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Portia De Rossi Dresses Up as Marilyn Monroe to Sing Ellen DeGeneres Happy Birthday

2:32 PM PST 1/26/2011 by THR staff

The daytime talk show host turned 53 Wednesday.

On Wednesday, Ellen DeGeneres turned the big 5-3 and got a pretty surprising gift: Her longtime love, Portia De Rossi, belting out “Happy Birthday,” while dressed as Marilyn Monroe!

The performance goes smoothly until – whoops! - a wind machine "malfunctions" and blows de Rossi off her feet.
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