Ellen DeGeneres not honoring writer's strike [View All]

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The environment over at The Ellen DeGeneres Show continues to be less than felicitous.

Former WB star Keri Russell has canceled an upcoming appearance on the daytime chat fest, reportedly in protest of the decision to keep producing new episodes while its Writers Guild of America-bound employees are out on strike.

Russell, whose promo schedule in advance of her new film August Rush will probably be lighter than usual in light of the walkout, was supposed to be a guest on Ellen when the show tapes in New York later this month.

In an angry statement Friday, the WGA East vowed to picket Ellen's studio in the Big Apple???a threat that the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists didn't take lightly to, calling the WGAE's public outcry "a misstep that threatens to frustrate the solidarity of organized labor on a cause that we should all stand together, and stand up, for."

In response to AFTRA's response, WGAE executive director Mona Mangan wrote Saturday in a letter to AFTRA national executive director Kim Roberts Hedgpath that the matter was between DeGeneres and the WGA, and wasn't meant to be an attack on another union's protocol. (DeGeneres is a member of both.)

"Beyond any issue of membership, there is the obvious ethical issue, which is clearly present in Ms. DeGeneres' decision...