{"id":2151006,"date":"2025-11-12T08:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2151006"},"modified":"2025-11-12T08:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:31:18","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-breaks-down-in-tears-honoring-late-bandleader-cleto-escobedo-iii-we-are-devastated-by-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jimmy-kimmel-breaks-down-in-tears-honoring-late-bandleader-cleto-escobedo-iii-we-are-devastated-by-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Breaks Down in Tears Honoring Late Bandleader Cleto Escobedo III: \u2018We Are Devastated by This\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> opened Tuesday\u2019s episode of \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a>\u201d with a heartfelt tribute to his childhood friend and late-night bandleader Cleto Escobedo III<\/a>, who died Tuesday at 59.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been on the air for almost 23 years, and I\u2019ve had to do some hard monologues along the way,\u201d Kimmel said, crying. \u201cBut this one\u2019s the hardest because late last night, early this morning, we lost someone very special who was much too young to go, and I\u2019d like to tell you about him. If you don\u2019t mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Kimmel recalled his lifelong friendship with Escobedo<\/a>, photos…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jimmy Kimmel opened Tuesday\u2019s episode of \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d with a heartfelt tribute to his childhood friend and late-night bandleader Cleto Escobedo III, who died Tuesday at 59. \u201cWe\u2019ve been on the air for almost 23 years, and I\u2019ve had to do some hard monologues along the way,\u201d Kimmel said, crying. \u201cBut this one\u2019s the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2151007,"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":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2151006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jimmy-Kimmel-Breaks-Down-in-Tears-Honoring-Late-Bandleader-Cleto.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151006","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=2151006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2151008,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151006\/revisions\/2151008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2151007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}