotion with the spot successful the Cotswolds. She has been connected the lookout for a location successful the country and often visits her personage pals.

'A Cotswolds location has go a presumption awesome successful the personage satellite - and Ellen wanted to articulation the pack.'

But precisely however she volition acceptable into the Cotswolds remains to beryllium seen.

Controversialist TV presenter Piers Morgan responded to the quality of her imminent residence with diagnostic bluntness, saying yesterday: 'OMG…no!'

But Ms DeGeneres has already been connected proceedings runs successful the Cotswolds, arsenic good arsenic having erstwhile acquisition of landing connected her feet aft an evident setback.

This beauteous agrarian hilly country spanning parts of not lone Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, but besides Wiltshire, Somerset, Worcestershire and Warwickshire, has successful caller years go a British personage hotspot, a mates of hours' thrust from London.

At the bosom of the societal country is the agrarian outpost of elite backstage members' nine Soho House, adjacent to the beauteous thatched-cottage honeyed chromatic colony of Great Tew, Oxfordshire.

Meghan had her 2018 hen enactment astatine the state nine – and she and Prince Harry for immoderate clip rented a £1.4million 18th-century state location walking region away.

Not acold successful the other absorption from Soho House is the state residence of David and Victoria Beckham, an expensively converted postulation of 3 barns made from that classical Cotswold honey-coloured stone.

Although the reported 'ethical veganism' of Ms DeGeneres whitethorn seem astatine likelihood with the views of immoderate Cotswolds farmers, she has successful caller days been astatine the Oxfordshire hostelry of nary different than TV presenter-turned-farmer and nutrient enthusiast Jeremy Clarkson.

This precise week the American TV big and her woman – who appeared successful Ally McBeal and Arrested Development - were filmed astatine Clarkson's Cotswolds pub The Farmer's Dog, with erstwhile Army serviceman popular prima James Blunt.

And it was surely not Ms DeGeneres' archetypal societal juncture successful Oxfordshire. A twelvemonth agone she was spotted astatine a enactment astatine a 17th-century stately location there, sharing a DJ booth with British histrion Idris Elba, prima of television's Luther.

News of her plans to settee present travel 30 years aft she roseate to fame successful Britain acknowledgment to her drama amusement Ellen, which was broadcast connected Channel 4 successful Britain.

After breaking into showbusiness via stand-up drama connected the nine circuit, the New Orleans native's archetypal eponymous amusement featured her fundamentally playing herself arsenic a young azygous bookshop worker, amid a radical of friends, successful what became a deed sitcom.

That deed came to an extremity a twelvemonth aft Ms DeGeneres successful 1997 amazed her mother, if not each her friends, by coming retired arsenic a lesbian.

She made her large announcement connected a programme hosted by US TV elephantine Oprah Winfrey - arsenic her aboriginal person Meghan was aboriginal to bash successful a tell-all interrogation astir her and Harry's determination to permission Britain.

The Ellen show's eventual producer, however, was Disney, and successful the blimpish 1990s, parental warnings started to beryllium enactment connected surface earlier each broadcast earlier the amusement was yet cancelled.

Six years later, however, Ms DeGeneres changeable backmost to fame.

She provided the dependable for forgetful food Dory successful the blockbuster animated movie Finding Nemo – and became a large unit successful showbusiness with her caller eponymous TV smash, the Ellen DeGeneres show.

It went connected to marque her a immense luck - immoderate £60m a twelvemonth - and she became friends with Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates and Democrat president Barack Obama, who successful 2016 gave her America's apical civilian honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Ms DeGeneres' years of daytime TV supremacy, which progressive playing pranks successful a buying promenade with troubled popular prima Britney Spears, came to an extremity 2 years agone aft a ungraded implicit alleged bullying down the scenes.

Just arsenic the Duchess of Sussex was accused of bullying Royal unit successful Britain – claims that person been firmly denied – determination were wide broadcast allegations that Ms DeGeneres had presided implicit a 'toxic workplace' down the scenes of her show.

Producers were said to person sacked 1 TV worker for taking clip disconnected for a funeral, and to person warned visitors not to speech to the show's host, with 36 unit making claims.

Ms DeGeneres yet apologised to members of her squad aft an interior study found 'deficiencies related to the show's day-to-day management'. Ratings plummeted from supra 4million viewers, to small much than 1million.

It was peculiarly ironic successful airy of her farewell pay-off to viewers astatine the extremity of each episode, 'Be benignant to 1 another'.

In May 2021, aft the bullying storm, Ms Degeneres announced her amusement would beryllium coming to an extremity the pursuing year, aboriginal joking that she had been 'kicked retired of amusement business'.

She had besides said: 'I request thing caller to situation me.'

And with her time occupation gone, and intelligibly nary wealth worries, friends person said the predetermination of Hollywood liberals' nightmare Mr Trump has led her to her determination to permission America.

On apical of much imaginable pints astatine Clarkson's pub, she whitethorn present bump into chap Cotswolds location owners including supermodel Kate Moss.

Star trek and Shakespearean histrion Patrick Stewart, model-cum-actress Elizabeth Hurley, decorator Stella McCartney, and super-wealthy creator Damien Hirst are each Oxfordshire enthusiasts excessively – portion thespian Hugh Grant has agelong been believed to person a state hideaway there.

It is casual to spot wherefore Jilly Cooper's raunchy caller Rivals, precocious adapted for television, was acceptable successful the glamorous Cotswolds.

And it is casual to spot Ms DeGeneres fitting close in. Her beingness could adjacent tempt erstwhile neighbour the Duchess of Sussex backmost crossed the Atlantic to articulation her for a portion astatine Soho Farmhouse, the Oxfordshire outpost of trendy backstage members' nine Soho House.

Particularly if Prince Harry fancies catching up with his begetter the King, whose long-favourite state home, Highgrove House successful Gloucestershire, lies wrong the Cotswolds.