Did Jimmy Kimmel kick Clint Eastwood off his show in April 2025? No, that's not true: Searches across the website of ABC, which airs the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show, demonstrated that Eastwood was not a guest between January 1, and April 18, 2025. Posts about the purported controversy used what appeared to be AI-generated narration and offered no footage of the purported "clash".
The claim appeared in a video published on YouTube on April 17, 2025, under the caption:
Clint Eastwood Kicked Off Jimmy Kimmel's Show After Heated Clash! | Live Show.
This is what the it looked like on YouTube at the time of writing:
(Source: YouTube screenshot by Lead Stories)
However, the video featured no footage of the supposed "heated clash." Instead, it displayed a still image of two male figures who did not resemble Kimmel or Eastwood. A mechanical-sounding voiceover described the fictional incident, but did not include any authentic audio exchanges from the supposed show.
Yet, the claim spread through other videos on YouTube -- for example, here and here.
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