Jimmy Kimmel Tests Positive for COVID-19

The world may not have to deal with COVID-19 as it did two years ago. The doesn’t mean the virus has completely gone. People are continuing to catch coronavirus that has killed millions around the world. Now we have another sad case to report as a beloved late night host tested positive.

Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is the latest celebrity to contract COVID-19. Kimmel, who is 54, took to social media Monday, May 2nd, to announce that he’s diagnosed with the virus.

Our daughter brought us COVID (even though we specifically asked her not to). I am double vaxxed and boosted but the show must not go on. Apologies to @TomCruise & @iliza and thanks to Mike Birbiglia @birbigs who’ll be filling in for me starting tomorrow night.

After Kimmel’s announcement, Mike Birbiglia joked about how he learned he’d be substituting for Kimmel. He also sent his best wishes to the late-night talk show host.

I must be the first person to ever deplane a Southwest Airlines flight and find out they’re guest-hosting a late night talk show. Sending love to the Kimmels. See you on the TV tomorrow, friends.

Kimmel is the latest late night host to test positive for COVID-19. Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon and James Corden have all tested positive over the past few months.

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