Working up an appetite! Ellen DeGeneres grabs a healthy lunch with her celebrity trainer pal Bob Harper in LA

Published: 18:56 EST, 17 October 2015 | Updated: 22:27 EST, 17 October 2015

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Longtime friends Ellen DeGeneres and Bob Harper met up for a lunch date at celebrity hotspot, Fred Segal Mauro Cafe in Hollywood on Saturday.

Ellen, 57, and Bob, 50, have been friends for nearly two decades and the old pals are regularly spotted out together in Tinseltown.

The Emmy Award-winning talk show host wore a blue and white checkered plaid top with slim-fitting white pants and kept shaded from the LA heat in tortoise shell shades.

Longtime friends: Ellen DeGeneres and Bob Harper met up for a lunch date at celebrity hotspot, Fred Segal Mauro Cafe in Hollywood on Saturday

The Biggest Loser trainer donned in all black showed off his tattoos and looked sexy with his swept back blonde mane.

While the pair have known each other for decades, it was only until a few years back when Harper offered to train DeGeneres and her wife, Portia de Rossi.

The talk show host discussed the intense workout on The Ellen DeGeneres Show during her opening monologue back in 2012.

Biggest Loser challenge: While the pair have known each other for decades, it was only until a few years back when Harper offered to train DeGeneres and her wife, Portia de Rossi

'If I walked out here looking like a drunk cowboy it is because I did a new workout recently,' Ellen explained to her live studio audience.

'Also I've been drinking because of the workout,' she joked.

DeGeneres explained that her and Harper had been friends for years but after running into him at a party with her wife, Portia, 42, the celebrity trainer suggested they all workout together sometime.

Workout buddies: After her first workout with Harper, Ellen took to her talk show and described The Biggest Loser trainer as the 'spawn of Satan'

Ellen agreed to the offer but explained to the audience, 'If you watch (The Biggest Loser) you know what I'm talking about, he works you out really really hard.'

'I thought, oh he's not going to do that to us, we're just going to chat,' she admitted. 'We haven't seen each other in a while.'

Ellen described her pal Harper, 'He's a nice guy, he's smart, he's funny...also he's the spawn of Satan.'

Bob's beat down: Harper trained Ellen and Portia in a grueling workout which included rowing, pushups, situps, jumping rope and air squats

The crowd broke into laughter as the talk show host described the grueling workout which included rowing, pushups, situps, jumping rope and air squats.

'I don't know why I need to row, I don't own a rowboat, I'm not a viking, I'm a talk show host,' she joked.

'If I'm going to be on a boat somewhere Kathie Lee Gifford better be singing on it, that's the kind of boat I'm going to be on.'

DeGeneres said when she began to whine about the grueling routine Harper shot back with, 'Stop crying big baby and keep moving!'

Toned tush: The training must have paid off as Ellen and her wife Portia de Rossi showed off their toned physique at the People's Choice Awards in Los Angeles this past January