Jimmy Kimmel‘s cousin has appeared to hint that there is more drama to come after Jimmy Kimmel Live! was pulled off the air indefinitely by ABC last week.

Sal Iacono, who is a long-time writer and performer on the show, spoke out about the future of the program where he also shed light on how Kimmel, 57, will fare.

Speaking on Sunday’s episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast, Iacono, 54, was reluctant to discuss the show’s future of respect for the staff whose jobs remain at risk – but he did imply that the dust has not yet settled.

‘I wish I could say anything,’ he said. ‘There are a couple bombshells still there.

‘I’m feeling good. We’re going to be all right. Everything’s going to be just fine.’

Turning his attention to how Kimmel will cope, Iacono continued: ‘He’ll be fine, whatever he wants to do.

‘Hey listen, he might just want to be a pop-up chef and start making barbecue around the South Bay area. He’ll do a great job.

‘That’s all I have to say right now. I can’t really say anything. You and I know too much. It’s very emotional.’

Putting an end to the discussion of the show’s future, he then said: ‘We both know too much.

‘Not only our cousin, but all the people working for the show, and, it’s better if we’re not talking about this in any way.’

The Kimmel controversy began last Monday night after he addressed Charlie Kirk’s assassination in his opening monologue and made comments about the suspected assassin, Tyler Robinson.

‘The MAGA gang are desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,’ he said.

‘In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.’

He then cut to a video of Donald Trump talking to reporters, where he answered a question about how he was handling Kirk’s death.

When asked how he was holding up, Trump responded: ‘I think very good,’ before directing the reporter’s attention to construction on the White House ballroom.

‘He’s at the fourth stage of grief: construction,’ Kimmel joked.

‘This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he calls a friend. This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish.’

Two days later, Carr threatened repercussions for Kimmel’s comments, and Sinclair and Nexstar pulled programming.

ABC and Disney announced they would be suspending the show indefinitely, prompting swift backlash from Hollywood and free speech defenders.

Kimmel’s late-night colleagues were chief among those defending him, with Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Jimmy Fallon, and Seth Meyers presenting a united front during their monologues after the news broke.

However, conservatives celebrated the suspension, with the president congratulating ABC on Truth Social for suspending Kimmel.

‘Kimmel has ZERO talent, and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that’s possible. That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!!’ he wrote.

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