TV Updates Intro for September 25, 2025 Dear Gossips, Preliminary ratings for the Tuesday night episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! have been released and they were bigly. Over six million people tuned in on linear to watch Jimmy’s return after the network suspended his show, and that doesn’t include streaming, so the number will definitely By Lainey • Sep 25, 2025 09:09 am
TV Updates Jimmy Kimmel 2.0 With all eyes on him—except those in blacked out markets controlled by Nexstar and Sinclair Media (but they could and probably did watch on YouTube)—Jimmy Kimmel returned to host his first episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! since his show was abruptly pulled off the air last week. Call By Sarah • Sep 24, 2025 10:34 am
TV Updates Jimmy Kimmel returns I was originally planning to address the Jimmy Kimmel situation in a newsletter at The Squawk, prompted by a question posed for our mailbag: Regarding the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel. How can Hollywood respond? WGA and SAG-AFTRA both responded but beyond that what actions could they take? Another strike? (Courtesy By Sarah • Sep 23, 2025 10:11 am
Business of Hollywood The View, a Letter, and Lilith ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air last Wednesday and there have been no updates on the show’s future since, but it has remained the top story in Hollywood for days. What we’ve been watching for is whether or not it would stay that way. With social By Lainey • Sep 22, 2025 02:53 pm
Top Reads Another late-night host is silenced Last night, ABC announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live! would be put on indefinite hiatus effective immediately following “controversial” statements Jimmy Kimmel made in Monday night’s monologue regarding the assassination of right-wing advocate Charlie Kirk. Notably, Kimmel’s comments were not about Kirk himself, but about his alleged killer. Kimmel By Sarah • Sep 18, 2025 11:12 am
Top Reads Jimmy and John say “No” to the Oscars Matthew Belloni at Puck broke the story yesterday that Jimmy Kimmel will not be returning to host the Oscars. But first a note on Matthew and Puck as Sarah and I posted about Puck’s place in the celebrity media ecosystem back in February at The Squawk. Puck has quickly By Lainey • Jul 30, 2024 12:09 pm
Oscars 2024 Intro for March 11, 2024 Dear Gossips, Finally, this interminable award season is over. It’s done! We can stop talking about the Oscars for at least two months! Until Cannes kicks off in May, anyway! Zendaya can go inside at last! We’ll be picking apart the good, the bad, and the WTF all By Sarah • Mar 11, 2024 05:12 am
Oscars 2023 An On-The-Rails Oscars The production of the 95th Academy Awards went… well. There were no bumps, fumbles, mistaken awards or assaults. It went smoothly. Which – of course it did. After last year, and the correct calling-out of the Academy for doing effectively nothing about a live televised assault (it’s a word, okay? By Duana • Mar 13, 2023 05:12 am
Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy Kimmel will host the Oscars again If it feels too early to be talking about who is hosting the 2023 Oscars, IT IS. Usually, host announcements come a month or so before the ceremony, but after the mess made earlier this year, the Academy is being pro-active about seeming in charge. Yesterday, they announced Jimmy Kimmel By Sarah • Nov 08, 2022 11:42 am
Weddings Bennifer Wedding: Guests and a No-Show As we all know by now, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s wedding reception weekend happened in Savannah and I’m hoping to get to the actual couple later because it was previously reported that Vogue was covering the event and I keep checking Vogue.com and their Instagram account By Lainey • Aug 22, 2022 10:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine: Year End Viral Before we get to the new year though, just a bit of Chris Pine catchup – and some other celebrities too. He was seen before Christmas, on December 10, at the Sunset Tower alongside some other big stars to celebrate Amanda Anka’s birthday. Amanda is married to Jason Bateman who, By Lainey • Jan 04, 2022 10:56 am
Amazingness Intro for December 8, 2021 Dear Gossips, I didn’t even realise it last week when I posted about Norman Lear and Jimmy Kimmel’s Live In Front of a Studio Audience and their back-to-back re-enactments of an episode each of The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes that it was counterprogramming against NBC’ By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 09:06 am
Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy Kimmel Blames Matt Damon Jimmy Kimmel and Matt Damon have been doing their “they hate each other” bit for years and years now. Probably it’s gotten a little old…at least before the pandemic. Since the pandemic, maybe it’s a source of comfort, something familiar, a thing that you know that, no By Lainey • Jan 14, 2021 01:31 pm
Celebrity Lifestyle Brands Gwyneth Paltrow’s Changing Light Gwyneth Paltrow was on Jimmy Kimmel Live! the other night to promote goop’s new face oil. They begin by talking about New Year’s Eve celebrations and pandemic lockdown and how she and her family are coping. She says that it’s been especially hard on her son, Moses, By Lainey • Jan 06, 2021 01:02 pm
Top Reads Taylor Swift: Too Many Eggs and a Non-Egg I’ve now had a few days with Taylor Swift’s evermore. Like folklore before it, evermore has been well-received. Evenly received? Reviews are generally positive though perhaps slightly less effusive because the surprise factor isn’t quite as strong with this one. As Taylor has explained, evermore is a By Lainey • Dec 15, 2020 10:42 am
Music BLACKPINK on Kimmel Part of my job as a television presenter is to interview celebrities – and for those of us in this profession, no matter what it is, be it news, or entertainment, or sports, we all have lazy fallbacks. A good example is the “how” question. You hear it ALL THE TIME. By Lainey • Oct 21, 2020 03:01 pm
