{"id":2041870,"date":"2025-09-22T20:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2041870"},"modified":"2025-09-22T20:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:23:09","slug":"disney-announces-jimmy-kimmel-live-will-return-september-23-following-temporary-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/disney-announces-jimmy-kimmel-live-will-return-september-23-following-temporary-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Announces \u2018Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u2019 Will Return September 23 Following Temporary Suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em> is returning to ABC less than a week after it was announced that it had been suspended indefinitely due to comments the late night host made about <strong>Charlie Kirk<\/strong>\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cLast Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country,\u201d Disney said in a statement on Monday, September 22, per <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2025\/09\/22\/jimmy-kimmel-suspension-ends-return-to-abc\/86298338007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:USA Today;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><em>USA Today<\/em><\/a>. \u201cIt is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kimmel, 57, criticized the response from Republicans the day after Kirk was shot and killed at the age of 31 during the first stop of his American Comeback Tour at Utah Valley University on September 10.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xavier Collin\/Image Press Agency\/MEGA<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/tv\/articles\/jimmy-kimmel-live-replacement-named-144653862.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:National Enquirer previously reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\"><em>National Enquirer<\/em> previously reported<\/a>, Disney\u2019s ABC told <em>NPR<\/em> and other outlets that \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live will be preempted indefinitely\u201d on Wednesday, September 17, following remarks Kimmel made on Monday\u2019s episode about Charlie Kirk\u2019s murderer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,\u201d Kimmel stated at the time. \u201cIn between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\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 www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Kimmel Live! is returning to ABC less than a week after it was announced that it had been suspended indefinitely due to comments the late night host made about Charlie Kirk\u2019s murder. \u201cLast Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2041871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[340116,23301,23060,359322,368492],"class_list":["post-2041870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-disney","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-press-agency","tag-utah-valley-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Disney-Announces-\u2018Jimmy-Kimmel-Live-Will-Return-September-23-Following.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041870","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=2041870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2041871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}