Ellen DeGeneres received a surprise from her wife Portia de Rossi on the latter’s birthday where the couple renewed their vows.

Brandi Carlisle was singing and that’s when Rossi snuck up behind Ellen while wearing the same Zac Posen wedding dress she wore during their original wedding on August 16, 2008. This completely shocked Ellen. Kris Jenner stood up and officiated while Ellen and Portia‘s vows were renewed.

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Who is Ellen DeGeneres?

Ellen DeGeneres was born and raised in Metairie, Louisiana, to Elizabeth Jane “Betty” and Elliott Everett DeGeneres. She has one brother, Vance, a musician and producer. Her parents filed for separation in 1973 and were divorced the following year. Shortly after, her mother married Roy Gruessendorf, a salesman.

DeGeneres graduated from Atlanta High School in May 1976, after completing her first years of high school at Grace King High School in Metairie. She moved back to New Orleans to attend the University of New Orleans.

DeGeneres started performing stand-up comedy at small clubs and coffee houses but received a job as an emcee at Clyde’s Comedy Club in New Orleans in 1981. DeGeneres cites Woody Allen and Steve Martin as her main influences at this time.

Her first regular TV role was in a short-lived Fox sitcom called Open House.

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She launched a daytime television talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, in September 2003, which was nominated for 11 Daytime Emmy Awards in its first season, winning four, including Best Talk Show. The show won 25 Emmy Awards for its first three seasons on the air.

In 1997, DeGeneres came out as a lesbian. Since 2004, DeGeneres has had a relationship with Portia de Rossi.

After the overturn of the same-sex marriage ban in California, the duo got engaged, and married in August 2008, at their home in Beverly Hills, California. On August 6, 2010, de Rossi filed a petition to legally change her name to Portia Lee James DeGeneres. The petition was granted on September 23, 2010.