When Jimmy Kimmel announced that Rosie O’Donnell would be filling in as a week-long guest host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” during his summer vacation, he teased it would be “a special treat” for Donald Trump, who’s harbored a 20-year-long vendetta against the comic for her mocking his bankruptcies on “The View” back in 2006.
\n\nO’Donnell told Variety she was “surprised” by the guest-hosting offer from Kimmel, given the pair’s “adversarial relationship” and the fact that she’d never even been asked on as a guest, but she was “thankful” and accepted nevertheless, owing in large part to her support of Kimmel during Trump’s relentless campaign to get his late-night show canceled over jokes he didn’t like.
\n\n“I support [Kimmel] in what he’s doing with the First Amendment, and our ability as entertainers and citizens to speak out against our government that’s enshrined in the Founding Fathers’ writings about our government, so I think he’s fantastic,” O’Donnell said. “And I wish that Stephen Colbert had the same kind of support when it happened to him, because he shouldn’t be gone either.”
\n\nOn Monday night, O’Donnell kicked off her “Jimmy Kimmel Live” hosting duties by strutting out onstage in a bright pink suit…
Original source: https://variety.com/
