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Jimmy Kimmel has shared why he lately turned down a request for him to host the Academy Awards subsequent 12 months for a fifth time.
Throughout a dialog with California Governor Gavin Newsom, former NFL participant Marshawn Lynch, and NFL agent Doug Hendrickson on their “Politickin’” podcast, Kimmel acknowledged that it’s a troublesome stability to host each the Oscars and his late-night present.
“It’s onerous and it’s quite a lot of work and the present suffers somewhat bit to be sincere,” he defined, referencing “Jimmy Kimmel Dwell.”
“Once I’m targeted on the Oscars, I’m much less targeted on the present,” Kimmel continued. “And I simply determined I didn’t need to cope with that this 12 months. It was simply an excessive amount of final 12 months.”
Kimmel hosted the Academy Awards in 2017, 2018, 2023 and 2024.
“You wind up pushing all the things off until after the Oscars, after which it’s a must to do all the things you promised to do after the Oscars, after the Oscars,” Kimmel mentioned of the gig.
“I’m not good at balancing. I’m actually not. It’s not considered one of my strengths,” he mentioned. “I’m all in in terms of one thing just like the Oscars. I give it some thought within the morning and at night time, and when I’ve concepts I need to work on them, after which my nightly present looks like a nuisance.”
Kimmel mentioned his late-night writers additionally work with him on the Oscars and “it distracts them.”
“It’s enjoyable to do, and it feels good when it went nicely, however, for me, simply was an excessive amount of to do it three years in a row.” he mentioned.
The 97th Academy Awards can be held on March 2, 2025, and a bunch has not but been introduced. Comic John Mulaney additionally reportedly handed on the gig.
Kimmel mirrored that the job is time consuming “and quite a lot of the individuals who you assume, ‘That individual can be nice’… they know they’d be nice. They only don’t need to do it.”
“They are saying it’s a thankless job,” Kimmel mentioned of internet hosting Hollywood’s greatest night time. “I wouldn’t essentially describe it like that, as a result of when it goes nicely, it isn’t, but it surely’s a troublesome spot to be in.”
The nominees for the Oscars will be announced on January 17, 2025.