Billie Eilish makes a surprise appearance in Ellen’s virtual audience and reveals blonde inspiration

Ellen DeGeneres got a surprise audience member in singer Billie Eilish on Tuesday’s upcoming episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

The 63-year-old talk show host noticed that someone in her virtual audience had gone missing, only for the 19-year-old singer to make a surprise appearance.

When asked what she’s doing there, she admitted, ‘I’m just here to watch, I’m a big fan,’ as the virtual audience reacted around her, before Ellen made her the next guest as they talked about her new blonde look, which was inspired by a fan edit.

While Eilish has frequently changed her hair color since bursting onto the music scene in 2019, this is the first time she went blonde.

When asked what made her go blonde, the seven-time Grammy winner said, ‘I’ve been wanting to go blonde for awhile, I don’t know what came over me.’

‘I saw a fan edit, when I had green hair, and they just edited blonde hair on me, and I was like, “Ah! It’s so sick I kinda want it.”‘ 

She added that she, ‘thought of it as a dream,’ but she didn’t think it could actually happen, ‘because my hair has been through so much I thought it would burn it all off if I tried, but I did it!’

Ellen mentioned that Eilish had to wear a wig during the transition, adding that it’s tough to go from, ‘dark dark hair to that color of blonde.’

Eilish responded that, ‘Yes, it’s very hard,’ and that, ‘It took about six weeks’ to complete the transition.

The singer added that January 16 was the first day, followed by, ‘two weeks of healing, letting my hair kind of take it in and digest and recover.’ 

Ellen asked if her hair was healthy and, ‘not falling out when you brush it,’ but Eilish admitted, ‘Well, I gotta say, it’s been falling out when I brush it for years.’ 

She also opened up about her upcoming Happier Than Ever, which is slated for release on June 30. 

‘It’s a whole new era. I’m so excited I can’t tell you. It’s the most proud I’ve been of anything I’ve created,’ she said. 

She also spoke about her hit documentary Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, which debuted on Apple TV Plus in late February.

‘It took us like six hours to get through it because we kept pausing it over and over and just like screaming and running around. It was crazy,’ she said.

The singer added she’s ‘pretty much herself’ in front of cameras and she was ‘pretty worried about what was gonna be in there,’ but she loved the final product.