Jimmy Kimmel the TV show host and presenter is actually in the headlines now for all the wrong reasons. The hashtags #JimmyKimmelRacist and #StopAsianHate have been trending against him ever since he made some shocking remarks and comments on the very famous band of BTS. A report on pinkvilla.com talked of it and we take reference from that story for our write up here.
The TV presenter had repeated his remarks about BTS as per the latest episode of his talk show. Just a week after comparing the ‘BTS fever’ to COVID-19, Jimmy Kimmel has now insinuated that the group is deadly like the Omicron BA.2 variant of the virus.
His opening statements included the words, “You know, these variants, all the different variants, remind me of the boy bands in the late 90s and the early 2000s. You know, you had the big ones, like Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, and then that mutated into O-Town and 98 Degrees. And we had the Jonas Brothers popped up, Big Time Rush. They kept splitting off in different directions, eventually One Direction. And they took pieces, and it popped up all over the world, until eventually we get to one that’s so contagious it destroys all life on earth.”
Fans of BTS were enraged and understood that he probably meant to talk of BTS when he said about ‘contagious variant that destroys the world’. The fans are now against the presenter for his rude racist comments.