{"id":110710,"date":"2025-10-29T17:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T17:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/110710\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T17:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T17:43:07","slug":"us-talk-show-host-jimmy-kimmel-visits-ireland-to-explore-irish-ancestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/110710\/","title":{"rendered":"US talk show host Jimmy Kimmel visits Ireland to explore Irish ancestry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the people of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayonews.ie\/news\/local-news\/1930796\/us-tv-host-jimmy-kimmel-visits-mayo-to-explore-irish-ancestry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Mayo<\/a> may have seen a famous face from America&#8217;s television screens walking among them, as late-night talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel visited the county.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Kimmel, one of the longest-serving and most recognizable faces of television in the United States, made the revelations on the most recent episode of &#8216;Jimmy Kimmel Live!&#8217; on ABC.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireland-live.ie\/news\/weather\/1930762\/met-eireann-issues-weather-warnings-for-more-counties-as-torrential-rain-expected.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Met \u00c9ireann issues weather warnings for more counties as torrential rain expected<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jimmy and many members of his family, including his five-month-old granddaughter, came to the Emerald Isle to explore family roots and Irish ancestry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got to see the house where my Dad&#8217;s great-grandparents were born in County Mayo,&#8221; he stated. &#8220;We had a lot of family there; we found them on ancestry.com.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The well-known TV presenter was full of compliments for the hospitality he received while touching down on this side of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything they say about the Irish people is true. We had not one bad experience with anyone. My niece left her purse at a pub.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A woman she&#8217;d never met before figured out where she was staying and drove it to our hotel and refused to accept money for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She didn&#8217;t know we have more of a hostage-type situation when we find a purse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireland-live.ie\/news\/national-news\/1930803\/search-stood-down-for-missing-28-year-old-man-amid-heartbreaking-garda-update.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Search stood down for missing 28-year-old man amid heartbreaking Garda update<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kimmel also had plenty of quips when it came to discussing the Irish Presidential Election between Catherine Connolly and Heather Humphries, which occurred during his time in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the clip of the show, which regularly broadcasts to 1.77 million viewers, here:<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, the people of Mayo may have seen a famous face from America&#8217;s television screens walking among&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[921,61,60,8764,43,282],"class_list":["post-110710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-celebrity","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mayo","tag-news","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}