It’s Grinch season and no one is more excited than Ella the cat!
This rescue cat — and movie connoisseur — has more than 60 million likes and nearly 800,000 followers on TikTok (@ellawatchestv_), where her owner, Emily Beck, shares videos of her pet doing her favorite pastime: watching movies, more specifically, Grinch.
Ella previously went viral in 2023 for her love of television, but she just experienced another — more festive — wave of fame after Beck shared a TikTok video of the older cat’s intense love for the 2018 version of the holiday movie.
Ella, an older cat who likes to watch ‘The Grinch’.
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Posted on December 11, the video shows clips of the Grinch-obsessed kitty watching the movie intensely. It also includes text explaining Ella’s love story with the animated film.
“Five years ago I adopted an older cat who turned out to be a huge Grinch fan,” Beck described TikTok’s inception. “I would put it on her when I was running errands to keep her occupied.”
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In time, Ella clearly wanted to share the joy Grinch with her owner and began trying to get Beck to join her while she watched TV, according to the viral TikTok, which has more than four million views.
Ella’s growing obsession with film, Beck said, led to a significant change in their household.
“I’ve never been a huge Grinch fan, but now I’m buying her anything Grinch related,” the owner wrote, before revealing that one such item was an “oversized Grinch pillow,” which, for scale, has a head bigger than the Grinch. . cat.
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Ella is sleeping on her Grinch pillow.
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Ella rests on her ‘jumbo’ Grinch pillow. Ella is sleeping on her Grinch pillow. PHOTO:
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Ella rests on her ‘jumbo’ Grinch pillow. PHOTO:
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But that doesn’t bother Ella, who takes a peaceful nap on a giant Grinch in one of her TikTok clips.
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The cat’s obsession with the Grinch isn’t limited to the holiday season, Beck assured in another TikTok. In fact, the “elderly cat” watches the Christmas character on TV “all year long,” the owner wrote above a shot of Ella wagging her tail while enjoying her favorite movie.
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Ella watches ‘The Grinch’.
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As for how she discovered her cat vacation obsession, Beck “turned on the new Grinch movie one day after work, and [Ella] he was SAVED 🤣,” revealed the owner in a comment on TikTok.
Beck said she and Ella “watch something together” in the morning and “right before we go to bed,” the owner said Newsweek last year. “It became our way of connecting!”
“I think she’s hysterical,” Beck told Ella. “I adopted her when she was 10 and had no idea she would be so bubbly and goofy. If that’s what makes her happy, I’m happy to do it forever.”
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