What a difference a week makes, as only days ago our state's greatest displacement tragedy revolved around the fate of one lovable rat-dog, ripped from his hairdresser home by a mercenary squad of anal-retentive canine adoption officials. Still, those who hoped the IggyGate crisis would end with Ellen's clear-eyed meditation on the power of televised crying were sorely mistaken, as the armchair psychiatrists at Star Magazine have begun to examine the Iggy behind the Iggy—i.e., Ellen and Portia's allegedly deteriorating relationship:

According to multiple sources, [Ellen's] really in pain because her three-year romance with actress Portia de Rossi is all but over.

"Ellen would never have broken down like that on TV if things were right in her home life," one source tells Star.

Portia has been telling Ellen she's very unhappy at home," says a second source...."When it comes down to it, she wants to be with someone younger ad hotter. She wants out, but Ellen has been begging her to stay. Portia is really everything in this world to her."

Domestic issues could explain a lot about the awkward energy hanging over the new season of DeGeneres's talk show—something we've noticed before in her forced relationship with DJ Stryker, who nervously winces at her every question, as if the wrong answer might result in a newly rescued lap-rodent suddenly being whipped with great force at his head. Here's hoping Portia and Ellen work through whatever rocky patches they may have encountered, before all the she-said/she-said/Iggy-said splitzville shit really starts to hit the fan.

• Ellen and Portia Headed To Splitsville? [queerty.com]

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