The steamy embrace between actresses Portia de Rossi and Joely Richardson in the forthcoming series of Nip/Tuck is bound to set pulses racing.

Yet playing a lesbian is a first for Portia. “I am a lesbian playing a lesbian” says the blonde actress, “But she’s a different woman than I am, so the most surprising thing is how emotional it’s been for me.”

It’s been three years since the leggy blonde went public about her relationship with Ellen de Generes and at first she worried she’d be typecast as a lesbian if she took the Nip/Tuck role.

Yet her girlfriend Ellen urged her to do it.

“My relationship with Ellen is so public, and I thought, ‘Am I going to play a romantic lead again?’ I had that one moment of, ‘Does this mean I’ll be typecast as a lesbian?’” Portia said.

“And Ellen turned to me and said, ‘So what?’ And I thought, ‘Oh, yeah, right, so what?’”

Yet there were no such reservations for co-star Joely.

Joely, 42, said: “I have no problems kissing women. It’s not the first time I have done lesbian scenes.

“I have heard Ellen was jealous. She has been on set. She is great and Portia is lovely.”

The actress added, “I think playing a lesbian turns men on. When my character Julia was the boring, married housewife, always chopping vegetables, people were sweet and lovely.

“But now I’m playing her as a sexy ***** with a big padded bra and a short skirt, I get a very different reaction.

“I think men respond to the sexiness of two women being together.”

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Ellen Degeneres couldn’t sell her Montecito home, so in the beginning of October she famously went on her talk show and website to hawk the place.

In mid-November, one of her viewers up in San Francisco saw the show and ended up buying the place for $20 million! Not bad, considering Ellen bought it the year before for only $16 million…

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Ellen Degeneres gave a pet dog away to a member of her staff two years before her recent pooch scandal, according to reports.

The talk show host and her partner Portia de Rossi came under fire by the Mutts And Moms agency after handing over custody of the Brussels Griffon mix to DeGeneres’ hairdresser after it fought with her cats.

Now dog owner Kerri Randles claims she gave DeGeneres a pooch named Stormy two years ago (05), only to find out she had given it away two months later.

She tells New York gossip column PageSix, “She may have had it for much less time than that. I only say two months because that’s when I called to check on the dog and found out she no longer had it. ”

She acted like she was keeping it for life. I was totally shocked. I thought she was out of her mind.”

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Ellen DeGeneres and her partner Portia de Rossi want to have a baby, but cannot decide which of them will give birth to the child. The chat show host and the former Ally McBeal star have been together for two years and would like to become parents, but must first decide who will carry the baby.

Portia told W magazine: “We would like to have children some day. Ellen would carry.”

Ellen replied: “That will never happen!”

Meanwhile, Ellen can’t decide what to wear when she presents the Oscars because she has been inundated with outfits.

She said: “Everybody’s sending me stuff. Gucci sent me this amazing package with all kinds of designs and different kinds of fabrics. They’re making me something. Zac Posen sent me a gorgeous tuxedo. Viktor and Rolf is making me something.”