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Acclaimed talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has revealed he contemplated turning his back on his beloved talk show after 20 years on ABC.
The 55-year-old made this surprising admission on the Strike Force Five podcast, a roundtable of late-night hosts that launched Wednesday on Spotify.
Kimmel was joined by Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver when he revealed the start of Writers Guild of America (WGA) strikes in May changed his mind.
He asked the hosts: “Are you guys getting stir-crazy? Are you ready to go back to work?
“Because as you know, I was very intent on retiring right around the time where the strike started, and now I realize, like, ‘Oh yeah, it’s kind of nice to work.’
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Kimmel added: “’You know when you are working, you think about not working.”
To which an uncertain Meyers hit back: “Kimmel, come on, you are the Tom Brady of late night… You have feigned retirement.
“Are we to take you at your word, that you were seriously considering this?”
The star assured them: “I was serious, I was very, very serious,” as he admitted he had taken summers off, and had privately told other late-night peers about his plans.
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Kimmel’s retirement confessions came less than a year after his chat show, Jimmy Kimmel Live was renewed for another three seasons.
He confirmed the renewal with a statement and quipped: “After two decades at ABC, I am now looking forward to three years of what they call ‘quiet quitting.’”
A number of talk shows have gone dark after the writers took industrial action against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) over work security.
In support of the strikers, the host revealed all profits from the podcast will go to their respective staffs.
Kimmel confirmed: “The reason we’re doing this is because we are financially supporting members of our staffs. There are hundreds of members of our staffs – writers, you name it.
“Everyone that works on a TV show is out of work right now, and so all the money we make for this show goes to them.”
Detailing the reason for their podcast, he continued: “The last time there was a writers’ strike, there wasn’t a lot of communication between the late-night hosts.
“And as a result, there was a lot of nonsense that went on, so Stephen suggested we get together and we talk through our issues and whatever we’re dealing with,” Kimmel concluded.
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