{"id":38182,"date":"2025-12-21T23:59:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/cancelled-us-comedian-jimmy-kimmel-to-deliver-christmas-message-to-uk\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:59:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:59:35","slug":"cancelled-us-comedian-jimmy-kimmel-to-deliver-christmas-message-to-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/cancelled-us-comedian-jimmy-kimmel-to-deliver-christmas-message-to-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancelled US comedian Jimmy Kimmel to deliver Christmas message to UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TV host who came under pressure from Trump government will say: \u2018From a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The US comedian whose late-night show was briefly cancelled after pressure from Donald Trump\u2019s government is to urge UK audiences to stand up for free speech.<\/p>\n<p>In a defiant alternative Christmas message on Channel 4, Jimmy Kimmel will liken the first year of Trump\u2019s second administration to the rise of fascism.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2025\/dec\/21\/jimmy-kimmel-alternative-christmas-message-uk-channel-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV host who came under pressure from Trump government will say: \u2018From a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year\u2019 The US comedian whose late-night show was briefly cancelled after pressure from Donald Trump\u2019s government is to urge UK audiences to stand up for free speech. In a defiant alternative Christmas message on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 18:24:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}