What Is Jimmy Kimmel’s Net Worth?
One day after the shocking announcement that Jimmy Kimmel‘s long-running late-night TV show was being pulled off the air indefinitely, a renewed conversation and debate erupted about free speech and censorship in America at this time.
On Sept. 17, ABC announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live! will be “preempted indefinitely” after Nexstar, which operates 32 ABC affiliates, said it would not broadcast the show for the “foreseeable future.” The decision was reportedly in response to comments Kimmel made earlier in the week about the person accused of fatally shooting Charlie Kirk.
Fans have a few questions now about Kimmel, who has been on the air for more than two decades and welcomed thousands of guests including Donald Trump himself.
Here’s more on Kimmel, including how old he is and what his net worth is.
Kimmel’s age and current net worth
James Christian Kimmel was born on Nov. 13, 1967, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. His family moved to Las Vegas when he was 9 years old. Kimmel graduated from Ed W. Clark High School before attending UNLV for one year. He then transferred to Arizona State University.
Kimmel got his start in the business hosting radio shows in high school and throughout college. In the early ’90s, he worked for KROQ-FM in Los Angeles and spent five years as “Jimmy the Sports Guy” on the Kevin and Bean morning show.
Kimmel began working for Comedy Central in 1997. He left his full-time gig on The Man Show to host his late-night talk show in 2003. His annual salary for Jimmy Kimmel Live! was $15 million.
Kimmel also hosted multiple awards shows and game shows, including Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? In addition, he has a production company called Kimmelot and serves as the executive producer for the reality show Love Thy Nader, featuring model Brooks Nader and her three sisters.
Today, he has an estimated net worth of $50 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
Donald Trump celebrated the news about Kimmel and called out two more late-night hosts
Even though he was in the U.K. on his second state visit, Donald Trump was apparently keeping a close eye on all kinds of news at home and took to his Truth Social platform to celebrate Kimmel’s show being taken off the air.
“Great News for America,” the president began, adding, “The ratings-challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done. Kimmel has ZERO talent, and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that’s possible. That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!!”
Trump is referring to two other popular late-night hosts, Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers, leaving uncertainty to the future of those programs and prompting another U.S. president to enter that chat.
The 44th POTUS, Barack Obama, wrote on his X account: “After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
“This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.”
