Selena Gomez, Olivia Rodrigo & 400+ More Artists Sign ACLU Letter Protesting Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension

Selena Gomez, Olivia Rodrigo and hundreds of different artists are speaking up aft Jimmy Kimmel Live! was pulled from the airwaves.

In an ACLU missive signed by much than 400 entertainers, immoderate of the astir celebrated names successful popular civilization rallied unneurotic to amusement enactment for Jimmy Kimmel pursuing the suspension of his late-night programme connected ABC. “We the radical indispensable ne'er judge authorities threats to our state of speech,” the missive reads.

“Last week, Jimmy Kimmel was taken disconnected the aerial aft the authorities threatened a backstage institution with retaliation, marking a acheronian infinitesimal for state of code successful our nation,” it continues. “In an effort to soundlessness its critics, our authorities has resorted to threatening the livelihoods of journalists, speech amusement hosts, artists, creatives and entertainers crossed the board.”

Ben Platt, Cyndi Lauper, Debbi Gibson, Joe Keery, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Rufus Wainwright, Sheryl Crow and Tom Morello were besides among the musicians who signed the letter, which ended with a telephone to enactment to “fight to support and sphere our constitutionally protected rights,” careless of governmental affiliation. Actors specified arsenic Meryl Streep, Joaquin Phoenix, Florence Pugh, Adam Scott, Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Lena Dunham, Mark Ruffalo and Natalie Portman besides added their names.

The missive comes little than a week aft ABC announced that it was indefinitely suspending Jimmy Kimmel Live! following unit from the Federal Communications Commission. (The Walt Disney Co. owns ABC, Hulu and ESPN, among different media properties.) Brendan Carr, the FCC’s chairman, had threatened to revoke the licenses of the network’s affiliates who continued to aerial Kimmel’s programme successful airy of comments the big made astir the fatal shooting of blimpish commentator Charlie Kirk earlier successful September.

“We deed immoderate caller lows implicit the play with the MAGA pack desperately trying to qualify this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk arsenic thing different than 1 of them and doing everything they tin to people governmental points from it,” Kimmel had said connected the program.

Rodrigo — who appeared connected Kimmel in 2021 and 2023 and teamed up with the programme to surprise trick-or-treaters past twelvemonth — shared her ain idiosyncratic connection denouncing the suspension connected Instagram Stories soon afterward. “So upset implicit this blatant censorship and maltreatment of power,” the popular prima wrote Sept. 20. “I basal with Jimmy Kimmel and I basal for state of speech.”

See the ACLU missive and its database of signees successful afloat below.

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