Ellen DeGeneres Boycotting Five Guys?

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Is Ellen Degeneres starting a boycott of growing burger chain Five Guys? This poorly-written flier says so! Eater found some of these stuck to the windshields of cars left on Waverly Place last night, but this is the first anyone's heard of night manager Carlos "Leo" Rivera's "discriminating views" of the neighborhood gays.

Reached for comment today, a manager at Five Guys told us Rivera is off today, and he denied any knowledge of the "past following weekend" incident, in which he allegedly insulted a customer's sexuality. But the illiterate flier guy never lies!

Ellen's manager at ICM is on vacation. But upon hearing about the boycott, the manager's assistant told us she "highly doubts" it's true. Developing...

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Yes! We must follow Ellen DeGeneres on this nobel cause, because we all know that everyone gives a fuck what Ellen DeGeneres has to say!

She is our Lesbian goddess. Her word is law.

Morons. Call the HQ and complain. No need for a dramatic boycott just because one employee said something stupid.

"Five Guys" is a pretty gay name after all.

They sure know how to handle the meat over there.

"Five Guys" is a pretty gay name after all.

screw her and every other hollywood activist shill! 5 Guys makes some damn fine burgers at workin' man prices.

Five Guys does make a good burger. But I wouldn't say they are priced at workin' man's prices. A burger, fries and a drink will set you back $20.

Not sure where you're getting 20 bucks from.

When I buy the fries, burger and drink, it comes out to 12 bucks.

I'm pretty sure of two things:

1) You're overreacting.

2) DeGeneres has nothing to do with this. Other than being the go-to "name" that some childish jackass uses to validate his grudges.

if i can't choose to overreact to each and every unprofessional random announcement (especially dirty restroom graffiti) well then, my hebrew friend, you have taken my will to live.

Slip Mahoney has migrated from the Bowery.

We are the reason their in business Yeah this is well thought out. The cherry on top of this illiterate crap is, "Support Our Cause to Get Mr Rivera Out Our Hood" Umm yeah...

To all of the above posters: why don't you bother to actually read the article? This supposed boycott is based on Eater finding some badly written fliers. If Ellen were to actually launch a boycott, don't you pinheads think that maybe she would have made a media announcement and announced it on her show? So just calm down - don't be so quick to slam her. It's pretty obvious that she has nothing to do with this.

We know. I just find her annoying.

Clearly if Ellen DeGeneres or any other celebrity actually were calling for a boycott, the first step would be a press release or in the case of a celebrity with a TV show, a statement on the show. A sloppily-written flyer slapped up around the neighborhood? Not likely.

Sounds like one gay guy with a printer trying to drum up some support for his lonely boycott.

they're is a clear difference between their and there.

humor joke.

Can we have Portia De Rossi back? Thanks.

I've never been. How are the burgers there?

Henry Ford was a prominent Nazi supporter.

I don't see anyone boycotting Ford.

"this past following weekend"

Wait, I get it. This hasn't happened yet. A gay John Connor could still prevent this tragedy!

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Why can't a gay man get some meat between his buns without being harassed ?

love the terminator reference!

I thought gays were all attractive, successful, fabulous dressers. How did the illiterate moron join the team? Maybe the flier writer is only bi-curious.

Ellen doesn't BOYcott anything. She will, on occasion, BLOODCLOT a business.

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