{"id":2209325,"date":"2025-12-23T01:36:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2209325"},"modified":"2025-12-23T01:36:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:36:33","slug":"why-is-jimmy-kimmel-giving-a-deeply-personal-christmas-speech-on-british-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-is-jimmy-kimmel-giving-a-deeply-personal-christmas-speech-on-british-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Jimmy Kimmel Giving A ‘Deeply Personal’ Christmas Speech On British TV?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> won\u2019t be having a silent night on Christmas<\/a>. He\u2019ll be condemning fascism and perhaps President Donald Trump<\/a> in a Yuletide address on British TV\u2019s Channel 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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According to outlets, the annual \u201cAlternative Christmas Message\u201d<\/a> from the \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d host will air after King Charles\u2019 traditional royal speech.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The late night comedian reportedly will dig into his personal experience as a victim of censorship to declare<\/a>: \u201cFrom a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cDonald Trump\u2019s return to the White House and wide-ranging impact on the world has been the story of 2025 and it would be hard to think of a better person to address it than Jimmy Kimmel, who has found himself on the frontline of America\u2019s battle over free speech,\u201d a Channel 4 spokesperson told the Guardian<\/a> and other outlets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jimmy Kimmel will celebrate free speech in a Christmas speech on U.K. TV.<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
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The prospect of the late night comedian roasting Trump instead of chestnuts over an open fire is an intriguing prospect. Citing an \u201cinsider\u201d at the U.K. station, Deadline said his words<\/a> will be \u201ctonally warm but with an underlying serious message.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The speech will be a \u201cdeeply personal and characteristically jovial address,\u201d the channel told Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kimmel teetered on the verge of tears<\/a> last week in his final monologue before the holidays.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cOn behalf of all of us at the show, I just want to say that we appreciate your support, your enthusiasm \u2014 and not just for watching this year,\u201d he said. \u201cYou literally pulled us out of a hole and we cannot thank you enough, personally, professionally.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kimmel, the major networks\u2019 longest-running late-night talk host, hit the darkest moment of his career when an off-key remark about Charlie Kirk\u2019s death led to Trump\u2019s FCC reportedly pressuring Disney to yank \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d off the air in September.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The show went dark for several days before bursting back on the airwaves amid national outrage over Trump and co.\u2019s attempts to squelch free speech \u2015 and Disney\u2019s apparent caving to the administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jimmy Kimmel won\u2019t be having a silent night on Christmas. He\u2019ll be condemning fascism and perhaps President Donald Trump in a Yuletide address on British TV\u2019s Channel 4. According to outlets, the annual \u201cAlternative Christmas Message\u201d from the \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d host will air after King Charles\u2019 traditional royal speech. The late night comedian reportedly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2209326,"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":[25174],"tags":[22116,23060],"class_list":["post-2209325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-christmas","tag-jimmy-kimmel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Why-Is-Jimmy-Kimmel-Giving-A-Deeply-Personal-Christmas-Speech.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209325","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=2209325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2209327,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209325\/revisions\/2209327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2209326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}