Jennifer Aniston leads celebs celebrating Jimmy | TV Shows

Jennifer Aniston has formally spoken out following the controversy surrounding her good friend Jimmy Kimmel. The comic returned to the air in choose markets following his temporary suspension from ABC over feedback about Charlie Kirk.

Kimmel was yanked off the air on Sept. 17 after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatened to pull licenses from syndicate corporations, with two major broadcast community house owners, Nexstar and Sinclair, shortly following swimsuit before Disney and ABC also preempted him “Indefinitely.”

Now, while affiliate stations are still refusing to put Kimmel back on the air, he has been reinstated and aired his first show back, starting on Tuesday, Sept. 23, after his followers mounted campaigns to get him back by boycotting Disney.

Following his return, Anison, a longtime good friend of the late-night comedy host and his spouse, took to social media to share her assist–the first time she spoke out on the scenario.

Taking to her Instagram Stories, Aniston shared a post from Jimmy Kimmel Live that confirmed the host as he ready to stroll back on stage for the first time.

She added a simple purple coronary heart to the image.

Her remark got here after sources beforehand told Daily Mail that the Morning Show star needed to show assist sooner, but wasn’t ready to do so after she was cautioned by her workforce to keep quiet due to potential backlash she might also face due to her assist.

“[She] is 100 percent in [Kimmel’s] corner,’” a source said at the time, including that her workforce had warned her talking out might invoke penalties.

“Jen and Jimmy have been very close friends for years. She desperately wants to come out in support of him being pulled off the air over his comments because she’s one hundred percent in his corner,” the source said. “However, her reps are advising her this is one time she should stay out of the conversation.”

“Her representatives are strongly advising her to restrain herself about Kimmel publicly for fear of the backlash,” they added.

It was also a “very hard decision” for her because she’s “not a person who holds back,” and often “speaks her mind.”

Aniston did share her assist by becoming a member of other A-listers who just lately signed an ACLU open letter condemning the suspension, calling it a “dark moment for freedom of speech in our nation.”

In his first show back, Kimmel addressed the feedback that led to his suspension, saying he never supposed to make gentle of Kirk’s homicide, and shortly attacked President Donald Trump for his blatant makes an attempt to get Kimmel and other late-night hosts vital of him off the air.

“The president of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke,” Kimmel said.

“He was able to squeeze Colbert out of CBS, then he turned his sights on me, and now he’s openly rooting for NBC to fire Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers and the hundreds of Americans who work for their shows who don’t make millions of dollars,” he added. “And I hope that if that happens, or if there’s even any hint of that happening, you will be 10 times as loud as you were this week.”

Kimmel was booted off the air after his feedback about Kirk’s accused murderer, where he said that “the MAGA gang” was making an attempt to painting him as “anything other than one of them.”

Despite Disney’s choice to carry Kimmel back, he continues to be pre-empted in markets owned by Nexstar and Sinclair.

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In a assertion on its web site, Newstar said it “stands by that decision” to preempt him “pending assurance that all parties are committed to fostering an environment of respectful, constructive dialogue in the markets we serve.”

Their ABC-owned stations that are persevering with to blackout Kimmel’s show are positioned in 20 states around the United States.

Sinclair has also refused to return Kimmel to the air at its stations, after saying they needed him to not only apologize, but make donations straight to Charlie Kirk’s household and his group, Turning Point USA.

Both affiliate corporations notably have merger offers on the desk that require FCC approval. NexStar plans to purchase Tegna, which is able to also require the FCC to carry the 39% cap on broadcast TV station possession.