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  • Oprah Winfrey Was Cast As Ellen Morgan's Therapist To 'Legitimize' Her Coming Out on Random Things When Ellen DeGeneres Came Out Publicly

    (#5) Oprah Winfrey Was Cast As Ellen Morgan's Therapist To 'Legitimize' Her Coming Out

    Ellen DeGeneres personally asked a number of actors to appear as guest stars in the episode, including Oprah Winfrey, who played Ellen Morgan's therapist. In 1997, The Oprah Winfrey Show and its host were universally watched, respected, and beloved.

    In 2017, DeGeneres interviewed Winfrey on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to celebrate the 20th anniversary of "The Puppy Episode." DeGeneres explained why she wanted Winfrey to play the therapist: "You would legitimize all of it. People would go, 'Oh, we're not trying to make a joke of this. This is actually serious.'"

    Winfrey responded: "I so believed in your truth, and I so wanted to support you... You were the bravest woman ever."

  • 'The Ellen Degeneres Show' Premiered On NBC In 2003 And Remains Widely Popular on Random Things When Ellen DeGeneres Came Out Publicly

    (#13) 'The Ellen Degeneres Show' Premiered On NBC In 2003 And Remains Widely Popular

    In 2003, Ellen DeGeneres made history once again by being the second LGBTQ+ woman to host a major daytime talk show (Rosie O'Donnell was the first). The Ellen DeGeneres Show, which has won 11 Daytime Emmy Awards from 2007 through 2019 for outstanding talk show/entertainment talk show, was renewed in 2019 until 2022.

    DeGeneres offers a kind, "negative-free" atmosphere on the show, interviewing celebrities and extraordinary real people, playing games, dancing, and interacting with and empowering audiences.

    DeGeneres also hosts NBC's Ellen’s Game of Games

  • ABC Wanted To Give Ellen's Character A Puppy Instead Of A Romantic Relationship on Random Things When Ellen DeGeneres Came Out Publicly

    (#1) ABC Wanted To Give Ellen's Character A Puppy Instead Of A Romantic Relationship

    Like any network cautious of losing viewership, ABC was initially against the idea of both versions of Ellen coming out. In 2017, celebrating the 20th anniversary of "The Puppy Episode" on her talk show, Ellen DeGeneres said during her opening monologue that executives told writers - in response to their plan to have the character Ellen come out so she could pursue a relationship on the show - to just give her a puppy.

    Eventually, the network came around, but to maintain the secrecy of the episode's plot, the title "The Puppy Episode" stuck.

  • More Than 42 Million People Watched The Episode on Random Things When Ellen DeGeneres Came Out Publicly

    (#6) More Than 42 Million People Watched The Episode

    A staggeringly large audience tuned in to watch Ellen's coming out, making it the most viewed episode of the series with 42 million people.

    In comparison, the only episode of Friends to beat this level of viewership was the series finale in 2004, with 52 million people. Viewing parties for Ellen were held coast to coast, and cheers erupted as she uttered the words, "I'm gay."

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    (#2) Some Advertisers Pulled Out - But Others Welcomed The Opportunity To Reach New Audiences

    According to The New York Times, some advertisers were hesitant to show ads the night of "The Puppy Episode," but not all were willing to speak openly about it. Chrysler was one of the few that did, saying through a spokesperson:

    We don't think it is a smart business decision to be advertising in an environment that is so polarized... It is not a content issue at all. We don't want to sit in judgment of what a TV show is doing about [relationship] preference. It's a business decision about trying to stay out of the fray. The environment around this is so angry we feel we lose no matter what we do.

    Other advertisers, such as E-Trade, took advantage of what was expected to be a large audience - including LGBTQ+ people - to air ads during the episode. 

    Volkswagen aired an ad that featured two men who drive a VW Golf. The ad was "not really about sexuality, nor does it endorse a particular lifestyle," a spokesman said at the time. "It's about advertising our products to a target audience of drivers, which matches the viewers of Ellen and which would include many different life styles.''

    Organizations such as the Family Research Council, which describes itself as "dedicated to articulating and advancing a family-centered philosophy of public life" and believes LGBTQ+ "conduct is harmful," asked advertisers to pull out of the episode:

    The only option, one that is as American as apple pie, is to ask advertisers not to support programming that viewers feel is objectionable and to let them know that if they do, viewers will vote with their wallets the next time they are in the grocery store.

  • Ellen Had Privately Been Out To Her Close Friends, Cast Members, And Writing Staff on Random Things When Ellen DeGeneres Came Out Publicly

    (#4) Ellen Had Privately Been Out To Her Close Friends, Cast Members, And Writing Staff

    Before "The Puppy Episode," Ellen DeGeneres had been silent in public about her LGBTQ+ orientation.

    In the late 1980s, upon moving to West Hollywood, she had a series of female "roommates" (as described by Megan Mullally on The Ellen DeGeneres Show), but maintained boundaries while she pursued a career in the public eye. At the time, identifying as anything other than "straight" was seen as a risk or even a career-ender.

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Ellen DeGeneres is not only a comedy performer, show host, and actor, but also a writer and producer. She is currently the only host in the world who has hosted the Oscars, Grammy Awards, and Emmy Awards. There is no doubt that her act of publicly coming out on TV has aroused extensive discussion and reports from the public and the media. Ellen has always been a homosexual, and she does not want to deceive anyone, even if she suffered unfair treatment after coming out.

Allen came out publicly in front of nearly one million people in the United States, that is amazing at that time. Here the random tool introduced 14 detailed stories that happened when she came out on TV.

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