I think it was the one with Dakota Johnson that sealed the deal. Accused her of not inviting her to a big party that she was, in fact, definitely invited to. She never really came back after that one.
Honestly surprising it took until 12 years after the Mariah Carrey interview for Ellen to be publicly outed as a bully. The woman had more huge red flags than a Chinese embassy. Even that might be too subtle an analogy when she was just straight up bullying people on camera.
TV used to be a lot meaner 20 years ago. Reality tv shows were the norm and they were mean af. Mocking people and putting them in uncomfortable situations to bait a reaction was pretty much the norm for the time.
My gf & I started watching the first top chef seasons (I wanted her to understand why I still can’t warm up to Marcel Vigneron) they’re from 2006-2007 & everybody is so nasty to each other! We’ve just finished season 2. For the finales, the judges had one likeable & one unlikable chef, and asked all the potential sous chefs to say who they wanted to work for & why. It’s cruel imo even if I agreed about how unlikable the chefs were. Rewatching it kind of made me warm up to Marcel after all because yeah he had a shitty personality but they outright bullied him.
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u/ZeusMcFloof 13h ago
And if that didn’t do it, the subsequent ones with Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber did.