Radar’s Jimmy Kimmel exclusives are laughable
5:24 pm, October 15th, 2009
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The headline of Radar‘s story today, “Exclusive: Jimmy Kimmel Stole New Girlfriend From Show Staffer” is not only 100 percent inaccurate, but the website knows it, too. (We’ll get to that in a second.)
First, Radar reports, “The late-night host started romancing his new girlfriend [Molly McNearney], who is one of his employees, after getting rid of her boyfriend, who also worked on Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
Uh, Jimmy Kimmel did NOT get “rid” of McNearney’s boyfriend. The one-time writer’s assistant left Kimmel in 2006 for a full writer’s position at Carson Daly. And Kimmel only began dating McNearney after she and her boyfriend had split up. In fact, though unfairly portraying Kimmel as a predator, the site acknowledges that McNearney and her ex-boyfriend “decided to call it quits this past summer allowing Kimmel to seriously pursue” her.
Repeat: Kimmel did not get “rid” of McNearney’s ex, so he could date her. They had already broken up, and the ex-boyfriend left the show a few years before for a bigger job.
Radar is also off when it claims that Kimmel’s dating McNearney, the show’s co-head writer, has caused staffers to now become “extremely upset, worried about favoritism and one even blamed being fired on the situation.” Gossip Cop investigated, and no one has been fired from the show in more than a year, and Kimmel and McNearney have only been together for a few months. Additionally, it’s odd that employees would suddenly now be “upset,” considering Kimmel and McNearney have been dating for months – and the staff knew it – only it hadn’t been publicly announced until a few days ago.
Previously, Radar inaccurately reported that Kimmel and McNearney began hooking up while the host was still with longtime girlfriend Sarah Silverman, but that is also absolutely untrue, say sources familiar with the parties involved.
When asked about Radar’s allegations, Kimmel’s rep told Gossip Cop: “We will not even dignify this ludicrous report with any sort of comment.” And while the late night comic’s rep wouldn’t comment – at least we asked. Radar did not even seek a comment from Kimmel’s side.
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