The hosts of The View finally addressed Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension on Monday.
“Did you really think we weren’t going to talk about Jimmy Kimmel?” Whoopi Goldberg said to open the show. “I mean have you watched the show over the last 29 seasons?”
Her comments came after a fan outcry over the ABC show’s perceived silence on the debacle.
“No one silences us... We’re still here, we’re still broadcasting, and when the news broke last week about Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, we took a breath to see if Jimmy was going to say anything about it first,” she said, pointing out they the hosts did “the same thing with Stephen Colbert.”
Kimmel has yet to address his show’s indefinite suspension over his comments about assassinated conservative figure Charlie Kirk on Tuesday.
“We hit some new lows ov