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Patrick Warburton is being honest about his less-than-friendly encounter with Ellen Degeneres …which he says was caused when he rejected the comedian.
The actor stopped by SiriusXM’s “The Spotlight with Jessica Shaw,” where he reflected on his guest spot on Ellen’s self-titled ’90s sitcom. As he put it… Ellen and her team were eager to have Patrick in more episodes, but he turned the gig down… as he was ready to “move on.”
To Patrick’s credit, he simply didn’t want to do guest appearances anymore… so he told Ellen and company that he was conflicted.
While that should have been the end of the saga, Patrick claimed that Ellen didn’t handle the rejection well — and confronted him when he was having dinner with a friend in Beverly Hills.
He recalled… “Ellen came up to the table and said, ‘Too big to do my show right now, huh?’ and I said, ‘No, Ellen.’ I said, ‘I just had a conflict,’ which she probably realized was just bullshit and walked away.”
According to Patrick, this drama was the reason he was never invited back onto Ellen’s highly successful talk show, which ran for 19 seasons.
He added… “She was rejected.”
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This isn’t the first time Ellen has been called out for being less than friendly. Her eponymous chat the show was put into practice a few years ago after it was dubbed a toxic workplace by current and former employees.
Don’t forget the time Dakota Johnson put ED in her place for lying about not being invited to the actress’s birthday party.
It seems her slogan “be kind to each other” doesn’t work anymore.