Jimmy Kimmel’s future on ABC was floating in the air, even before his baking Cen TV comments, sources told Page Six.
The numerous 100 millionaires late-night hosts have only been on their Disney contract for a few months and were scheduled to begin negotiations with Big Wig later this year.
However, it is said that ABC may be ready to kick him out from this season onwards.
Sources said the network was able to use the uproar on his candid nightly monologue to pull the plug early, avoiding another year of Kimmel’s controversial comments.
One insider said Disney chief Bob Iger said, “I don’t want to go to war with Donald Trump now, just like I’ve stabilized Disney…I don’t know what they’re planning, but the fuss can’t come back so loud.”
Despite this, another source said that Kimmel may have put off plans to leave a few weeks ago, saying, “Kimmel may not want to leave.
“If he was thinking about leaving, he would definitely remain in it.”
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” The 57-year-old host was found in Century City on Thursday after his show went on hiatus to meet his lawyer. (Austin’s clients include Seth MacFarlane, Jude Law, Dave Bautista and Jeffrey Wright.)
It is said that Kimmel can start bidding for mega payments from ABC, but Kimmel is a close friend of Disney Entertainment co-chair Dana Walden, and recently sources have insisted that she won’t x him.
“I haven’t seen Dana agreeing to push him out,” the source said.
Certainly it was Walden who called the comedian on Wednesday night.
The Disney and Kimmel lawyers did not return to us.
On Wednesday, ABC yank Kimmel’s longtime late-night show “indefinitely” over comments he made against right-wing icon Charlie Kirk, who died in a monologue on Monday night. Kimmel fired when he said the “Magagang” was trying to score political points from Kirk’s execution.
“We struck out a few new lows over the weekend, trying desperately to characterise this child who murdered Charlie Kirk as something other than them, and try to do everything we can to score political points from there,” Kimmel said on his show.
Disney, the parent company of ABC, has since denounced Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Kerr for his comments on Kirk’s defendant murderer, Tyler Robinson.
Sinclair, a media company run as the largest ABC affiliate group, has also issued a list of requests for Kimmel’s late-night talk show to return into the air.
However, sources said at the deadline Thursday that the late-night host “doesn’t want to apologise for what he said.”
President Trump’s intimate ally, Kirk was shot dead in the neck while talking at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University on September 10th.
