{"id":122629,"date":"2025-09-06T07:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T07:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122629\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T07:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T07:22:07","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-moving-to-italy-late-night-host-shuts-down-maga-rumours-jokes-about-moving-into-mar-a-lago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122629\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Jimmy Kimmel moving to Italy\u2019: Late-night host shuts down MAGA rumours; jokes about moving into Mar-a-Lago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/untitled-design-2025-09-06t080544182.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Jimmy Kimmel moving to Italy\u2019: Late-night host shuts down MAGA rumours; jokes about moving into Mar-a-Lago\" title=\"Jimmy Kimmel (AP file photo)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Jimmy Kimmel (AP file photo) US late-night host <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/jimmy-kimmel\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> on Tuesday dismissed speculation that he was leaving the country. The comedian clarified that despite recently gaining Italian citizenship, he had \u201cno intention\u201d of moving abroad.Kimmel, during his summer break, had appeared on the Sarah Silverman Podcast and mentioned that he had obtained Italian citizenship. Conservative outlets and Trump supporters claimed this meant he was planning to leave the US. Kimmel returned directly addressed those rumours on his show, saying, \u201cI\u2019m not moving to Italy. I never said that. This is where I live. This is my country. I\u2019m not running away from it, especially because of Donald Trump,\u201d he said. He joked that if given a choice, he would move into Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago resort \u201cjust to drive him insane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Kimmel on Trump\u2019s Crazy Summer, Rumors That He Died &amp; Colbert\u2019s Cancellation<\/p>\n<p> Kimmel clarified that his Italian citizenship was unrelated to politics. He said he had been trying to get it for nearly 20 years because of his love for Italy. \u201cMostly what I like to do is bring my passport to parties and show it to people and make them jealous,\u201d he said with humour. The comedian has often criticised Trump in his monologues. In April, he mocked Trump\u2019s first 100 days in office, saying they were more \u201cprehistoric\u201d than historic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel (AP file photo) US late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday dismissed speculation that he was leaving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,50303,4625,59932,86342,86343,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-122629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-italian-citizenship","12":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","13":"tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","14":"tag-moving-to-italy","15":"tag-trump-supporters","16":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}