Geelong Prepares To Make Ellen DeGeneres An Honorary G-Banger

This is some news that will no doubt make the author of this tribute video very happy indeed: if we are to believe Peter “Look Ma, I Made A Real Live Career Out Of This!” Timbs’ entertainment reportage, Portia de Rossi plans to bring her fiancee Ellen DeGeneres to meet the family in Geelong over summer before they wed.

This is also good news for the Australian tabloid media, who are always keen to claim a celebrity as “ours” after tenuous connections to the country are established – welcome to the crew, Ellen!

TV Week writer Peter Timbs appeared on Fox FM’s Kyle and Jackie O Show on Monday where he announced the news.

He told radio listeners de Rossi, who grew up in Grovedale, would introduce DeGeneres, a US talk show host, to the family on their first trip Down Under as a couple. But it is de Rossi’s Geelong-based grandmother who is set to get the first visit.

“She (Ellen) actually wants to meet the grandmother,” Timbs said.

“Portia is quite close with the grandmother in Geelong and Ellen talks to her on the phone all the time but hasn’t met her face to face.

“But she is coming over at Christmas time to meet granny at last.”

Aww, dear old nanna Rogers will likely be thrilled to be in the papers, and we hope Ellen enjoys her time in G-Town. Maybe she can visit the National Wool Museum!

NB: that is not some sort of celebrity lesbian in-joke/code, it’s just something to do in Geelong.