Rosie O’Donnell will be featured as a guest host for Jimmy Kimmel’s show as the late-night host steps away for a few months.
“I asked one of our commander-in-chief’s all-time favorites, Rosie O’Donnell, to be here to keep the hits coming,” Kimmel said, according to Page Six.
O’Donnell’s selection carries a political edge because of her long-running feud with President Donald Trump. The former “View” co-host left the United States after Trump won a second term, moving to Ireland with her youngest child, Clay, who claims to be nonbinary.
In March, O’Donnell said she was officially living in Ireland and described the move as the safest and best decision for her family.
“I was never someone who thought I would move to another country,” O’Donnell said in a TikTok video. “You know, I’m happy. Clay is happy. I miss my other kids. I miss my friends. I miss many things about life there at home and I’m trying to find a home here in this beautiful country and when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that’s when we will consider coming back.”
Her feud with Trump escalated in July 2025, when the president said he was considering taking away her U.S. citizenship.
“Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” Trump wrote on Truth Social at the time, according to Page Six. “She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA.”
O’Donnell responded in an Instagram post by saying Trump had “always hated” that she saw him as “a criminal con man sexual abusing liar out to harm our nation to serve himself.”
O’Donnell has since returned to the U.S. for visits, including a quiet two-week trip to see family and a recent appearance on “Watch What Happens Live,” which films in New York City.
Now, she is set to return to late-night as one of Kimmel’s guest hosts.
Kimmel announced Thursday that he will take the next two months off from his late-night show, joking that he is doing so “this time voluntarily,” per Page Six. The remark appeared to reference the brief period ABC pulled his show over comments he made pertaining to Charlie Kirk’s death in September.
The show will continue with a rotation of guest hosts, including Tiffany Haddish, Colman Domingo, Ike Barinholtz, Anthony Anderson, Jelly Roll and Rosie O’Donnell.
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