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    Margaret Cho has slammed Ellen DeGeneres for being "not nice" to her

    The 56-year-old comic first crossed paths with the former talk show host on the stand-up circuit in the 1980s, so she always found it "really weird" that Ellen would pretend they had never met when she appeared on her eponymous daytime programme


    Speaking on The Kelly Mantle Show, Margaret said: "Ellen was really weird and not nice to me for most of my career.

    "I opened for her in the 1980s, when she was a headliner in comedy clubs. Later, when I would do her talk show in the 2000s, she would act like we just met.

    "And I'm like, 'B****, what?' That's weird. We go way back. It's so creepy and weird."

    Margaret will never forget one particular incident when, after she had attended a David Bowie concert in a "Chinese emperor outfit", the 'Heroes' hitmaker - who died in January 2016 -praised the elaborate costume during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show the following day, but his remarks were edited out of the final broadcast.

    She said: "It made me so mad.

    "The producer, who was a really good friend of mine, had to call and tell me, 'I can't believe she did this but she cut it out of the show. But you need to know that he was going on and on about your outfit! God said your name.'

    "[It's] so rude! I don't know if it was personal, maybe it was [cut] for time. But still, I'm going to take it personally just because I decided to."

    Margaret isn't the only comic to have criticised Ellen because Rosie O'Donnell recently admitted there is still unresolved "stuff" between herself and the Finding Dory star - who she previously accused of pretending she didn't know who she was - but insisted she doesn't bear any "malice" towards her.

    Rosie told Us Weekly magazine: "I don't want to fight against another gay woman. It's not like we're tenaciously opposed to each other. We're just very different people.

    "We have had some stuff in the past that we never resolved. And not in any way as, as partners or lovers or anything like that, just as friends and comedians, but I wish her the best. I seriously do."

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