Overview
- Ellen DeGeneres, who marked the couple’s 18th wedding anniversary on Sunday, Aug. 16, posted a warm Instagram message saying she feels “lucky” to spend her life with Portia de Rossi and shared a recent photo of them together.
- The Instagram image shows the pair sitting closely on a sunlit step in casual clothes and sunglasses, and the comment thread included congratulations from celebrity friends including Kris Jenner.
- Sources report the couple were likely traveling in Botswana or Rwanda around the anniversary based on photos and short videos DeGeneres posted in the days before the tribute.
- The post follows the couple’s move to the Cotswolds after leaving the United States and comes with the broader backdrop of DeGeneres’s 2020 workplace controversy and the end of The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2022, which shifted their public profile toward private life.
- DeGeneres and de Rossi first began dating in late 2004 and were married on Aug. 16, 2008 in an intimate backyard ceremony attended by about 19 guests that featured custom Zac Posen outfits, a Joshua Radin performance, and an all‑vegan dinner and cake.