NCS Entertainment Correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister advised on Wednesday that it was unlikely Jimmy Kimmel Live! would come again anytime quickly after the present was pulled from air over feedback made by Jimmy Kimmel concerning the murder of Charlie Kirk.
“A source close to the situation tells me that this is not a cancellation at the moment, but there is no timeline for the show to come back,” reported Wagmeister on Erin Burnett OutFront. “As we know, ABC said officially in their statement that this is pre-empted indefinitely, but I have to tell you Erin, my phone is blowing up. People in the industry are absolutely shocked over this.”
And many individuals are saying that regardless that it’s not a cancellation at this second, it’s laborious to think about the present coming again. This is just not about one remark about Charlie Kirk’s killer, it is a decade of Jimmy Kimmel bashing Trump. They’ve been going backwards and forwards for years, so it’s actually laborious to think about Trump rolling out the purple carpet and saying, “Hey, you’ve taken a break, why don’t you come back on the air.” So that’s the place they stand proper now, however individuals simply actually shocked in Hollywood, Erin.
ABC announced on Wednesday that it had suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! after receiving backlash over Kimmel’s feedback suggesting that the suspect in Kirk’s assassination, Tyler Robinson, was a right-wing Trump supporter, regardless of all proof pointing to the opposite.
President Donald Trump celebrated the information in a Truth Social post on Wednesday, writing, “Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done. Kimmel has ZERO talent.”
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