Hooray! Ellen DeGeneres is to marry longtime girlfriend Portia de Rossi. Following California's Supreme Court's ban lift on the same-sex marriage in the state, the host of The Ellen DeGeneres Show announces to tie the knot with Australian lesbian partner Portia de Rossi in the tape above aired today. Ellen said
This is very exciting. Yesterday, we have heard that California's Supreme Court overturned the ban on gay marriage. So now, I would like to say for the first time, right now, I'm getting married.
Gay couple: Ellen DeGeneres & girlfriend Portia de Rossi are to getting married as the same-sex marriage in California is constitutional. (Picture: Seriouslyomg.com)
Ellen DeGeneres, 50, and Portia de Rossi, 35, an actress who appeared on the FOX sitcom Arrested Development, dated since December 2004.