Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi may be eyeing a return to the US. After a year spent in the UK, the retired talk show host and comedian has purchased a $27.4 million estate in California, per Realtor. DeGeneres and her wife, actor Portia de Rossi, are said to have closed on a mansion in Montecito, California—the same celebrity-studded enclave where the couple resided for years before moving across the pond. Which begs the question: Are Ellen de Generes and Portia de Rossi moving back to the US?
DeGeneres has made major shifts to her real estate portfolio in recent years. The Emmy-decorated comedian wiped several high-profile homes in the US from her slate—including a Montecito bungalow that sold for $5.2 million in March 2025—to live in England in the Cotswolds, a quiet cluster of villages roughly two hours outside of London. The couple initially planned to spend time in the rural hub just a few months out of the year, but made a more permanent move after President Donald Trump’s 2024 election win. “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,’” DeGeneres told British press of the move. “And we’re like, ‘We’re staying here…Everything here is just better—the way animals are treated, people are polite. I just love it here.”
DeGeneres and de Rossi snapped up two English farmhouses: their now-former primary residence, which is currently listed for $30 million; and a modern $20 million estate, dubbed the Kitesbridge Farm, in Swinbrook, Oxfordshire. “When we decided to live here full time, we knew that Portia couldn’t live without her horses,” DeGeneres previously told the Wall Street Journal about their relocation. “We needed a home that had a horse facility and pastures for them.”
Now, along with putting one of their British farmhouses on the market, the pair have purchased a new Montecito estate back across the pond, further intensifying speculation that they may be planning a full-time move back to the US. The abode in Montecito, which was purchased in November in an off-market sale from music producer Brian Grazer, marks DeGeneres’s first real estate purchase in the US since her move to the Cotswolds. The dwelling, which Grazer originally bought in 2012 for $7.6 million, reportedly sits on a secluded three-acre parcel and features a main residence and two guest cottages. It would definitely be a soft place to land if the pair decide to call California home again.
