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1. Ellen DeGeneres graduated high school from Atlanta High in May, 1976 after moving from Metairie, Louisiana to Atlanta, Texas. She moved with her mom after she divorced, but soon got remarried to her stepfather.

2. One of Ellen DeGeneres’s first movies was a movie called “Mr. Wrong” where she played one of the lead roles named Martha Alston, who was looking for her Mr. Right, but soon after finding him, she realizes that instead he is Mr. Wrong.

3. Ellen DeGeneres loves to help out people but she also loves to help out animals. In fact, Ellen has three cats and three dogs and she also wants people to go vegan. She donated twenty-five thousand dollars to support efforts to stop an ag-gag law, which is a law that forbids

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