Jimmy Kimmel has introduced that comic Rosie O’Donnell will quickly take over his late-night present as he steps apart for a two-month sabbatical.
“I’ll take the following two months off, this time voluntarily,” Kimmel stated on Thursday night time’s episode, jokingly referring to the temporary interval his present was taken off the air by ABC following his feedback concerning Charlie Kirk’s loss of life in September.
However the present will go on as he named the “highly effective group of visitor hosts” that features Tiffany Haddish, Colman Domingo, Ike Barinholtz, Anthony Anderson and Jelly Roll.
“And… I requested one among our Commander-in-Chief’s all-time favorites, Rosie O’Donnell, to be right here to proceed the success story,” he shared, prompting a roar of applause from the viewers.
O’Donnell is among the many celebrities who left the states after Donald Trump’s second election victory. Along with his youngest baby, Clay, 13, they settled in Eire.
“The View” alum and Trump have lengthy had variations between them. Nonetheless, it seems their feud got here to a head in July 2025 when the president threatened to strip the actress of her US citizenship.
“Provided that Rosie O’Donnell isn’t in the most effective curiosity of our nice nation, I’m severely contemplating stripping her of her citizenship,” he wrote in his Fact Social article on the time.
He continued: “She is a menace to humanity and may keep within the fantastic nation of Eire, if they need her. GOD BLESS AMERICA.”
O’Donnell fired again at Trump with an equally impassioned Instagram submit.
“The President of the US has at all times hated the truth that I see him for who he’s – a prison conman, a sexually abusive liar who seeks to hurt our nation to serve himself – which is why I moved to Eire,” she captioned her submit.
Since his citizenship seems to stay intact, it seems O’Donnell will return to the US for an prolonged keep.
It would not be the primary time she made the journey residence. In February, she revealed that she had quietly returned to the US to go to household.
“I not too long ago went residence for 2 weeks and I did not actually inform anybody. I simply went to see my household,” the comic not too long ago advised Chris Cuomo throughout an look on “SiriusXM’s Cuomo Mornings.”
“I wished to see how troublesome it might be for me to enter and go away the nation,” she added. “I wished to really feel what I felt. I wished to carry my youngsters once more. And I hadn’t been residence in over a 12 months.”
She additionally appeared on “Watch What Occurs Reside,” filmed in New York, earlier this week.