Late-night show host Jimmy Kimmel, one of several who have been extremely critical of former President Donald Trump and his supporters, suggested in an interview published this week that he may soon be ending it.
“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,” Kimmel told the Los Angeles Times.
Kimmel has hosted his show on ABC since 2003. He also said he’s taking a lot of time to prepare to host the Oscars later this year. In addition, he also hinted that he has been considering retiring.
“It’s hard to yearn for it when you’re doing it,” the Jimmy Kimmel Live host told the LA Times. “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,’” he added.
When asked if he planned to do something else if he didn’t renew his contract, Kimmel, 56, said he wasn’t sure. “It might not be anything that anyone other than me is aware of,” he told the Times, noting that he has several hobbies he could focus on instead.
“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,” he said.
