ELLEN DEGENERES (TALK SHOW HOST / PRODUCER / SPOKESPERSON)
First known for her stand-up comedy, and then her self-titled sitcom Ellen (1994 - 1998), DeGeneres’s regular “gig” is now her five-days-a-week, hour-long syndicated TV talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, which has attracted numerous Hollywood stars — and awards — since its debut in 2003. The 2014 Oscar ceremony host remains arguably the only woman to have come out twice on television as a lesbian — as herself, on a February 1997 edition of The Oprah Winfrey Show, and then as her sitcom character a couple of months later (in The Puppy Episode) to “therapist” Oprah Winfrey! Other: Rachel Maddow (News Anchor/ Political Commentator); Harry Levin (Founder TMZ).