Jimmy Kimmel knows that publicists have a difficult job when their clients become the center of a scandal after making public remarks.<\/p>\n
Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet recently received backlash<\/a> over his comments about ballet and opera<\/a>, and Kimmel took a swipe at it during his acceptance speech at the 2026 ICG Publicists Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n More from Deadline<\/p>\n The late-night talk show host took the stage at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Friday, March 13, to accept the President Awards honor and made a joke amid the fallout the Marty Supreme star is facing.<\/p>\n \u201cPublicists have a very difficult job, especially when your clients have strong opinions about opera and ballet,\u201d Kimmel joked.<\/p>\n The audience burst out in laughter at the quip, and Kimmel continued, \u201cRemember when they used to say, \u2018There\u2019s no such thing as bad publicity?\u2019 That was a lot of Kanye\u2019s and Diddy\u2019s ago.\u201d<\/p>\n In a CNN & Variety Town Hall, Chalamet said that \u201cno one cares about [opera or ballet] anymore,\u201d and the backlash was swift.<\/p>\n Chalamet\u2019s comments have prompted reactions from the ballet community, which included ballet dancer Misty Copeland, who was featured in a promo for Marty Supreme.<\/p>\n At an event for Aveeno, Copeland said, \u201cThere\u2019s a reason that the opera and ballet have been around for over 400 years.\u201d She also made a comment directly about Chalamet, saying, \u201c\u201dI mean, he wouldn\u2019t be an actor and have the opportunities he has as a movie star if it weren\u2019t for opera and ballet and their relevance in that medium. So all of these mediums have a space and we shouldn\u2019t be comparing them.\u201d<\/p>\n Best of Deadline<\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel knows that publicists have a difficult job when their clients become the center of a scandal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[22921,177107,177106,156,688,56403,175275,111,139,69,45005,437],"class_list":["post-329473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-acceptance-speech","tag-ballet-dancer","tag-beverly-wilshire-hotel","tag-entertainment","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-marty-supreme","tag-misty-copeland","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-timothee-chalamet","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}