Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are making it official.

Hours after Thursday's landmark ruling by the California Supreme Court striking down a state law banning gay marriage, the 50-year-old daytime host announced during a taping of The Ellen DeGeneres Show that she and the 35-year-old former Ally McBeal star plan to swap vows.

In the episode scheduled to air later today, studio audience members greeted DeGeneres' news with thunderous applause and a standing ovation as De Rossi watched from the sidelines.

The show's publicist was unavailable for comment.

Separately, in an interview with The Advocate Thursday, DeGeneres said she was ready to go bridal.

"I'm thrilled that the California Supreme Court overturned the ban on gay marriage," she told the magazine. "I can't wait to get married. We all deserve the same rights, and I believe that someday...not allowing gays to marry will seem as absurd as not allowing women to vote."

DeGeneres and the Aussie actress have been together for four years.

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Tomorrow on Ellen, she takes a moment to speak of a very unfortunate crime. Ellen became very sad when she spoke of the gay hate crime against 15 yr. old, Lawrence King.

King was a student in Oxnard, Ca., that was shot to death by a fellow male student whom he asked to be his Valentine. Very sad indeed.

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Today Heidi was on Ellen making Swedish meatballs. Heidi loves to be shocking and candid. She keeps pushing the word balls to obviously goat Ellen into a "ball" discussion.

Ellen says it's been a while since she's had balls and Heidi says she loves all balls big and small... you get the idea.

Ellen Degeneres is now publicly backing Hillary Clinton. Finally, someone!

Have all the woman become so passe? This is historical. Hillary has worked hard for this position and needs more female public figures in her support.

Here is Ellen, Monday night, joining Hillary via satellite urging Texas and Ohio to vote to make a difference on March 4.

Ellen turns 50 and got a special birthday surprise today from some of her past guests, who paid tribute to the music lover with a special lip sync karaoke rendition of I Will Survive.

Jenna Bush was a guest on Ellen's show yesterday when Ellen asked her if she is able to just call her dad up at anytime. Jenna answers yes, so she says, call him now then...

Jenna is still in her mid 20's, why then does her mouth appear that she's been smoking for 50 years?

Ellen continues to work, cross the picket line stating, "I'm a host and have 135 staff members depending on me for a paycheck each week."

"I want to say I love my writers. I love them. In honor of them today, I'm not going to do a monologue. I support them and hope that they get everything they're asking for. And I hope it works out soon. In the meantime, people have traveled across the country. They've made plans. They're here. I want to do everything I can to make your trip enjoyable and give you a show."

"Personally, it's heartbreaking. I love my writers; we're a family," she said, skipping out on a morning monologue. "It's really hard to have to deal with where they are and where I am because I'm kinda caught in the middle.

Leno, Letterman and Conan have all walked on their respective shows in support of their writers. Why the line crossing?

I'm confused, why the bipolar poses?

What the holy hell? Is she going as a 90's Lesbian in drag for Halloween?

I think I just found Ellen's new loverrrrr!

This would be a perfect replacement for Portia De Rossi, if indeed the breakup rumors are true!!

Two jilted hearts.

Ellen breaks down on her show over dog adoption controversy.

Daytime TV sweetheart, Ellen Degeneres and girlfriend, Portia de Rossi, adopted a dog from Mom's n' Mutts, in Pasadena, CA. When the pooch failed to get along with Ellen's other animals, she took it upon herself to find the doggy a new home, with her hair-stylist. However, this was an illegal move, according to the contractual agreement between Ellen and the adoption facility.

The result is a very upset little girl after the a representative from the facility came to their home and removed the dog.

Ellen is extremely upset and had a very hard time being her usually cheerful self on her show today.