Jimmy Kimmel Offers Well being Replace on Son Billy as ‘Millionaire’ Returns

Jimmy Kimmel is giving an replace on his son Billy’s health. 

The host just lately spoke with ET’s Kevin Frazier on the set of the revamped Who Needs to Be a Millionaire and supplied a heartfelt replace.

Kimmel balanced discussing his son’s current third open coronary heart surgical procedure surgical procedure with the joy surrounding the return of his common sport present. Reflecting on how he juggles his varied commitments, together with Millionaire, Jimmy Kimmel Stay!, and household life, Kimmel humorously remarked, “Yeah what I do, I simply minimize out all of the household time, I ignore my kids.”

He shortly clarified the truth of his busy schedule, noting, “I am going to see you at your highschool commencement. Yeah, no, the reality of the matter is despite the fact that it is an entire season of exhibits, we shoot it in a weekend so it isn’t that massive of a deal, I miss the weekend.”

Kimmel shared encouraging information about his son Billy, who underwent his third open-heart surgical procedure in Could. “Billy’s doing nice. He had open-heart surgical procedure; he is acquired the scars and all the pieces, however he is simply mentally proper again the place he was which is loopy. Bodily, , we’re gonna must watch out with him for a few months however he is doing rather well,” Kimmel stated.

Speaking in regards to the resilience of youngsters, Kimmel defined, “They’re fabricated from rubber, , all people says that children are so resilient and the docs truly defined it to me which I do not know why it by no means occurred to me earlier than as a result of they’re nonetheless rising.”

In Could, the Jimmy Kimmel Stay! host took to Instagram to share an image of his and spouse Molly McNearney’s son smiling massive within the hospital room, as he gave his followers an replace after his surgical procedure. 

“This weekend, our boy Billy had his third (of three, we hope) open coronary heart surgical procedure. We went into this expertise with lots of optimism and practically as a lot concern and got here out with a brand new valve inside a cheerful, wholesome child,” the proud dad wrote.

In 2017, Kimmel tearfully shared in a now-viral monologue that his son had been born with a coronary heart defect and underwent open-heart surgical procedure at three days outdated. Within the years since, Kimmel has echoed his gratitude to all these concerned in his medical care in each put up commemorating Billy’s birthday since he was born. 

On the set of Millionaire, Kimmel maintains consistency by carrying the identical swimsuit every evening to make sure easy enhancing. “You recognize I put on the identical factor each evening in order that once we edit the present, we boil all the pieces down, we put all people so as, it would not look totally different so I’ve like a uniform,” he defined.

Discussing the distinctive features of the present’s set, Kimmel described, “Effectively to start with we’re standing on a TV, an enormous spherical TV, which is form of loopy proper? … I do not assume that they had this to start with, , the primary season it was all… the entire set was fabricated from Lite-Brites. It took months to place collectively so now we have this TV and it may be just about something you need, and then you definitely acquired two sizzling seats as a result of this 12 months now we have not one however two movie star groups.”

Highlighting a few of the upcoming movie star appearances, Kimmel shared anecdotes about Zach Braff and Donald Faison. “They performed docs on TV, however then their phone-a-friend, who of their minds no less than is smarter than they’re, was the janitor on the present. So, present enterprise throws all of it out of whack—you might have the docs asking the janitor what they need to do,” Kimmel laughed.

Kimmel additionally talked about John Stamos and Dave Coulier’s participation, praising Coulier’s trivia abilities. “Coulier is aware of—he is a trivia man, he is aware of lots of stuff, he did lots of impersonations. Additionally, we heard lots of cartoon characters and lots of lifeless celebrities, however they had been good, they did fairly properly,” he stated.

Reflecting on the legacy of the present’s authentic host, Regis Philbin,. Kimmel expressed deep admiration. “Not solely was he the perfect of the perfect, we now simply consider ‘Who Needs to Be a Millionaire’ and we consider Regis, however no person was interested by Regis when this present went on the air. Regis wasn’t actually… he wasn’t a sport present host, he was, , loopy uncle Regis within the morning and it simply labored so properly,” Kimmel stated, paying tribute to the enduring tv character.

Philbin died in July 2022. He was 88 years outdated. He was the present’s first-ever host in 1999, and held the function till 2002. He additionally hosted three further particular occasion collection that aired on ABC in 2004 and 2009. All through the years, Meredith Vieira, Cedric the Entertainer, Terry Crews and Chris Harrison have served as hosts. 

The season premiere of Who Needs To Be A Millionaire airs Wednesday, July 10, at 8 p.m. on ABC.

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