Oprah Winfrey is ending her daytime program, The Oprah Winfrey Show, in 2011. Of course, you already saw this on Twitter or on someone's Facebook status or got an email about it or was IMed...or was told in person, I guess...if you're lame.

If you're Ellen DeGeneres, though, you find out by picking up the phone and having Oprah on the other end tell you. That's like God calling you or me, but in this case, the caller actually has true absolute power.

Ellen DeGeneres has reacted to the news that Oprah Winfrey will announce on Friday that she will end her network television talk show in 2011.

"Right before I came out here, I got a call from Oprah and she told me that she is announcing that next year will be her last year," Ellen revealed to her audience on Thursday, following a taping of her show. "It will be her 25th year and she feels like it's time for her to stop."

Ellen credited Oprah for opening up the market and allowing talk show hosts like herself to make it.

"I don't think I could be here without her. I think she has blazed a trail," Ellen said. "She is an amazing woman. She will always be the Queen of daytime television and she also said she is leaving me all of her money. I was like, thanks Oprah, thank you."

Ellen said she has fond memories of her recent O Magazine cover shoot with Oprah and she can't wait to see what happens with Lady O in the future.

"She is an amazing woman. I love her and we've gotten very close over this ridiculous idea that I had of getting on the cover of O -- a silly dream... And now we talk all the time and she is fantastic and I love her and I wish her the best," Ellen told her audience. "She deserves to rest. She has worked really, really hard." (Access Hollywood)

Hmmmm, so Oprah worked really hard, created a ton of things, and now is going to rest. Is that right, Ellen? I think I've heard this story before... Tell me, is this the first chapter in the new "Bible of 'O'." Are you creating a religion based around your personal savior, Ellen? If so, count me in. Any religion that can tell me what books to read, how to get skinny and improve my love life sounds just dandy.