{"id":2053173,"date":"2025-09-27T01:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T01:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2053173"},"modified":"2025-09-27T01:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T01:01:14","slug":"ellen-degeneres-mourns-boyfriend-tayt-after-his-death-at-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ellen-degeneres-mourns-boyfriend-tayt-after-his-death-at-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen DeGeneres mourns &#8216;boyfriend&#8217; Tayt after his death at 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F09%2F112225672.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ellen DeGeneres has shared some heartbreaking news.<\/p>\n<p>The former talk show host took to Instagram to remember former guest Tayt Andersen, whose family announced <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPEZci0jnP_\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passed away from cancer<\/a> on Friday morning at the age of 19.<\/p>\n<p>Andersen appeared on \u201cThe Ellen DeGeneres Show\u201d several times while living with a congenital heart condition, and DeGeneres dubbed him her \u201conly boyfriend\u201d after he once called her his \u201cgirlfriend\u201d on the program.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Ellen DeGeneres took to Instagram to remember former guest Tayt Andersen on Sept. 26, 2025. <span class=\"credit\">Ellen DeGeneres\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Tayt Andersen with Ellen DeGeneres during an episode of \u201cThe Ellen DeGeneres Show.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Ellen<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe had a very special guest on the show several times, and his name is Tayt,\u201d DeGeneres, 67, began <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPE4Jm5knPH\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">while fighting back tears<\/a> in a heartbreaking video. \u201cAnd he thought that I was his girlfriend, and so I told him he was my boyfriend, which shocked my wife.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he was a very special little human being, and just brought joy and life and laughter into every room that he was in,\u201d she continued. \u201cI will miss him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeGeneres also remembered Andersen in the caption of her emotional clip.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Ellen DeGeneres dubbed Tayt Andersen her \u201conly boyfriend.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Ellen DeGeneres\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI love you Tayt. I love you Chrissy,\u201d she wrote, referring to Chrissy Becker, Andersen\u2019s mom. \u201cYou touched so many lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chrissy, meanwhile, took to the comments section of the comedian\u2019s post to thank DeGeneres for the thoughtful words.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love you so much,\u201d she wrote alongside a heart emoji. \u201cThank you for being his girlfriend you gave him so much strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This story is developing\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellen DeGeneres has shared some heartbreaking news. The former talk show host took to Instagram to remember former guest Tayt Andersen, whose family announced passed away from cancer on Friday morning at the age of 19. Andersen appeared on \u201cThe Ellen DeGeneres Show\u201d several times while living with a congenital heart condition, and DeGeneres dubbed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2053174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[21751,22062,25601,352776,21741,22491],"class_list":["post-2053173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-deaths","tag-ellen-degeneres","tag-entertainment","tag-instagram"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ellen-DeGeneres-mourns-boyfriend-Tayt-after-his-death-at-19.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2053174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}