Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia De Rossi are selling the U.K. house they moved to after permanently leaving the U.S.
According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, published on Tuesday, July 22, the couple’s 43-acre estate in the Cotswolds, titled “Kitesbridge Farm,” is listed for approximately $30 million.
The outlet noted that DeGeneres, 67, and De Rossi, 52, paid “about $20 million” for the property in spring 2024, ahead of the pair relocating from California to England in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s reelection.
In a statement shared with the outlet on Tuesday, DeGeneres explained her family’s decision regarding their original English retreat. “When we decided to live here full time, we knew that Portia couldn’t live without her horses,” the statement read. “We needed a home that had a horse facility and pastures for them.”
The couple, who married in August 2008, reportedly relocated to a nearby home in the U.K. that serves as a more appropriate base for De Rossi’s animals.
On the market via Sotheby’s International Realty, the seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom estate was “imagined over the past year,” per the property’s listing.
It also features a two-bedroom guest cottage with a kitchen and sitting room, plus a “heated” five-car garage with its own kitchenette, a “party barn” with a bar, a heated indoor swimming pool, a gym, helicopter shed, a kitchen garden, multiple outdoor living areas and a covered dining space within a courtyard.
DeGeneres confirmed her decision to leave the U.S. during a live conversation with British broadcaster Richard Bacon on Sunday, July 20. She explained at the event, staged at the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham, that she and De Rossi planned on living in the Cotswolds for “three months of the year, or four months of the year,” but changed their plans to stay permanently after Trump, 79, became President.
“We got here [to England] the day before the election and we woke up to lots of texts from our friends and crying emojis,” DeGeneres told the crowd at Sunday’s event. “We were like, ‘We’re staying here, we’re not going back, we are not leaving.’ So yeah, we bought a house that we thought was going to be a part-time house then we decided we needed a different house and now we’re selling that house. If anybody wants a house. It’s a beautiful house. It’s a beautiful stone farmhouse.”
DeGeneres also touched on what she loves about life in the U.K., revealing that “the people” are favorable as is one of the nation’s most famed dishes. “Fish and chips are delicious, yes,” she said before praising the British countryside. “It’s absolutely beautiful. We are just not used to seeing this kind of beauty,” DeGeneres explained. “Everything you see is charming and it’s just a simpler way of life. It’s clean and everything here is better. The way animals are treated, the way people are polite. I just love it here.”
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