After more than four years of marriage and nearly nine years together, Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres appear to be as happy as ever.

But Jennifer Aniston, a personal friend of both, got de Rossi to admit this week that there are a few things about her talk show host wife that do kinda bother her.

Aniston, guest co-hosting The Ellen DeGeneres Show, said to de Rossi: 'You guys are so good to each other. But let's face it, what bugs you about Ellen.'

DeGeneres, answering for her wife, said: 'There's nothing!'

The New Zealand MP who shot to international fame when his humorous speech in support of gay marriage went viral will no longer appear on the Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Kate McKinnon, the Saturday Night Live cast member who has made her Ellen DeGeneres impersonation one of her most popular characters on the show, transformed herself while guesting on her idol's daytime show this week.

McKinnon, who like DeGeneres is a lesbian comedienne, appears in the first segment chatting with the host about how she always looked up to her.

'It's been such a journey,' she said. 'I'm trying not to cry because I have loved you my whole life and have just wanted to meet you so badly.'

Anderson Cooper was ranked fifth in OUT magazine's annual top 50 list of powerful gay men and lesbians - the first year he made the list as an openly gay man.

Cooper had made the list year after year - one year even appearing on the cover of the magazine with Jodie Foster - but it wasn't until last summer that Cooper he publicly acknowledged being gay.

Foster, despite her very public coming out speech at the Golden Globe Awards in January, did not make the top 50 list which was unveiled today.

It was in 1997 that Ellen DeGeneres caused a national wave of publicity and debate when she was featured on the cover of TIME magazine with this headline: 'Yep, I'm Gay.'

Twenty-two years earlier, that cover could have been Lily Tomlin's.

Now 73, one of the stars of new movie Admission a cast member of the ABC sitcom Malibu Country, Tomlin did not publicly discuss being a lesbian until 2001 although it had long been an open secret.

'TIME magazine offered me the cover in 1975 if I would come out,' Tomlin tells Entertainment Weekly.

She may be 82 years old, but Betty DeGeneres is a gay rights campaigner who can be extremely outspoken.

Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald, the mother of Ellen has called people who are against gay marriage bullies.

She said politicians who fail to support marriage equality are just ‘bullying’, and said she would love to get a message to Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who is against same-sex marriage.

Openly gay comic Ellen DeGeneres’ daytime talk show was renewed for four more years, it was announced today (11 March).

After marking its 10^th year on the air, the syndicated show was renewed through to the 2016-17 by NBC.

Valari Staab, NBC President, described the show as ‘the crown jewel’ of the daytime lineup.

‘In fact, “Ellen” is the top choice for women 25-54 in her time period in seven of our markets, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, this season,’ Staab said.

Ellen DeGeneres showed her serious side to Australian talk show host Tracy Grimshaw in an interview broadcast on Monday night.

The usually light-hearted TV presenter and actress talked frankly about the dip in her career after she came out publicly in 1997.

Soon after she came out on The Oprah Winfrey Show, DeGeneres' sit com Ellen was cancelled.

Ellen DeGeneres has weighed in on the debate going on within the Boy Scouts of America organization which is considering lifting its ban in openly gay members and leaders.

But being Ellen, she did so by mixing humor with politics to make her point.

During the monologue on her daytime talk show Thursday (7 February), DeGeneres brought up the debate which has now been extended at least through May after the BSA national board delayed taking action this week.

The forever young Ellen DeGeneres turns 55 on Saturday (26 January) and celebrated the occasion on her daytime show today with special guests Katy Perry and Jude Law.

To get us in a pre-celebration mood, Ellen shared highlights from her on-air birthday parties from the past 10 years on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

They have included surprise appearances from the likes of Julia Roberts, Colin Farrell and Pink as well as wife Portia de Rossi performing Happy Birthday as Marilyn Monroe in a funny parody of Monroe singing to John F. Kennedy when he was president.

It's safe to say that the people really love Ellen DeGeneres.

The ever-popular television personality won her 13th People's Choice Award on Wednesday (9 January), this time in the category of Favorite Daytime Talk Show Host.

'It’s 2013, this is my 13th People’s Choice Award,' DeGeneres said as she accepted the honor. 'It is exactly as the Mayans predicted. So far, they got one right.'

DeGeneres, accompanied the Los Angeles ceremony by wife Portia de Rossi  also thanked everyone 'on her team.'

Lesbian comic and television host Ellen DeGeneres is just one of several celebrities demanding an end to gun violence in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting.

Among the other artists making an appearance in the video also include Beyoncé, Julianne Moore, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Renner, Chris Rock and Will Ferrell.

The black-and-white video begins with the celebrities talking about the Columbine shootings in 1999, Virginia Tech in 2007 and Aurora, Colorado this year.