Ellen DeGeneres shares summer vacation photos as she launches 12th season of daytime show

Ellen is back!

After a summer vacation in Europe with wife Portia de Rossi, funny lady Ellen DeGeneres launches season 12 of her daytime show with a two-part episode that begins airing today.

‘It’s like Coachella except there will be clean bathrooms,’ she says of the multi-day affair.

Of her show turning 12 Ellen says: ‘This year’s going to be awkward and oily and raging with hormones.’

Among her guests over the two days will be Adam Levine and Maroon 5, Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani and, ugh, Kim Kardashian.

Here is the opening monologue: