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Why Jimmy Kimmel Turned Down the 2025 Oscars-Hosting Gig

Jimmy Kimmel is detailing why he won’t be hosting the 2025 Oscars.

The “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” talk-show host said during the “Politickin’” podcast, hosted by Gavin Newsom, Marshawn Lynch, and sports agent Doug Hendrickson, that pulling double duty with “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and the Academy Awards is “distracting” for his staff. In turn, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” actually “suffers a little bit,” according to Kimmel.

“I just decided I didn’t want to deal with that this year,” Kimmel said of turning down hosting the 2025 Academy Awards. “It was just too much last year. You wind up pushing everything off ’til after the Oscars, and then you have to do everything you promised to do after the Oscars, after the Oscars.”

Kimmel has hosted the…


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