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Oscars 2024: Jimmy Kimmel's wife Molly McNearney says she 'tried to talk' Oscars host 'out of reading' Donald Trump social media post panning his performance


McNearney, 46, spoke with Variety Monday after serving as a co-executive producer on the telecast, which garnered the highest Nielsen ratings since the pandemic struck.

Jimmy Kimmel's wife Molly McNearney, 46, says that she advised her husband, 56, against acknowledging a social media post from former President Donald Trump, 77, at Sunday's Academy Awards, which turned out to be a high point in an outing that drew mixed reviews In another sequence that received mixed reviews, Kimmel had WWE star-action film staple John Cena, 46, emerge on the stage naked in a nostalgic nod to the David Niven streaker incident of 1974. An earlier start time Sunday, as the televised broadcast commenced at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, was cited by THR as a potential factor in the higher ratings, in addition to the focus on two high-profile projects, Oppenheimer and Barbie.

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