Ellen DeGeneres cancels four comedy stand-up dates

US broadcaster and comic Ellen DeGeneres has cancelled 4 dates connected her stand-up drama tour.

"Unfortunately, the lawsuit organiser has had to cancel your event," said a enactment connected Ticketmaster's website, listing shows successful Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle and Chicago arsenic the ones affected.

It is unclear wherefore the dates person been dropped arsenic different dates successful those cities are inactive going ahead. The circuit is presently scheduled to tally until 17 August.

It marks her instrumentality to the spotlight 2 years aft the cancellation of the Ellen DeGeneres speech show, aft employees accused enforcement producers implicit "toxic workplace" claims.

Three producers were fired amid allegations of misconduct and intersexual harassment and DeGeneres apologised connected air, but successful May 2021 she announced the amusement would end the pursuing year, aft 19 seasons.

In April, she opened the archetypal nighttime of Ellen's Last Stand... Up Tour by saying: "I didn't attraction what different radical thought of me, and I realised... I said that astatine the tallness of my popularity".

DeGeneres told the Los Angeles assemblage she had been doing tons of gardening since the amusement ended and collecting chickens arsenic pets - adding that arsenic a erstwhile speech amusement big she appreciated the unit of having to laic an ovum each day.

"What other tin I archer you?" she added.

"Oh yeah, I got kicked retired of amusement business. There's nary mean radical successful amusement business."

The stand-up amusement volition beryllium released connected Netflix, which broadcast her erstwhile stand-up gig, Relatable, successful 2018.

DeGeneres' TV vocation began with her fashionable sitcom Ellen successful 1994, successful which she played the proprietor of a publication shop.

In her opening gig, she referenced her speech amusement being cancelled aft she came retired arsenic gay.

“For those of you keeping score, this is the 2nd clip I’ve been kicked retired of amusement business… Eventually they’re going to footwear maine retired for a 3rd clip due to the fact that I’m mean, old, and gay," she said.

She besides said that having been successful the nationalist for truthful long, the takedown she experienced has "been specified a toll connected my ego and my-self esteem".

"There's specified extremes successful this business, radical either emotion you and idolise you oregon they hatred you, and those radical someway are louder," she added.

Her her speech amusement began successful 2003 and grew successful popularity; successful 2016 she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama.

The BBC has contacted DeGeneres' representatives for comment.