Ellen’s latest movie role prompts insane reaction online
Ellen DeGeneres is returning to her most beloved role.
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Ellen DeGeneres is returning to one of her most beloved roles. On Friday, Deadline reported that Pixar is making a short movie set within the Finding Nemo universe.
DeGeneres played the role of the ditzy blue fish, Dory, in Finding Nemo in 2003. She returned for the sequel, Finding Dory, in 2016. Both movies were blockbuster successes.
DeGeneres has also voiced Dory for Disney theme park attractions.
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There are currently no plot details or a release date for the short. However, appearing to confirm she’ll be voicing Dory again, DeGeneres reshared the Deadline article on her social media.
“Excited about this,” she commented.
“Kids are friends, not food”
Some of her followers also expressed excitement about the project. However, many others had a different take. Literally hundreds of conspiracy theorists waded into the comments to ask if Dory turns out to be a child-eater.
“Kids are friends, not food,” was one comment prompting over 1,700 likes. It’s a pun on the “Fish are friends, not food” line said by Bruce the shark in Finding Nemo.
The post did not fare much better on Facebook. Ellen appears to have now limited who can comment. But not before hundreds of people threw in accusations around cannibalism and pizzagate.
Should you be wondering what on earth all this talk about cannibalism is about, it comes down to the Epstein Files. Apparently, there are a few references to Ellen. None of them suggests she got up to anything untoward. They are largely found in articles related to celebrities or in tweets mentioning the her iconic daytime talk show that were sent to Jeffrey Epstein.
There are also a few references to cannibalism.
According to a fact-check by Snopes, of the 52 references to cannibalism, “The mentions of ‘cannibal’ or ‘cannibalism’ included media digests; an academic syllabus; a transcript of a conversation between Epstein and a man named ‘Richard,’ and an email from Epstein to an unknown person about jerky and ‘a restaurant called Cannibal’.”
There are zero mentions together of DeGeneres and cannibalism. Snopes decided that claims linking DeGeneres to cannabilism are false. Despite this, a bizarre number of people online seem to have fallen for the wild conspiracy theory hook, line and sinker (fishing pun unintended).
The sheer volume of people commenting on DeGeneres’ latest post is, frankly, alarming. At a time when we have never had a greater ability to mine the depths of human knowledge, misinformation instead spreads rapidly.
“It took a long time for me to want to do anything again”
Ellen is best-known for the 19 seasons of her titular show, which came to an end in 2022 after former staff members made allegations about a toxic workplace culture behind the scenes.
In her own 2024 stand-up special, Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval, DeGeneres addressed the controversy, saying she was “kicked out of show business” for being “mean.”
She also said she “hated the way the show ended” because she “loved that show so much.”
“I’m making jokes about what happened to me, but it was devastating,” she said. “It took a long time for me to want to do anything again.”
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