Jimmy Kimmel was overcome with emotion as he addressed the Los Angeles wildfires.
THE Jimmy Kimmel Live! The host, 57, returned to his late-night slot on ABC on Monday, January 13, and opened the show with an emotional monologue about the fires, which started earlier this month and continue to burn, decimating homes and displacing thousands of people.
“It’s been a very scary, very stressful and very strange week here in Los Angeles, where we work, where we live, where our kids go to school,” Kimmel said. “We are back in our studio that we had to evacuate.”
“That’s our building right there, El Capitan,” he said, showing footage of a fire near the studio where the show is taped. “That’s how close this fire was to our theater here. Many of us had to rush out of our homes. Some of our colleagues lost their homes. It was terrible.
As wildfires continue to spread across the Los Angeles area, several celebrities are taking to social media to share their aftermath. “Evacuated and safe with children, dogs and cats. I am praying and grateful to the first responders,” Mandy Moore wrote in an Instagram Story statement on Wednesday, January 8. In a follow-up article, she […]
Kimmel continued: “Everyone who lives in this city knows someone – most of us, several people – families, friends, co-workers, neighbors, whose homes burned. And the truth is, we don’t even know if it’s over.
Although the fires continue to ravage Los Angeles, the comedian said he was heartened to see so many people coming together during the tragedy.
“I think I speak for all of us when I say this has been a sickening, shocking and horrible experience. But it has also been, in many ways, a beautiful experience because once again we see our fellow men and women coming together to support each other,” he said. “People who lost their own homes were volunteering in parking lots to help those who had lost theirs. »
Kimmel noted that his Jimmy Kimmel Live! acolyte, Guillermo Rodriguez“almost came to live with me” because he risked being evicted from his home.
Los Angeles witnessed a frightening natural weather event and its celebrity community was heavily affected. An extreme windstorm, driven by gusts from Santa Ana, ignited rapid brush fires around 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, with drivers along Sunset Boulevard and Palisades Drive abandoning their cars to run to safety , according to the […]
The late-night show host said in total, nearly 20 people were staying with him to shelter from the fires. (Kimmel and his wife Molly McNearney have two children, Jane, 10, and Billy, 7. He also shares two adult children, Katie33, and Kevin31 years old, with his ex-wife Gina Maddy.)
“We had 19 people living with us and four dogs. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever experienced,” Kimmel said. “It’s so strange to look around and decide what you want to take, and then fight with your kids over what they want to take. We had to leave behind a lot of stuffed animals.
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