Seth Meyers tested positive for COVID-19. He was immediately sent home, and a week’s worth of shows were canceled.“I had no symptoms, so I was fine,” Meyers recounts. “But the whole family had it.
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Jimmy Kimmel is contemplating quitting his beloved late night TV gig.
The star has been hosting “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” since its premiere in 2003 but, after nearly 20 years, it might be time for him to close the chapter.
Kimmel revealed that he’s thinking about saying goodbye to hosting the show in a recent interview with Variety.
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“I wish I knew [what] I was gonna do,” he told the publication. “I have moments where I go, ‘I cannot do this anymore.’ And I have moments where I go, ‘what am I gonna do with my life if I’m not doing this anymore?’ It’s a very complicated thing.”
The TV personality noted that “there are practical considerations” to factor in, as well as “family and friend considerations and co-worker considerations.”
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“Eventually, I am going to have to stop doing this. I’m not going to do this forever. I would not be honest at all if I said that I have decided one way or the other. I’m thinking about it a lot, though,” he confessed.
The 54-year-old’s contract with ABC ends next year. In 2019, Kimmel signed a three-year contract with the network, which promised that he would continue hosting the late night show through its current 20th season.
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However, this isn’t the first time Kimmel has brought up the idea of quitting his Emmy-winning talk show.
Prior to extending his deal in 2019, he chatted about the possibility of exiting the show with Conan O’ Brien on the fellow former late-night star’s podcast, “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend”.
During that time, Kimmel talked
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Beyoncé for mispronouncing her name for “20 years”.Following the news of Beyoncé’s forthcoming return with ‘RENAISSANCE’, the host and comedian made his apology to the singer in the opening speech of his show yesterday (June 16).‘This will be Beyoncé’s first new album since 2016. And I feel like this is a good time to mention something that’s been bothering me,” Kimmel began, before bringing up her name on screen.“I want everybody to look at this together. The accent mark is at the end.
build a cannabis empire.But in November 2020, he made a sensational boxing comeback and drew with Roy Jones Jr, 53, over eight exhibition rounds.Tyson, 55, has since been linked with a fight against YouTube-turned prizefighter Jake Paul, 25, who is 5-0 as a boxer.He told Kimmel: “I’ve never taken it very serious but that could be really interesting.“He’s skilled enough yes, I’m going to give it to him, he’s skilled enough because he keeps winning.“Even if he’s fighting guys you don’t believe are good enough fighters, they should be able to beat him, but they can’t.“So he’s beating people who really he shouldn’t really be beating, we’ve got to give him that credit.“He’s beating people that he should not really be beating and he’s doing good man.”This story originally appeared on The Sun and has been reproduced here with permission.
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