The YouTube beauty star and makeup artist NikkieTutorials threw some shade at Ellen DeGeneres in a February interview on a Dutch talk show, according to translations of the interview.
Nikkie de Jager visited "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" in January after she came out as transgender in an emotional video earlier that month. In February, she joined Matthijs van Nieuwkerk on his talk show, "De Wereld Draait Door." The host asked about her visit to DeGeneres' set, and de Jager was honest, saying her experiences with the two shows strongly differed.
"Let me say that there's a big difference between this show and Ellen DeGeneres, and I'm saying that in favor of this show," de Jager said, according to a translation by YouTuber Sebastian Williams, a native Dutch speaker. "It's nice that you say 'hi' before the show. She didn't."
Van Nieuwkerk asked whether DeGeneres was "cold and distant," and de Jager agreed. But the YouTuber also acknowledged that it was an "honor" to be on DeGeneres' show. "It was a huge honor to be on that stage with Ellen, but it wasn't as nice as I thought."
De Jager did not immediately return Insider's request for comment.
While the interview was in February, English translations of the clip circulated online on Sunday after Williams posted a video about it, which had more than 1 million views as of Monday afternoon.
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