Full disclosure: I like Jimmy Kimmel. I have ever since he was co-hosting The Man Show with Adam Curolla. The two of them came to Toronto back when I was starting out at The Toronto Sun and shenanigans ensued. It has been a pleasure watching him grow in stature since those dumb early days and
Here is a shocker: despite Donald Trump’s gleeful tweet last Wednesday, it appears that Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t fired by ABC after all. The Disney-owned broadcast network issued a statement Tuesday announcing that, after a suspension designed as a cooling off period, and conversations with Kimmel and others involved, the host on the hot seat was
Here’s my reaction Monday on CTV News Network to the news that Jimmy Kimmel will be back on ABC Tuesday night, This happened so fast I didn’t even have time to cancel my Disney+ subscription! A lot of other people did, however, including Howard Stern. Many others turned up the heat, including John Oliver and
At the tender age of 22, Dini Petty broke ground with Toronto radio station CKEY as Canada’s first female traffic reporter to fly solo in a helicopter. After 5,000 hours in the air she landed her pink chopper and went on to a stellar career as a news anchor at Citytv and as a talk
I welcomed the opportunity to stand up for Jimmy Kimmel Thursday morning on CTV News Channel. Trump’s lazy, day after spin that Kimmel was fired for lack of talent is MAGA nonsense. This also has zero to do with comments about Charlie Kirk. This all about Kimmel piercing orange baby skin by pointing out that
I watched Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue Monday night and thought, hoo boy. This is not going to end well. Glad he and wife and producer Molly McNearney got to dress up and enjoy The Emmys at least. But I was not surprised when Kimmel was suspended today, Wednesday, by ABC. With America ripped even further apart
Did you know that Canada once had a golf course where you tee’d off in Saskatchewan and holed out on the 9th green in the United States — and in a different time zone? These and other bizzare anecdotes about Canada (A pet cemetary in Aurora, Ont.?) can be seen this Sunday starting at 7
“Memories,” the tune from “The Way We Were,” probably came back to many fans of Robert Redford on news of his passing. An Oscar winner as a director (1980’s “Ordinary People”), Redford passed away in his sleep September 16 at his home in Provo, Utah. He was 89. Redford, of course, is best remembered for