Ellen DeGeneres wins Teen Choice Award and tribute to wife Portia de Rossi in speech

Ellen DeGeneres added another award to her vast collection at the Teen Choice Awards Sunday night.

Ellen attended the ceremony in Los Angeles with wife Portia de Rossi on what was their seventh anniversary and took the stage after beating out Jimmy Fallon, Kevin Hart, Jimmy Kimmel, George Lopez and Amy Schumer in the category of Choice Comedian.

“Wow, thank you so much. I’m honored to be in that category,” Ellen said in her speech. ‘There were some hilarious people, and so thank you very much. And what a coincidence! And it’s convenient! I was on my way to the beach. I had forgotten my surfboard so this will come in handy. I’ll put it on top of my car. I wanna say right now that I am pro-Teen Choice—just wanna get that out there. And, you know, they say teens make bad decisions, but you made a very good decision tonight by choosing me. That was smart, smart, smart. All of you. I wanna say also it feels good to be chosen, but there was a time in my life that I was not chosen. I was the opposite of chosen because I was different, and I think I wanna make sure that everyone knows that what makes you different right now makes you stand out later in life. You should be proud of being different, proud of who you are.”

Ellen also paid tribute to her wife: “The most important thing I wanna say is just really embrace who you are, because being unique is very, very important and fitting in is not all that matters. It’s being unique and being who you are. And what an amazing day this is, this is my seven-year wedding anniversary, so happy anniversary.”