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Portia de Rossi has filed a petition to legally change her name to Portia Lee James DeGeneres, to take the name of her spouse, Ellen DeGeneres. This isn’t the first time the actress has petitioned to have her name changed. The actress was born Amanda Lee Rogers.

'It's just simply a civil rights issue,' so says out lesbian Portia de Rossi on Friday's The View. There to promote the second season of her ABC sitcom Better Off Ted, de Rossi spent the bulk of her time there discussing the importance of marriage equality with hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elizabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd.

Here's a mini album of Ellen and Portia since their 2008 wedding.

Portia de Rossi appears on Monday’s Oprah to promote her new book, Unbearable Lightness, saying the pressure to stay closeted in Hollywood is one of the many reasons she became obsessed with losing weight. “1997, Ellen came out, and I watched that like I’m sure a lot of gay people did, but especially gay actresses at that time,” de Rossi tells Oprah. “If she went down, there’s no way in hell I can come out.”

Comedian Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Actress Portia de Rossi are well known for their outspoken advocacy for all animals. Now de Rossi, star of the ABC comedy Better Off Ted, has become an "Alley Cat Ally" and will appear in a print Public Service Announcement for the organization to help raise awareness about the growing feral and stray cat problem.

It's about time! 

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Thanks to Kanye West, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi have a sexy new Christmas card this year.

It is just about a month out from the arrival of new Arrested Development episodes since the cult favorite was prematurely canceled in 2006, and Entertainment Weekly’s latest issue is all about what’s in store for the Bluth (and Fünke) family when new AD episodes hit Netflix.

Portia de Rossi makes for one hell of a sexy Lily Munster in the NBC reboot of the 1960’s classic ghoulish sitcom The Munsters, which airs as a one-hour pilot Oct. 26.

Ellen DeGeneres loves to frighten the daylights out of her guests, and today she gets the chance to scare the pants off of her wife Portia de Rossi.

Actress Portia de Rossi will play matriarch Lily Munster in Mockingbird Lane, out producer Bryan Fuller's dramatic reboot of the '60s sitcom The Munsters for NBC.

Last week Portia de Rossi debuted a hot new set of shorn locks, and now, her wife Ellen DeGeneres weighs in on the look on Bethenny Frankel’s talk show Bethenny in an episode that airs June 12. Ellen, who’s sported cropped hair since around the time of the second season of her sitcom in 1994, says that she thinks Portia’s new look is “adorable."

Ellen DeGeneres has sold her Beverly Hills estate to Ryan Seacrest for around $49 million. Ellen purchased the main house from Will & Grace co-creator Max Mutchnick for $29 million, and later bought the surrounding properties.

Partners in life and business, Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres, are teaming up for a project that DeGeneres is executive producing and that will star de Rossi. ABC has ordered a pilot of The Smart One, about a “brilliant and successful woman who begrudgingly goes to work for her less-brainy but more popular sister – a former beauty queen, weather girl and now big-city Mayor,”