Rosie O'Donnell may have paved the way for Ellen DeGeneres, but the 60-year-old actress and TV personality never appeared on DeGeneres' long-lived talk show.
DeGeneres, now 64, jokingly came out as «Lebanese» on in 1996 ahead of her character coming out as a lesbian on her show. At the time, O'Donnell hinted that she too was a member of the LGBTQ+ community years before she publicly came out.
But O'Donnell never appeared on On Thursday's, a fan asked why O'Donnell never appeared as a guest throughout the 19-season run of DeGeneres' famed talk show. «We had a little bit of a weird thing,» O'Donnell told Cohen of DeGeneres. «After my show went off the air and hers was coming on the air, Larry King was on with Ellen and he said, 'Whatever happened to Rosie O'Donnell?
Her show went down the tubes. She came out as a lesbian and disappeared!' And Ellen said, and I'm quoting, 'I don't know Rosie.
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