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Ellen's Most Memorable TV Show Moments
Ellen DeGeneres is ending her show after 19 seasons on air ... to celebrate her last episode ever, we take a look back at some of her most memorable moments.
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2003 - Ellen Degeneres dances her way into the hearts of her viewers and includes Jennifer Aniston as her first guest ... and was gifted a 'Welcome' mat for the new show.
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2004 - Ellen wins her first Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show ... and goes on to win 32 total for her role on her title TV show.
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2007 - Ellen shared the stage with the Then-Senetaor Barack Obama as he made his first of many appearances on the show and even danced with Ellen before winning the Presidency.
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2008 - Ellen celebrates the California Supreme Court overturning the ban on gay marriage by announcing her engagement to her longtime girlfriend Portia de Rossi.
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2009 - Ellen hides in the guest bathroom of Taylor Swifts dressing room for the show and hilariously scares her by jumping out from the corner ... starting a tradition that is now an iconic part of the show's laughs.
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2010 - Ellen staffers make show history after Aaron surprises his girlfriend by faking a technical difficulty and showing up on stage to ask Jen to marry him.
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2011 - English kids Sophia Grace and Rosie were shocked when they were joined on set by Nicki Minaj after their cover of the song "Super Bass" went viral.
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2012 - Kobe Bryant surprises his number one fan with a impromptu shootout for the young basketball enthusiast to win tickets to a Lakers game ... and let the young man win!
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2013 - Ellen worked out a chance reunion of the "Friends" cast in a silly sketch ... long before the iconic actors joined back up for the official reunion in 2021.
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2013 - Ellen Degeneres caught the attention, an eyeballs, of her viewers when she broke out a busty Halloween costume of the rapper Nicki Minaj.
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2013 - 'Saturday Night Live' star Kate McKinnon brought her skit version of Ellen's show persona which made for a hilarious split screen of the two identical characters.
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2014 - Noah Ritter, better known as the 'Apparently' kid, appeared alongside Ellen which made for a gut-busting back and forth between Noah and Degeneres.
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2014 - Ellen Degeneres was tapped to host the 86th Annual Academy Awards and in the middle of the broadcast got a group of the night's hottest stars together for the most iconic selfie ever taken.
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2015 - Caitlyn Jenner joined Ellen Degeneres for a touching conversation where Caitlyn opened up about her life, family and transition in Hollywood.
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2015 - Will Smith broke out into song while making a guest appearance on Ellen and surprised the audience by rapping the theme song for his show "The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air."
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2016 - President Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to a teary-eyed Ellen DeGeneres alongside other big stars like Robert DeNiro, Tom Hanks and Michael Jordan.
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2016 - Hillary Clinton stopped by the Ellen studio and graciously work with Degeneres to learn how to correctly execute the fad dance move the 'Dab'.
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2016 - Kanye West stunned Ellen with an off-the-cuff conversation that did not go as planned ... resulting in West taking the show on an unplanned show detour.
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2016 - Ellen and Michelle Obama spent the day walking the isles of an unsuspecting CVS pharmacy and made some hilarious moments while making light of a mundane store outing.
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2017 - Kim Kardashian sits down with Ellen and opens up about the incident where armed gunmen broke into Kim's Paris apartment, taped her mouth shut and stole more than $10 million in jewelry.
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2018 - Khloe Kardashian joined Ellen to talk about life ... but the convo quickly shifted to a coy back and forth about Kylie Jenner pregnancy rumors.
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2018 - Portia de Rossi surprises Ellen on her 60th birthday and brought Ellen to tears after gifting her a campus with her namesake at the Dian Fosset Gorilla Fund.
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2019 - Dakota Johnson sat down with Ellen and traded jabs in an incredibly awkward interview about missed invites to parties and who is Dakota's favorite comedian ... spoiler it wasn't Ellen.
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2019 - Kourtney Kardashian left it all on the table with Ellen after she played an up-front game of who'd you rather that included big celebrities like John Mayer vs. Shawn Mendes.
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2019 - Sarah Paulson's scare skits were a long-running joke on the Ellen show ... but it reach the peak funny fear when she was surprised by not one, but two scare ninjas.
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2020 - Demi Lovato opened up about her life, her highly-publicized relapse in 2018 and the struggles she overcome with eating disorders.
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2020 - Ellen makes a quick pivot in April of 2020 to continue to deliver her show while staying safe at home while the world braced for a global Covid-19 pandemic.
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2021 - Ellen makes an emotional announcement that she would be be staying with the show for one final season and it would come to and end after 19 seasons.
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2021 - Ellen's staffer Andy makes one final trip to a haunted house ... but is joined by Kim Kardashian in a final hilarious spooky bit.
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2022 - Ellen and Michelle Obama continue their BFF antics in a final outting ... this time it including a bullhorn and a golf cart around the backlot of Warner Bros. Studios.
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2022 - A grown-up version of Sophia Grace and Rosie rejoined Ellen 11 years after their show debut to perform "Super Bass" one final time in a touching tribute.
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2022 - Ellen's staff gather to share some of their most fond moments while working on the Ellen show and showcased the great opportunities they had to help everyday heroes in the world.
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