Tickets are no longer available for Ellen Degeneres' UK shows. The US comedian was due to be heading out on an In Conversation tour later this year, taking in dates close to her home in the Cotswolds. 

The shows were due to take place in Reading, Milton Keynes, Bath, Oxford and Bsristol in October and November.

The dates, however, no longer appear on ticket websites and beyond the joke has been told that refunds have been issued.