{"id":2157881,"date":"2025-11-15T02:34:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2157881"},"modified":"2025-11-15T02:34:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:34:29","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-on-cleto-escobedos-health-battle-before-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jimmy-kimmel-on-cleto-escobedos-health-battle-before-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel on Cleto Escobedo&#8217;s Health Battle Before Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The \u201cStraight Up\u201d singer shared a sweet tribute <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQ74-MtATM3\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> Nov. 11 saying, \u201cMy heart is heavy today as we say goodbye to the incredible Cleto Escobedo III.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Noting she first met Cleto when he was playing the saxophone at a small bar at Las Vegas\u2019 Caesars Palace, Paula recalled,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> \u201cI was putting together my band for my first world tour and the moment I heard him, I knew I had to hire him, even though he didn\u2019t have any touring experience yet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">She gushed that Cleto\u2019s \u201ctalent and energy were undeniable\u201d and that she was thrilled to see him \u201chave an amazing career, reuniting with his best friend Jimmy Kimmel as the bandleader on<em> Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cCleto was pure light and soul, both on and off stage,\u201d she <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">wrote<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">. \u201cSending so much love to his family and everyone who loved him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/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 www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cStraight Up\u201d singer shared a sweet tribute Instagram Nov. 11 saying, \u201cMy heart is heavy today as we say goodbye to the incredible Cleto Escobedo III.\u201d Noting she first met Cleto when he was playing the saxophone at a small bar at Las Vegas\u2019 Caesars Palace, Paula recalled, \u201cI was putting together my band [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2157882,"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-2157881","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\/11\/Jimmy-Kimmel-on-Cleto-Escobedos-Health-Battle-Before-Death.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157881","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=2157881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157883,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157881\/revisions\/2157883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2157882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}