{"id":2009780,"date":"2025-09-09T20:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2009780"},"modified":"2025-09-09T20:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:41:06","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-plays-coy-about-his-future-on-late-night-tv-following-the-late-show-cancellation-national-enquirer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jimmy-kimmel-plays-coy-about-his-future-on-late-night-tv-following-the-late-show-cancellation-national-enquirer\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Plays Coy About His Future on Late-Night TV Following \u2018The Late Show\u2019 Cancellation \u2013 National Enquirer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16289\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2176px;\"><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">ZUMAPRESS.com \/ MEGA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Jimmy Kimmel<\/strong> is taking his job one day at a time.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, September 7, the TV personality, 57, attended the 2025 Creative Arts Emmys, and revealed he isn\u2019t sure how much longer he\u2019ll host <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em>, which began in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not prepared to answer that question, but it is something that I think about a lot, and things have changed a lot over the last few years,\u201d Kimmel told <em>IndieWire<\/em> per <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jimmy-kimmel-admits-to-dodging-question-about-his-future-in-late-night-tv-11805543\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>People<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach day is a new adventure and I kind of take them as they come,\u201d he added before joking, \u201cIs that a good way of dodging the question?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16286\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1717px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16286\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA1273644_002-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA1273644_002-scaled.jpg 1707w, https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA1273644_002-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA1273644_002-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA1273644_002-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA1273644_002-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA1273644_002-1366x2048.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\"\/><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">ZUMAPRESS.com \/ MEGA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/jimmy-kimmel-announces-italian-citizenship-amid-trumps-criticism-of-his-late-night-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The comedian\u2019s comments<\/a> come after <strong>Stephen Colbert\u2019s<\/strong> <em>The Late Show<\/em> was canceled by CBS in August, with the show airing through May 2026.<\/p>\n<p>After the news was announced, Kimmel took to Instagram to show <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/jimmy-fallon-jimmy-kimmel-and-more-react-to-late-night-with-stephen-colbert-cancellation-shocker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support for Colbert,<\/a> 61, writing, \u201cLove you Stephen. F**k you and all your Sheldons CBS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In February 2024, Kimmel discussed his future retirement with the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/awards\/story\/2024-02-20\/jimmy-kimmel-talks-about-his-fourth-go-at-oscar-hosting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Los Angeles Times.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is my final contract. I hate to even say it, because everyone\u2019s laughing at me now \u2014 each time I think that, and then it turns out to be not the case,\u201d he admitted, seemingly referring to how he originally planned to retire in 2023 before the writers\u2019 strike happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still have a little more than two years left on my contract, and that seems pretty good,\u201d Kimmel added. \u201cThat seems like enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '599767249846087');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source nationalenquirer.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZUMAPRESS.com \/ MEGA Jimmy Kimmel is taking his job one day at a time. On Sunday, September 7, the TV personality, 57, attended the 2025 Creative Arts Emmys, and revealed he isn\u2019t sure how much longer he\u2019ll host Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which began in 2003. \u201cI\u2019m not prepared to answer that question, but it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2009781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jimmy-Kimmel-Plays-Coy-About-His-Future-on-Late-Night-TV.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}