Ellen Degeneres sued by woman she mocked on TV

The comedienne, who promotes kindness on her daytime U.S. talk show, upset Titi Pierce by name checking her on the programme and making a joke. Now the real estate agent has filed a defamation lawsuit, claiming Ellen's mockery led to a significant loss of privacy.   Pierce states DeGeneres mangled her name on air back in February (16), calling her "Titty" instead of "Teetee" - the given pronunciation of her name, and then to make matters worse producers of The Ellen Degeneres Show failed to properly blur out her cell phone number.   The plaintiff alleges hundreds of people called to make fun of her while she was at a funeral.

  As well as defamation and invasion of privacy, Titi is also suing Ellen for misappropriation of likeness and intentional infliction of emotional distress.   Pierce also claims she alerted show producers about censoring the phone number and correcting the pronunciation of her name in repeats of the programme, but when it re-aired in April (16), she was still the butt of Ellen's jokes.  

Source: Contactmusic