{"id":2195613,"date":"2025-12-11T22:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2195613"},"modified":"2025-12-11T22:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:36:57","slug":"disney-did-not-hear-from-white-house-during-jimmy-kimmel-suspension-dana-walden-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/disney-did-not-hear-from-white-house-during-jimmy-kimmel-suspension-dana-walden-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney \u201cDid Not Hear\u201d From White House During Jimmy Kimmel Suspension, Dana Walden Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">When ABC suspended <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0320037\/\">Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a> in September, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0874339\/\">President Donald Trump<\/a> crowed on social media that the show had been canceled. It wasn\u2019t \u2014 Kimmel returned to the air six days later \u2014 but during that time, top Disney executives didn\u2019t communicate with the White House.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1030682\/\">Disney Entertainment<\/a> co-chair <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm17726093\/\">Dana Walden<\/a>, who was a key figure in both the decision to pull <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0320037\/\">Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a> off the air on Sept. 17 and to restart the show the following week. In an interview on Bloomberg TV\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0997016\/\">The Circuit<\/a>, she said neither Trump himself nor anyone from the White House called her or Disney CEO <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2250609\/\">Bob Iger<\/a> to discuss the suspension.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not hear from them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm9603346\/\">Walden<\/a> said the decision to suspend Kimmel and his show came down to wanting to \u201ctake the temperature down\u201d after conservative activists took umbrage at comments he made about the murder of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6135760\/\">Charlie Kirk<\/a>.<\/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.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! in September, President Donald Trump crowed on social media that the show had been canceled. It wasn\u2019t \u2014 Kimmel returned to the air six days later \u2014 but during that time, top Disney executives didn\u2019t communicate with the White House. That\u2019s according to Disney Entertainment co-chair Dana Walden, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2195614,"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":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2195613","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\/12\/Disney-Did-Not-Hear-From-White-House-During-Jimmy-Kimmel.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195613","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=2195613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195615,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195613\/revisions\/2195615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2195614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}