Ellen DeGeneres pays tribute to producer Matt Wright
Entertainment · First reported 3 Nov, 09:21 · Updated 09:55

Ellen DeGeneres and former colleagues paid tribute to Matt Wright after his death at 52. Wright was an executive producer on DeGeneres’s talk show from 2006 until it ended in 2022.
- A fundraiser for Wright’s family said he died following what it described as an “unfathomable tragedy” while working remotely in Los Angeles on October 30.
- DeGeneres remembered Wright in an Instagram video and said they had been working on another project that was due to begin soon.
- Wright worked as an executive producer on DeGeneres’s talk show from 2006 until the show ended in 2022.
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- Age
- 52
- Work location and date reported
- Los Angeles, October 30
- Executive producer tenure
- 2006–2022
- Next project
- DeGeneres said she and Wright had been due to start another project soon.
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