US chat show host Ellen DeGeneres' flood-cursed Cotswolds farmhouse is on the brink of sale after she secretly slashed an astonishing £4.5 million off its asking price, the Daily Mail can reveal. 'So that is where the initial £22.5 million price came from. And indeed in recent days, interested parties enquiring about Kitesbridge Farm on estate agents Sotheby's International's website have been met with the prompt: 'This property is no longer available'. The colossal price rise for an estate which had a well-publicised flooding concern seemed back then to be baffling to local Cotswolds estate agents. 'And even then she paid £2.5m million over the asking price which was just £12.5 million.