Four fun facts about Ellen: 1: Before she got her start in comedy, Ellen worked as a vacuum cleaner saleswoman and an oyster shucker in New Orleans. 2: There is a ride featuring Ellen DeGeneres at Walt Disney World's Epcot park - Ellen's Energy World. 3: Oprah Winfrey played Ellen DeGeneres' therapist on the 1997 coming out episode of ELLEN. 3: Ellen used to love Hot Sox - tall, glittery socks popular in the early 70s. But after moving to small-town Texas, she decided to give them away: I'm going to a place where they have gun racks on the back of the pickup trucks...I just have to get rid of anything weird, she told THE NEW YORK TIMES.