WGA STRIKE CENTRAL DAY 11
Ellen DeGeneres has pulled the plug on plans to tape her show next week in New York, where Writers Guild East members had vowed to protest her decision to stay on the air during their strike. Said Michael Winship, president of WGA East: "She knows that the Writers Guild East would have been there to protest her lack of solidarity, not only with her Guild writing staff but all the striking members of the Writers Guild, of which she is a member," he said in a statement.
Ellen told her audience last week that while she supported the writers, she was under contract to continue hosting the show.
