Will it be weird without Paula around this season?
She's one of my best friends. We speak all the time. The whole show started with me, Ryan, Simon, and her, so she's [been] one of our best friends and she still is. We look down the table sometimes and go, "Wait a minute, where's Paula?" So it's going to take a little getting used to. But welcoming Ellen to the fold is a good look.

What does Ellen bring to the show?
She's funny. She's charismatic. She's really cool. She's my home girl from Louisiana, like me. It's going to be a very interesting, funny, different season. There will be a lot of laughs. She's a performer and entertainer as well, so she knows about performing and entertaining because this is how she's made her amazingly successful, great career.

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