Ellen Degeneres Banned From Using Her Own Sitcom Clips....

U.S. chat show host Ellen DeGeneres has been refused access to clips from her own former sitcom.The comedienne asked Abc/Disney bosses to let her show a segment from her old programme, which featured a guest appearance from actress Mariska Hargitay - and was told the footage was off limits.DeGeneres, who hit the headlines a decade ago when she 'came out' as a lesbian on the sitcom and in real life, was hoping to use the clip to show Hargitay when the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star made her debut on the Ellen show on Friday (14Sep07).she was a guest star on my original sitcom and it was a hilarious scene... I wanted to show it today... but Disney will not let me have any clips of my show to show, unless we pay a whole lot of money."It was my show... We'd be advertising it, it would help them".Instead Ellen showed a clip of Hargitay in soap Falcon Crest, acting alongside the late Jane Wyman, who died earlier this week (beg10Sep07).

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