{"id":37564,"date":"2018-05-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tv-host-ellen-degeneres-and-wife-portia-de-rossi\/"},"modified":"2018-05-27T15:05:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T15:05:03","slug":"tv-host-ellen-degeneres-and-wife-portia-de-rossi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tv-host-ellen-degeneres-and-wife-portia-de-rossi\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Host Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi land in Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DeGeneres and De Rossi both landed in Rwanda this Saturday night, 26th May 2018, where they were seen on Akagera Aviation premises. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Ellen DeGeneres revealed on her episode of her popular talk show \u2018The Ellen Show\u2019 that she would be coming to Rwanda soon.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Ellen DeGeneres Campus\u2019 will be the first initiative of The Ellen DeGeneres Wildlife Fund, a foundation and gift from Portia DeRossi, DeGeneres\u2019 wife during the comedian\u2019s 60th birthday, who is a renowned supporter of late Dian Fossey&#8217;s work, an American scientist who studied gorillas in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The facility will be dedicated to protect and advocate the critically endangered mountain gorillas in the Virunga Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>According to the information published on her official website, Ellen&#8217;s stay in Rwanda will consist of planning and designing the campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith over 50,000 square feet of building space, Ellen will help create an atmosphere and environment that will focus on conservation, inspiration and education,\u201d reads the statement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi were also recently seen in Nairobi, Kenya where they were spending time at Giraffe Manor.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25485 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/degeneres_yageze_mu_rwanda-602d9.jpg\" alt=\"TV Host Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi posing with Akagera Aviation employees\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25486 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/degeneres_muri_kenya-a7c29.jpg\" alt=\"Ellen and Portia were also recently seen in Nairobi, Kenya where they were spending time at Giraffe Manor.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular American Comedian-turned-Presenter Ellen DeGeneres and partner, Portia De Rossi have landed in Rwanda, where they will overlook the construction of the \u2018Ellen DeGeneres Campus\u2019 that will support the conservation of mountain gorillas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[2846],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-olga-ishimwe"],"bylines":[{"id":2846,"name":"Olga Ishimwe","slug":"olga-ishimwe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2846,"name":"Olga Ishimwe","slug":"olga-ishimwe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37564"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37564"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}