Sick Ellen postpones Aussie tour

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Talk show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres Source: AP

EXCLUSIVE: ELLEN DeGENERES has been forced to postpone her imminent Australian tour at the last minute after being sidelined with illness.

The Emmy winning host cancelled episodes of her LA talk show due to ill health during the week, including her final show ahead of her scheduled departure to Australia.

Although television production sources in the US are refusing to comment on the illness that has grounded their star, airline sources yesterday hinted that the trip would be delayed.

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The 55-year-old is believed to gave contracted the flu.

The personality and her partner, Australian actress Portia DeGeneres, formerly de Rossi are due to board a flight from Los Angeles to Australia tomorrow but the popular celebrity is said to be too too sick to travel.

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"Unfortunately Ellen is still feeling under the weather and will not be taping today," one said today, Thursday US time.

DeGeneres has been tweeting about her illness from her LA sickbed all week, giving rise to speculation she would postpone her trip.

"Trying to get over a bug before I go to Australia. Nobody wants to be down under the weather," she wrote.

In a candid and very open interview for A Current Affair, Ellen DeGeneres talks of tough times after her public coming out. Source Nine Network

"Between my humidifier and Portia making me tea non-stop, there's so much steam coming from our house people think we picked the new Pope," she posted in an upbeat Tweet a day earlier.

Postponement news will throw into chaos her much-hyped Australian expedition - a tour that has been almost 12 months in the planning.

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