{"id":249330,"date":"2025-10-29T19:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/249330\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T19:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:42:09","slug":"90-year-old-indian-superfan-shubha-bhowmik-charms-jimmy-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/249330\/","title":{"rendered":"90-Year-Old Indian Superfan Shubha Bhowmik Charms Jimmy Kimmel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India-West News Desk<\/p>\n<p>BROOKLYN, NY\u2013 Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel recently shared on social media a heartwarming and humorous moment with a long-time fan, Shubha Bhowmik, during a taping of Jimmy Kimmel Live! in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>Bhowmik, a 90-year-old woman dressed in a traditional sari, was introduced by Kimmel as a \u201cvery special guest\u201d seated in the front row. The host began the playful exchange by asking her age, which led to a lighthearted conversation that quickly turned emotional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatching you for the last 16 years\u2026 and I love you, what you do. I love you very much,\u201d Bhowmik told Kimmel, her voice filled with warmth.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel, who affectionately called her a \u201c90-year-old friend,\u201d thanked her before joking, \u201cYou say you\u2019ve been watching for 16 years. We\u2019ve been on for 22\u2026 took you a little while.\u201d She cheerfully replied, \u201cProud to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The touching moment, which aired on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on September 30 and was later shared on Kimmel\u2019s Instagram account, shows the host thanking Bhowmik, giving her a hug and a kiss, and posing for a photo. \u201cYou look great,\u201d he told her as the audience erupted in applause. The video quickly went viral, drawing praise from viewers who called the exchange \u201cthe sweetest thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bhowmik\u2019s daughter, musician and actress Shonali Bhowmik, also celebrated the moment on Instagram, calling it an \u201cunforgettable moment for my family.\u201d She wrote, \u201cMom\u2019s dreams came true tonight! Front row seats to @jimmykimmellive in Brooklyn, and her hero @jimmykimmel announced her as a special guest at the top of the show. She even got a hug and a kiss!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India-West News Desk BROOKLYN, NY\u2013 Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel recently shared on social media a heartwarming and humorous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,1973,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-249330","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-hollywood","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249330","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=249330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}