Jimmy Kimmel and Molly McNearney have been colleagues for six years on Jimmy Kimmel Reside! earlier than their relationship developed into one thing extra.
McNearney, who started relationship Kimmel in 2009, defined how their office friendship transitioned right into a romance. “All of the writers would socialize after the present, and we'd simply hang around increasingly. We actually preferred one another as buddies, after which it simply sort of turned. He cooked for me, and that was it. It sealed the deal,” she advised Glamour in 2014.
The pair bought engaged whereas on a safari in Africa in 2012 and exchanged vows in Ojai, California, in 2013. (Kimmel beforehand wed Gina Maddy in 1988 however the couple bought divorced in 2002. They share daughter Katherine and son Kevin, whom they welcomed in 1991 and 1993, respectively.)
The late evening host expanded his household when he and McNearney welcomed daughter Jane in July 2014, and son Billy arrived in April 2017.
Scroll by way of for a timeline of their relationship:
2003
McNearney joined the discuss present's workforce as an assistant to the chief producer — and didn't have the perfect preliminary interplay along with her future husband. (She's since risen the ranks to co-head author and govt producer of Jimmy Kimmel Reside!)
“Once I first met him, he insulted me,” McNearney recalled to Glamour. “The manager producer introduced me into his workplace and stated, ‘That is Molly; she's my new assistant.' Jimmy barely seemed up from his desk till my EP stated, ‘She competes in triathlons,' after which Jimmy seemed up at me and stated, ‘That's actually silly! What a waste of time.'”
She defined that Kimmel proceeded to win her over with meals, saying, “He cooked for me, and that was it. It sealed the deal.”
August 2012
After practically a decade collectively, Kimmel popped the query whereas on a safari in Africa.
July 2013
The pair tied the knot on the Ojai Valley Inn in entrance of a number of of their A-list buddies, together with Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon and Ellen DeGeneres.
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February 2014
Kimmel revealed his spouse was pregnant throughout an look on The Ellen DeGeneres Present, saying, “It's humorous, as a result of I used to be simply with some buddies who had a child. I used to be like, ‘Oh, yeah.' There's new methods to do issues.”
Whereas joking about child information, he quipped, “Karate or The Riddler are the names we're considering of proper now…And I would really like the child's center identify to be Effin. And never the curse model of it, like e-f-f-i-n. Like Ellen Effin DeGeneres. I imply, what a terrific identify, proper?”
July 2014
Kimmel celebrated the arrival of daughter Jane in a candy publish through X, writing, “Congratulations to my stunning and really robust spouse @mollymcnearney on delivering our child woman this morning. Thanks for all of your form child needs—seems, not ALL tweets are imply!”
McNearney, for her half, wrote, “Youngsters, don't do medicine. Till you might have a child. Then do ALL OF THEM.”
A rep for Kimmel additionally confirmed the child information to Us Weekly, saying that McNearney was “doing nice.”
April 2017
Kimmel and McNearney welcomed son Invoice, who underwent a number of surgical procedures for congenital coronary heart defects after his start. Kimmel revealed the information throughout a monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Reside!, and McNearney later shared that she wasn't ready for a way emotional it could be.
“So, there I'm, in my front room breastfeeding Billy with my mother beside me, and we're watching,” McNearney advised The Hollywood Reporter in December 2017. “I sobbed by way of the complete factor. I couldn't consider the power that it took to inform that story per week after it occurred. He didn't have to do this.”
She continued, “Our household has wonderful well being care; he had nothing to achieve from that. He did it for the opposite folks whom we met in that hospital. He got here house that evening, and I simply hugged him and I wouldn't let go.”
In February 2018, DeGeneres stunned Kimmel when she revealed that the Kids's Hospital of Los Angeles had named a room on its Coronary heart Institute ground after Billy. “Wow,” Kimmel stated as he wiped tears from his eyes and planted a kiss on DeGeneres' cheek.
September 2018
Kimmel joked throughout an episode of his late evening present that McNearney has extra love for Beyoncé than she does for him.
“My spouse loves Beyoncé,” he stated. “I'd say she loves Beyoncé greater than she loves me, however that'd be like saying she loves rainbows greater than she loves the abdomen virus. That's how not shut it's between me and Beyoncé.”
He continued, “If, for no matter purpose, Beyoncé ever determined to say, ‘That's it women, these males are animals. They're by no means going to alter. I don't find out about you, however I've had sufficient. Get in formation. It's time to kill each single certainly one of them.' On the off probability that occurs, I don't need to be current, OK? As a result of I do know on the subject of choosing sides, my spouse is on Beyoncé's aspect.”
September 2020
Kimmel gave perception into his and McNearney's coworker relationship throughout an look on the “SmartLess” podcast, saying, “I'll typically dream a joke or consider one thing in the midst of the evening, after which what I do is, as a result of I can't maintain it in, I'll wait till she's stirring after which I'll inform her what I believed (up). Deep in my cranium, I feel to myself, That is her job, so it's OK for me to do that. That's how I rationalize it.”
December 2020
Kimmel introduced through Instagram that he and McNearney would match donations as much as $25,000 to St. Joseph Middle, a Los Angeles-based charity that aids struggling households, to unfold cheer through the vacation season.
“Let's guarantee that each child will get presents this 12 months. @StJosephCtr makes certain that kids in LA & their mother and father have meals to eat and items to open. $25 will help deliver vacation cheer to those that badly want it,” he wrote, alongside a pic of Jane and Billy laughing collectively inside a cardboard field beneath a Christmas tree.
September 2025
Kimmel and McNearney stepped out on the 77th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards days earlier than ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel Reside! from its broadcast “indefinitely.” Whereas Kimmel didn't instantly handle the present's pause, Selection reported that the community primarily based its resolution on his controversial feedback about Charlie Kirk. (Kirk was shot and killed earlier that month on the age of 31.)
