Rosie O'Donnell Makes Talk Show Return as 'Kimmel' Guest Host
Rosie O'Donnell returns to late-night TV and says Trump’s pressure campaign has already cost Stephen Colbert his show.
- On Monday, comedian Rosie O'Donnell began a week-long guest-hosting stint on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" while host Jimmy Kimmel takes his voluntary summer vacation.
- Kimmel, who has a two-decade-long feud with Trump, tapped O'Donnell as "a special treat" for the president, though she described the offer as coming "out of the blue."
- After reaching out to Kimmel following the death of his uncle, Frank Potenza, a former NYPD officer, O'Donnell said she supports Kimmel's advocacy for the First Amendment amid political pressure on late-night comedy.
- During Monday's monologue, O'Donnell avoided mentioning Trump, instead criticizing David Ellison's pending $111 billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery and its impact on media independence.
- Trump's continued fixation on O'Donnell has helped her become "refamous" at 64, as she jokingly described it, while she performs her off-Broadway one-woman show, "Common Knowledge," this summer.
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Rosie O'Donnell 'surprised' by being tapped to guest host for Kimmel, but eager for anti-Trump platform
Rosie O'Donnell was surprised at being tapped to guest-host "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" after her past adversarial relationship with Kimmel, but shares his hostility to President Donald Trump.
Jimmy Kimmel's latenight show is one of such a thorn in the U.S. government's eye that it has been deposed before. Donald Trump may not like who moderates the summer edition of the show - the woman he wanted to deny citizenship.
Rosie O'Donnell Claims 'Mango Mussolini' Forced Her to Flee to Ireland
Rosie O'Donnell Claims 'Mango Mussolini' Forced Her to Flee to Ireland Rosie O’Donnell kicked off her week of guest hosting ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! with, even by her standards, a tremendous amount of self-unawareness. In the lead-up to Monday’s show, O’Donnell was clearly relishing in the opportunity to make fun of President Trump, but in her monologue, she claimed that “Mango Mussolini” forced her to flee to Ireland because Trump “hates” her.O…
Rosie O’Donnell Spends ‘Kimmel Live’ Debut Obsessing Over ‘Mango Mussolini’ Trump, Her 'Nonbinary' Daughter
Rosie O'Donnell's much-hyped appearance as fill-in host on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" saw "The View" alum obsessing over President Donald Trump, the country of Ireland, which she self-deported to over Trump's election, and her autistic 11-year-old daughter whose pronounces are "they/them."
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