According to Deadline, Jimmy Kimmel is hinting that he might retire from his late night show once his current contract with ABC is over.
What’s Happening:
- Jimmy Kimmel may be leaving the show that bears his name after a 20+ year run.
- He told the Los Angeles Times, “I think this is my final contract. I hate to even say it, because everyone’s laughing at me now–each time I think that, and then it turns out to be not the case. I still have a little more than two years left on my contract, and that seems pretty good. That seems like enough.”
- “It’s hard to yearn for it when you’re doing it,” he said. “Wednesday night, I was very tired and I had all these scripts to go through — I had to revise and rewrite all these pitch ideas for the Oscars — and I was literally nodding off onto my computer. In those moments, I think, ‘I cannot wait until my contract is over.’ But then, I take the summer off or I go on strike, and you start going, ‘Yeah, I miss the fun stuff.'”
- Since, as Kimmel states, he still has more than two years left on his current contract, he will have plenty of time to think about what he can do next.
- He said, “I don’t know exactly what I will do. It might not be anything that anyone other than me is aware of. I have a lot of hobbies — I love to cook, I love to draw, I imagine myself learning to do sculptures. I know that when I die, if I’m fortunate enough to die on my own terms in my own bed, I’m going to think, ‘Oh, I was never able to get to this, and I was never able to get to that.’ I just know it about myself.”
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! has been a part of late-night television for 21 seasons.
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