Jimmy Kimmel announced that comedian Rosie O’Donnell will temporarily take over his late-night show as he steps down for a two-month sabbatical.
“I’m taking the next two months off, this time voluntarily,” Kimmel continued Thursday night’s episodejokingly referring to the short run his show was drawn by ABC over his comments regarding the death of Charlie Kirk in September.
But the show will still go on, as he named the “potent group of” guest hosts, which include Tiffany Haddish, Colman Domingo, Ike Barinholtz, Anthony Anderson and Jelly Roll.
“And… I asked one of our Commander-in-Chief’s all-time favorites, Rosie O’Donnell, to be here to keep the hits coming,” he shared, prompting a roar of applause from the crowd.
O’Donnell is one of several celebrities who left the states after Donald Trump’s second election victory. Together with her youngest child, Clay, 13, they settled in Ireland.
“The View” alum and Trump have long had beef with each other. However, it seems that their feud reached its peak in July 2025 when the President threatened to strip the actress of her US citizenship.
“Due to the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interest of our great country, I am seriously considering revoking her citizenship,” he wrote in his Truth Social post at the time.
He continued: “She is a menace to humanity and should stay in the wonderful country of Ireland if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA.”
O’Donnell hit back at Trump with an equally heated Instagram post.
“The President of the United States has always hated the fact that I see him for what he is – a criminal fraud who sexually abuses a liar to harm our nation to serve himself – that’s why I moved to Ireland,” she captioned her post.
With her citizenship appearing to remain intact, it appears that O’Donnell will return to the United States for an extended stay.
It wouldn’t be the first time she made the trip home. In February, she revealed that she quietly returned to the United States to visit his family.
“I recently went home for two weeks and I didn’t really tell anybody. I just went to see my family,” comedian Chris Cuomo recently told during an appearance on “SiriusXM’s Cuomo Mornings.”
“I wanted to see how difficult it would be for me to get in and out of the country,” she added. “I wanted to feel what it felt like. I wanted to hold my kids again. And I hadn’t been home in over a year.”
She too appeared on “Watch What Happens Live”, which movies in New York City, earlier this week.
