Ellen DeGeneres Debuts Gray Hair on Montecito Return From U.K.

Ellen DeGeneres is embracing the natural look in the new year.

DeGeneres, 66, was recently spotted rocking a gray pixie cut during an outing in Montecito, California, earlier this month.

The talk show host spent most of her Hollywood career as a blonde, later going darker when she and wife Portia de Rossi traded their Montecito pad for an estate in England last year.

In November 2024, DeGeneres was spotted with a short, brunette ‘do while out with de Rossi, 51, and other pals at a local pub called Farmer’s Dog. Weeks earlier, news broke that the couple left Montecito for the British countryside. They settled in the Cotswolds and have since been spotted at Soho Farmhouse nearby. (The hotspot is a luxurious member’s club and hotel in the Cotswolds, where the likes of David Beckham, Victoria Beckham, Sharon Osbourne and Simon Cowell often frequent.)

“She was with two female friends walking from the car park towards the farm buildings where the clubhouse is — we passed on a stone bridge over a stream,” an eyewitness exclusively told Us Weekly at the time. “She was dressed in a country casual way. She was super understated and no one was really paying much attention to her … but then you just don’t expect to see Ellen there as it’s more a haunt of U.K. celebrities.”

While DeGeneres has remained tight-lipped about her England move, she’s previously been candid about switching up her hairstyle.

“You may notice my hair is a little bit blonder today than usual and a little bit shorter than usual,” she said on an April 2019 episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “That’s ‘cause I had my hair done over the weekend. And by the weekend, I mean the entire weekend. When you have short hair, you have to color it often because my hair grows really fast. I’m constantly coloring it. Some days it’s a different tone.”