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Jimmy Kimmel Apologizes to Emmy Winner Quinta Brunson
Jimmy Kimmel's got a batch to celebrate.
Late nighttime show Jimmy Kimmel Live! is soon approaching its two-decade milestone, and it looks similar the big won't beryllium going anyplace immoderate clip soon. ABC announced connected Sept. 20 that another 3 years of the amusement is officially locked in.
Talk astir securing the bag.
Kimmel has headlined arsenic good arsenic enforcement produced the amusement since 2003.
The host's declaration was acceptable to expire adjacent twelvemonth but has present been extended done the 23rd season. In a statement, the comedian responded to the quality saying, "After 2 decades astatine ABC, I americium present looking guardant to 3 years of what they telephone ‘quiet quitting.'"
This quality comes a fewer months aft the late-night big contemplated making a imaginable exit. In June, the 54-year-old told Variety, "I privation I knew [what] I was gonna do… I person moments wherever I go, ‘I cannot bash this anymore.' And I person moments wherever I go, ‘what americium I gonna bash with my beingness if I'm not doing this anymore?' It's a precise analyzable thing."
The president of ABC Entertainment Craig Erwich called the Emmy Award-winning amusement the "heartbeat of late-night television," noting, "For 20 years, Jimmy Kimmel has been a immense portion of the ABC family." He added, "Not lone has helium entertained our audience's nighttime aft nighttime with his crisp comedy, dynamic interviews and irreverent humor, but helium has gotten america done immoderate of the astir momentous events successful our past with optimism and heart."
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New episodes of Jimmy Kimmel Live! air weeknights connected ABC.
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