Unpacking the Rebrand: Behind the Relaunch of 'Ellis Ever After' Podcast

Ash Brown
5 days ago
4 min read

ATLANTA, GA - April 9, 2025 - Today, Webby award-winning podcast hosts, New York Times bestselling authors, actors and power couple, Devale and Khadeen Ellis, announce that their successful and beloved iHeart Radio podcast, Dead Ass with Khadeen and Devale, is getting a new look, format and name. The podcast is set to relaunch as Ellis Ever After on Wednesday, April 16, 2025 on all streaming platforms and will continue to follow the fan-favorite, millennial married couple, while acknowledging the evolution of them as podcast hosts, actors, and parents. This new chapter of the podcast will highlight their growth as a couple and family, while diving into the exciting milestones, challenges, and transformations that have shaped their journey since the podcast first began.

Ellis Ever After will bring what fans of Dead Ass with Khadeen and Devale appreciate about how these two people are willing to tell the hard truths about the state of the world and current events, with a sense of love, life, laughter and levity. Devale and Khadeen will explore pressing topics each week with deeper conversations, bigger celebrity guests, and an all new hosting format that will engage audiences during each week’s episode with the inclusion of permanent guest hosts from the original Dead Ass team- Tribble, Josh Dwain and Matt Ellis.

“We are so grateful to every listener, subscriber and supporter that has been part of our Dead Ass family. You have continued to allow us to evolve and reach for new heights as a family, and we are so excited to embark on this new chapter together,” said Devale and Khadeen Ellis. “Don’t worry – Ellis Ever After will still have all the Dead Ass elements you know and love, but will allow us to dig even deeper into the topics that are on our hearts and minds as we continue to grow as people and as parents.”

Where past episodes of the Dead Ass with Khadeen and Devale may have approached topics with a ‘her versus him’ tone, this new format will be even more intentional, personal and will explore sides of the Ellises that audiences have never seen before. It’s not about stardom, fame or fortune - but the bigger existential question: how can we ultimately become the best versions of ourselves for our kids?

Dead Ass with Khadeen and Devale launched in 2019 and quickly became a fan-favorite podcast, averaging 150,000 downloads per episode. Over the years, Khadeen and Devale have been joined by a variety of high-profile guest stars and prominent thought leaders across entertainment, politics, and culture including former President Joe Biden, Regina Hall, Sherri Shepherd, Shan Boodram, and Sterling K. Brown among others. They’ve taken their podcast on a nationwide tour, selling out every show in major cities like NYC, Philadelphia, DC, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, and Atlanta.

Outside of the podcast, Devale and Khadeen are co-producers for the Broadway production of Othello, starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, which just broke the record for top-grossing play in Broadway history. Devale starred as the lead in the #1 Netflix movie Meet Me Next Christmas alongside Christina Milian and the acapella group, Pentatonix. On the TV side, Devale currently stars in his very own #1 BET+ spinoff, Zatima, and Tyler Perry’s Sistas on BET. As an actress, Khadeen has appeared on Tyler Perry’s BRUH, Will Packer’s BIGGER, with more television projects premiering in 2025. Together, they co-authored the New York Times bestselling relationship book, We Over Me: The Counterintuitive Approach to Getting Everything You Want from Your Relationship, and created The Ellises social sitcom on YouTube and Facebook. They have been married for 14 years and have four sons: Jackson, Kairo, Kaz and Dakota.

ABOUT DEVALE:

Devale is an actor, Webby award-winning podcast host, New York Times bestselling author, and former NFL player. He recently starred as the lead in the #1 Netflix movie Meet Me Next Christmas alongside Christina Milian and the acapella group, Pentatonix. He is a co-producer, alongside his wife Khadeen, for the Broadway production of Othello, starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, which just broke the record for top-grossing play in Broadway history. On the TV side, Devale currently stars in his very own #1 BET+ spinoff, Zatima, and Tyler Perry’s Sistas on BET. Some of his other credits include lead roles in feature films on Netflix, OWN and Lifetime. Devale is the creator of The Ellises social sitcom on YouTube and Facebook, and co-host of Webby award-winning podcast, Dead Ass with Khadeen and Devale, an iHeart radio podcast he hosts with his wife, Khadeen. He is also the co-author, alongside Khadeen, of the New York Times bestselling relationship book, We Over Me. Devale is a husband and father to four boys, Jackson, Kairo, Kaz and Dakota and currently lives in Atlanta, GA with his family.

ABOUT KHADEEN:

Khadeen Indréa is an actress, author and co-host of iHeart’s Webby-award-winning podcast, Dead Ass with Khadeen & Devale. She is also a co-producer, alongside her husband Devale, for the Broadway production of Othello, starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, which just broke the record for top-grossing play in Broadway history.Khadeen got her start in entertainment as a former weather, traffic and entertainment reporter before transitioning into host and on-air personality. Khadeen and her husband, Devale Ellis, co-created The Ellises social sitcom on YouTube and Facebook, which gave audiences a comedic, refreshingly honest and heartfelt look into their lives raising three boys, while balancing their respective busy careers in entertainment. Khadeen’s candid approach to being a mom, wife, actress, podcast personality and strong business woman, created keynote speaking opportunities at events for Essence, The Momference and even speaking on behalf of the Biden/Harris campaign in 2024 to lobby for greater Black Maternal Health Care services here in the US. As an actress, Khadeen has appeared on Tyler Perry’s BRUH, Will Packer’s BIGGER, with more television projects premiering in 2025.