Jimmy Kimmel facts: Age, Parents, wife, children and net worth—
Jimmy Kimmel is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer best known for being the host and executive producer of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’.
He started out as a radio jockey and appeared as the popular ‘Jimmy the Sports Guy’ in the Los Angles based radio show ‘The Kevin and Bean Show’.
Soon after, he bagged the Daytime Emmy Award for his sharp-edged humour as the co-host of the game show ‘Win Ben Stein’s Money’.
He reached the highpoint of his career and achieved great success in the field of late-night talk shows with his hit show ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
It soon became one of the longest running late night talk shows in the History of ABC network, breaking all records of other talk shows.
This established his status as one of the most popular and favourite personalities on American television. He is currently riding a wave of popularity and his new show ‘shock-talk’ has tapped quite a few audiences.
Jimmy Kimmel Age
Kimmel was born James Christian Kimmel on on November 13, 1967. He celebrated his 56th birthday in 2023.
Jimmy Kimmel Parents
He is the eldest of three children of Joan (Iacono) and James John Kimmel, who worked at American Express and was an IBM executive.
Kimmel’s mother is of Italian ancestry from Ischia, Naples and her family migrated to the United States after the 1883 earthquake. Two of his paternal great-great-grandparents were German immigrants.
His family’s surname was “Kümmel” (“caraway” in German) several generations back. According to a DNA test, Kimmel is also of partial Albanian descent.
The family moved to Las Vegas when he was nine years old. He graduated from Ed W. Clark High School and attended University of Nevada, Las Vegas for one year before transferring to Arizona State University. He received an honorary degree from UNLV in 2013.
Jimmy Kimmel Wife
Jimmy Kimmel’s wife is Molly McNearney. She is an American comedy writer and producer who has worked on Jimmy Kimmel Live! since 2006.
Jimmy and Molly met while working on the show and started dating in 2009. After about three years of dating, Kimmel asked McNearney to marry him while the pair were vacationing in South Africa’s Kruger National Park.
McNearney and Kimmel were married on July 13, 2013, in Ojai, California. Guests included stars such as Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Emily Blunt and Jennifer Aniston.
Jimmy Kimmel Children
Jimmy has two adult children, daughter Katie, 31, and son Kevin, 29, with his first wife, Gina Maddy, and two young children, daughter Jane, 8, and son Billy, 5, with his current wife, Molly McNearney.
Here are some facts about the comedian’s kids:
Katie Kimmel
She is Jimmy’s eldest daughter, born in 1991 to his first wife Gina Maddy. She is an artist and designer who sells her own home goods and artwork. She married Will Logsdon in 2021.
Jimmy was 24 years old when Katie was born and he was struggling financially. “I would work from 4 in the morning till around 11 in the morning, and at the time my ex-wife worked too,” he said in a 2017 interview with Vulture.
“So I’d pick Katie up from day care as quickly as I could, because we couldn’t afford the $5 an hour to keep her there longer. I’d have her all day till 6 or 6:30, when my ex-wife got home. That was a hard schedule. I was exhausted all the time.”
But Jimmy and Gina — who divorced in 2002 — did a great job at raising Katie. She went to college at The School of Art Institute of Chicago and now she has her own business selling her own home goods and artwork, which she promotes on Instagram.
In Sept. 2021, Katie married her longtime boyfriend Will Logsdon. Jimmy appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show before the wedding and talked so highly about his son-in-law. “I’ll tell you, the guy is great,” Jimmy said. “His name is Will and he’s a great guy. And if he wasn’t, he’d be dead right now. That’s how we operate in my family.”
Kevin Kimmel
He is Jimmy’s eldest son, born in 1993 to Gina Maddy. His parents got divorced when he was 10 years old, but he maintained close relationships with both of them as he continued to grow up.
Kevin frequently posts his famous father on his Instagram, where he’s very active. He’s even partially followed in Jimmy’s footsteps by pursuing a career in the entertainment industry. He worked in the sound department on several television shows including Survivor and Big Brother.
Kevin got married to his girlfriend Nicole at Jimmy’s fly fishing lodge in Idaho in September 2022. Kevin is always gushing over his wife in the sweetest Instagram posts. On Valentine’s Day 2023, Kevin snapped a pic of Nicole, and wrote, “Happy Valentine’s Day to the love of my life and the love of her life, a French lemon coconut cake @nicolekimmel.”
Jane Kimmel
She is Jimmy’s youngest daughter, born in 2014 to his second wife Molly McNearney. Jimmy revealed that Jane was named after his grandmother.
“It’s really great,” he told PEOPLE in 2015 about raising Jane. “It does add a little bit of joy to each day. Maybe more than a little bit
Before Jimmy had Jane, he admitted that he forgot what it was like raising babies, since Kevin and Katie were both born over 20 years earlier. “It’s funny because I was just with some friends who just had a baby. I was like, ‘Oh, ya.’ And there are new ways to do things,” he said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Billy Kimmel
He is Jimmy’s youngest son, born in 2017 to Molly McNearney. Billy was born with a congenital heart condition and had to undergo three heart surgeries.
Jimmy has been very open about Billy’s harrowing health struggle. “It’s a terrifying thing,” Jimmy said on the May 1, 2017 episode of his show.
“You know, my wife is back in the recovery room, she has no idea what’s going on, and I’m standing in the middle of a lot of worried-looking people – kind of like right now – who were trying to figure out what the problem is.” Jimmy also called Billy’s open-heart surgery at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles “the longest three hours of my life.”
Every year on Billy’s birthday, Jimmy expresses how grateful he is for the medical care that his son got in the hospital. When Billy turned 5, Jimmy wrote on Instagram,
“Happy 5th birthday to our little nut. We are eternally grateful to the brilliant doctors and nurses at @ChildrensLA & @CedarsSinai for saving Billy’s life and to those of you whose donations, prayers, and positive thoughts meant everything. Please support families who need medical care.”
Jimmy Kimmel Net Worth
Quick-witted, amusing and down to earth, Jimmy Kimmel is one of the wealthiest and most successful American talk show hosts With an estimated net worth of $50 million, he earns an aggregate of $15 million a year for his talk-show ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ alone.
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