PHOTOSEllen DeGeneres Surprises Gay Couple After They Reveal Their Parents Are Skipping Their Wedding
Nov. 20 2019, Published 3:36 p.m. ET
Ellen DeGeneres has done it again. On the November 19 episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the TV personality hosted Kate Austin and her fiancée Sarah Sulsenti, a same-sex couple who revealed that their parents were skipping their wedding because they didn’t support their relationship. After the ladies shared their story online, Ellen, 61, invited them to her talk show and surprised them.
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On November 5, Kate took to social media to reach out to Ellen along with Chrissy Teigen. She shared gorgeous pictures of her and Sarah celebrating their engagement in front of the Eiffel Tower. “hi @chrissyteigen & @TheEllenShow!!” Kate tweeted. “My parents aren’t going to attend my wedding because they don’t like that I’m gay! I need someone to walk me down the aisle and someone else for a ‘father/daughter’ dance. plz come, my fiancée and I would cry #shootingmyshot.” To which the Finding Dory star responded on November 18, “See you tomorrow.”
Two weeks later, the happy couple appeared on Ellen’s show during the “Show Me Your Tweets” segment of the November 19 episode. Kate told Ellen during a brief interview that when she came out publicly five years ago, she and her mother had a rocky relationship. “My mom was really terrible,” she recalled. “She said everything you could think of under the sun.”
The Finding Nemo actress told the women that unfortunately she would not be able to make it to their wedding. However, she offered a cardboard cutout of herself with a retractable arm to hold tissues in her place.
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Ellen took her surprise to the next level and brought out friends and family of Kate and Sarah who supported their relationship. Sarah got down on one knee and re-proposed to Kate in front of their family, friends, and their “biggest role model.”
“If it wasn’t for someone like you, I would have never had the courage to just go out there in the public and propose to my fiancée,” Kate told Ellen as she wiped away tears. “So many people don’t accept that. You paved the way for queer women everywhere.”
“Everybody deserves love,” Ellen told Kate and Sarah. “That’s the most important thing. That is all that matters in this life.”
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