The Reason Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi Are Selling Their $30 Million Cotswolds Home in the United Kingdom.
Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres have once again moved. In order to make room for Portia's animals, the former talk show host and her spouse are selling their Cotswolds house and moving to a different nearby residence, eight months after they first arrived in the United Kingdom.
In a statement released on July 22, Ellen told The Wall Street Journal, “When we decided to live here full time, we knew that Portia couldn't live without her horses,” “We needed a home that had a horse facility and pastures for them.”
The 43-acre estate in the English countryside, Kitesbridge Farm, is currently being sold by the comedian and Arrested Development actress.
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The farm was "quite tired, with a quite basic finish," listing agent Andrew Barnes told the Journal, so Ellen and Portia paid around $20 million for the property in the spring of 2024 and undertook extensive renovations.
Kitesbridge Farm, which has a party barn with its own tavern, a gym, and a heated indoor pool, is currently for sale for over $30 million.
The Finding Dory star revealed earlier this month that the couple chose to move permanently to the United Kingdom after President Donald Trump was re-elected, even though they had originally intended to live there part-time.
During a public engagement in Cheltenham, England, on July 20, Ellen stated, "We got here the day before the election and woke up to lots of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, 'He got in'," according to the BBC. "And we're like, 'We're staying here.'"
The comedian and her spouse, who commemorated their 20th wedding anniversary in March, also have a deep affection for the nation.
"It's absolutely beautiful," she went on. "We're just not used to seeing this kind of beauty. The villages and the towns and the architecture—everything you see is charming and it's just a simpler way of life.”
That’s such a vivid and heartfelt line, sounds like someone marveling at a world that’s refreshingly different from their own.
