{"id":243889,"date":"2025-11-04T19:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243889\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T19:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:36:09","slug":"erika-kirk-tells-jesse-watters-what-she-would-say-to-jimmy-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243889\/","title":{"rendered":"Erika Kirk Tells Jesse Watters What She Would Say to Jimmy Kimmel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Erika Kirk<br \/>\n                          If Jimmy Kimmel Wants to Apologize &#8230;<br \/>\n                          &#8216;Go Right Ahead&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Published November 4, 2025 9:41 AM PST<br \/>\n                                                                      |<br \/>\n                Updated November 4, 2025 10:13 AM PST\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/28c32f407c55441ab8e566650421b7b8_md.jpg\" alt=\"110425_erika_kirk_kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    FOX News<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/erika-kirk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erika Kirk<\/a> hasn&#8217;t said much about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/jimmy-kimmel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> mentioning her husband <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/charlie-kirk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Kirk<\/a>&#8216;s killer on his late-night show &#8230; but in a new interview, she told Fox News&#8217; Jesse Watters what she would say to the comedian.<\/p>\n<p>As controversial as Jimmy&#8217;s comments were &#8212; they led to a brief shutdown of the funnyman&#8217;s late-night TV show and a huge critical backlash &#8212; Erika apparently never considered it a major issue for her.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250926_552427422f654e02b7c10eebd38537f5\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:d6bf60b6-aa1f-4065-ab0d-01a0519fbc50\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/552427422f654e02b7c10eebd38537f5_md.jpg\" alt=\"erika kirk getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>She said, &#8220;If you want to say &#8216;I&#8217;m sorry&#8217; to someone who&#8217;s grieving, go right ahead. But if that&#8217;s not in your heart, don&#8217;t do it. I don&#8217;t want it. I don&#8217;t need it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to Erika, Sinclair Broadcast Group &#8212; the company that owns and operates nearly 40 ABC affiliate stations &#8212; reached out to her asking what they could do to &#8220;make it right&#8221; after Kimmel&#8217;s infamous monologue.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250913_c2b83161c9534f42a6eb2e0992c910db\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:d6bf60b6-aa1f-4065-ab0d-01a0519fbc50\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/c2b83161c9534f42a6eb2e0992c910db_md.jpg\" alt=\"Erika Lane Frantzve kirk charlie kirk sub getty swipe\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Erika says she politely declined an offer to be on the show or seek out an apology, telling her team, &#8220;This is not our issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As you know &#8230; Jimmy was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/09\/17\/abc-suspends-jimmy-kimmel-over-charlie-kirk-comments\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">temporarily suspended<\/a> from his ABC talk show, &#8220;Jimmy Kimmel Live!&#8221; back in September after he went on air and said &#8230; &#8220;We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/d93a360ac8c54cab8a68c7f031f7536b_md.jpg\" alt=\"jimmy-kimmel-kal-09-23-2025\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><br \/>\n                      9\/23\/25<\/p>\n<p>                    ABC<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy and the show returned to the air 6 days later.<\/p>\n<p>Erika&#8217;s full interview will air Wednesday on &#8220;Jesse Watters Primetime.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erika Kirk If Jimmy Kimmel Wants to Apologize &#8230; &#8216;Go Right Ahead&#8217; Published November 4, 2025 9:41 AM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-243889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}