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Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi have tied the knot.

“Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi were married tonight in an intimate ceremony at their home in Los Angeles,” their spokesperson tells PEOPLE exclusively.

DeGeneres, 50, and de Rossi, 35, both wore Zac Posen and exchanged rings by Neil Lane during the Saturday ceremony. Their big day also featured arrangements by L.A. florist Mark’s Garden.

The intimate ceremony was attended by 19 guests, including DeGeneres’s mom Betty and de Rossi’s mother Margaret Rogers (who flew in from Australia for the occasion), who witnessed the couple exchange handwritten vows.

The couple have been dating since December 2004. DeGeneres announced her plans to wed de Rossi during a taping of her talk show in May after California’s Supreme Court ruled a previous ban on gay marriage to be unconstitutional.

The following month de Rossi showed off a 3-carat diamond ring set on a pink pavé band DeGeneres presented to her for their upcoming nuptials when the pair attended the Daytime Emmy Awards together.

“She’s taught me lessons about myself, and I feel like I’ve taught her,” the TV host said of de Rossi last year. “We’ve both changed and grown, and we just feel like, ‘Oh, okay, this is completion.’”
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Ellen DeGeneres gave Portia de Rossi a glittering ring with pink diamonds for their upcoming wedding that will air in part on DeGeneres’s talk show.

“Yes, we have set a wedding date,” said DeGeneres, who walked the red carpet with de Rossi at Friday night’s 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood.

De Rossi wore a green satin Lanvin gown and a Neil Lane ring on her wedding finger. The ring was a marquis cut diamond set with pink diamonds.

DeGeneres, 50, who won an Emmy for outstanding talk-show host for the fourth year in a row, announced her plans to wed longtime girlfriend de Rossi, on her show back in May, shortly after California’s Supreme Court ruled the previous ban on gay marriages as unconstitutional.

The two stars are in the midst of preparations for what DeGeneres calls “the dream wedding.”

“Planning a wedding is very stressful,” says DeGeneres. “It is crazy. My gardener is now invited.”

The comedienne remained tight-lipped on the major details of her upcoming nuptials to de Rossi, 35, only revealing that “incredible people” would be performing, and that she would air part of the ceremony on her show.

But there are no signs of any pre-wedding jitters for DeGeneres.

“I can’t wait to be married. I feel like it is long overdue,” she said. “And I think someday people will look back on this like women not having the right to vote and segregation and anything else that seems ridiculous like we all don’t have the same rights.”

The two stars began dating in December 2004
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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain was politically polite with Ellen DeGeneres on Thursday, but he made his feelings clear about gay marriage.

“I just believe in the unique status of marriage between man and woman,” McCain, 71, said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “And I know that we have a respectful disagreement on that issue. ”

DeGeneres, 50, who plans to marry Portia DeRossi, 35, now that the state Supreme Court has overturned California’s gay marriage law, responded: “It just feels like there is this old way of thinking that we are not all the same. We are all the same people, all of us. You’re no different than I am. Our love is the same.”

McCain wouldn’t commit to DeGeneres’s jesting proposal that he walk her down the aisle, but the two ended their dialogue on friendly terms.
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Not even Rosie O’Donnell and her headline grabbing year at The View could top Ellen DeGeneres and her daytime dance moves: The comedian scored top honors at the Daytime Emmy Awards Friday, while Bob Barker celebrated his Price Is Right retirement with a win for best game-show host.

DeGeneres’s show won six trophies, including her fourth straight win for best talk show and third straight victory as best talk-show host.

“Portia, I still love you this year,” DeGeneres joked onstage while accepting award, sending a shout-out to partner Portia de Rossi.

Speaking about her View competition, she added, “I really am shocked. … I thought Rosie brought a lot of new viewers to daytime television and it was interesting.”

And with that, she decided she wanted to follow Rosie, Elisabeth and company and become more controversial, the Associated Press reports.

“I know this might not be popular and I don’t care because that’s what I’m doing,” she said. “I just want to say it – I think Bob Barker is a quitter.”

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Ellen DeGeneres is hosting shows this week from a hospital bed on the stage – doctor’s orders after injuring her back over the weekend.

The host of the syndicated The Ellen DeGeneres Show said during Monday’s taping she was placed on bed rest after she hurt herself Sunday when she leaned over to pick up her dog in her kitchen.

Ellens injury was first reported y TMZ.com.

Interesting  fact: Ellen Degeneres became the first lesbian to host the Academy Awards. Yay for the acceptance of differences!

“Ms. D made history as the first lesbian to host the Oscars, an especially magnificent milestone considering all the homophobic dialogue as of late. With regard to those scandals and other discriminatory diatribes, Ellen had this to say:
If there were no blacks, Jews and gays, there’d be no Oscars.”

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 Ellen DeGeneres and her partner Portia de Rossi want to have a baby, but cannot decide which of them will give birth to the child.The chat show host and the former “Ally McBeal” star have been together for two years and would like to become parents, but must first decide who will carry the baby.Portia told W magazine: “We would like to have children some day. Ellen would carry.” Ellen replied: “That will never happen!” Meanwhile, Ellen can’t decide what to wear when she presents the Oscars because she has been inundated with outfits. She said: “Everybody’s sending me stuff. Gucci sent me this amazing package with all kinds of designs and different kinds of fabrics.”