Kimmel and his spouse, Molly McNearney, have been collectively for greater than a decade.
The Jimmy Kimmel Stay! host and McNearney met in 2004 when she started engaged on the present as a author’s assistant, per Glamour.
“After I first met him, he insulted me,” McNearney instructed the journal of their first assembly. “The manager producer introduced me into his workplace and stated, ‘That is Molly; she’s my new assistant.’ Jimmy barely regarded up from his desk till my EP stated, ‘She competes in triathlons,’ after which Jimmy regarded up at me and stated, ‘That’s actually silly! What a waste of time.'”
They started courting in 2010, two years after McNearney turned co-head author.
In keeping with McNearney, they have been initially platonic since they have been courting different individuals on the time. Following Kimmel’s break up from Sarah Silverman, he discovered love once more with McNearney.
“Once we began courting, I’d travel between my place and his,” she instructed Leisure Weekly. “I’ve my stuff at my home, and I like my very own area. One time, he was within the lavatory for a really very long time, and I simply figured one thing was occurring internally.”
After three years collectively, Kimmel popped the query to her throughout a trip at Kruger Nationwide Park in South Africa. They tied the knot in Ojai, Calif., on July 13, 2013.
Earlier than McNearney, Kimmel was married to his faculty sweetheart, Gina Maddy, from 1988 to 2002.