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# Homer Simpson Shoved Out of Ellen's Oscar Selfie

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## Nate Rawlings


Mar 5, 2014 3:01 PM UTC

by 

[Nate Rawlings](https://time.com/author/nate-rawlings/)


## Nate Rawlings


Mar 5, 2014 3:01 PM UTC

Midway through the Oscars on Sunday night, host Ellen DeGeneres staged perhaps the most star-studded selfie in history:

> [](https://twitter.com/TheEllenShow/status/440322224407314432)

The photo shattered the record for most re-tweets, and as of Wednesday morning had been re-tweeted more than 3.2 million times. But take a closer look, and you can see that Bradley Cooper wasn’t the only star on the bottom row:

> [](https://twitter.com/HomerJSimpson/status/441009474699280384)

Despite Homer’s call to break Twitter again, the photo has gotten only about 60,000 re-tweets from _The Simpsons_‘ official account and from Homer’s own feed. But one of those re-tweets came from Oscar winner Jared Leto, who took home his first golden statue and is now part of the legendary cartoon’s universe:

> [](https://twitter.com/JaredLeto/status/441004209438072832)

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