The return of Jimmy Kimmel Live! earlier this week smashed the show’s rating records despite ABC affiliate Sinclair Broadcasting Group refusing to air it.

The US talk show host, 57, came back to screens on Tuesday after his show was taken off air by ABC and Disney after comments he made following Charlie Kirk’s death about the ‘MAGA gang’ trying to score political points.

Amid the right-wing backlash which led to his six-day suspension, hundreds of Hollywood stars petitioned to restore him to TV with the majority of fellow late-night hosts slamming the decision.

In his emotional return monologue, Kimmel said ‘it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man’ and also took down Trump who himself has threatened to sue ABC after Kimmel’s return.

Despite Trump declaring

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