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People Are Once Again Reexamining Ellen DeGeneres’s Past Dynamic With Her Talk Show Guests After Michelle Obama Recalled The Time She Was Made To Do Push-Ups On Air
"My first term, she challenged me to a push-up competition. I'm the First Lady!"
Of course, Michelle was the First Lady of the United States at the time, with her husband, Barack Obama, having been elected president in 2008. For context, before Ellen’s talk show went off air in 2022 — roughly two years after BuzzFeed News published an investigative piece about the alleged toxic environment on set — the host was repeatedly accused of pushing her guests' boundaries and making them uncomfortable. This scrutiny has only increased since the show came to an end, with several people reexamining the dynamic between Ellen and her guests.
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