After several warnings from the WGA (Writers Guild of America East), Ellen DeGeneres has decided to end her scheduled taping of the Ellen show in New York City. Her show was scheduled to tape in NYC November 19th and 20th.
The WGA had expressed its anger towards Ellen for continuing to stay live despite her membership in the Writers Guild.
Writers Guild of America East President Michael Winship issued the following statement:
“We’re delighted that Ellen DeGeneres has decided not to come to New York to tape her program. She knows that the Writers Guild East would have been there to protest her lack of solidarity, not only with her Guild writing staff but all the striking members of the Writers Guild, of which she is a member. We will be even more delighted if she does not cross the Guild picket lines at the NBC Studios in Burbank, where her show usually is produced.”
Instead of her scheduled show in NYC, she plans to do a show to honor Kanye West’s mother who recently passed away. DeGeneres stated that Kanye’s relationship to his mother was as strong as her relationship to her own mother.
