{"id":121758,"date":"2024-02-21T16:27:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T16:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/21\/jimmy-kimmel-calls-george-santos-lawsuit-most-preposterous-of-all-time\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:27:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T16:27:28","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-calls-george-santos-lawsuit-most-preposterous-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/21\/jimmy-kimmel-calls-george-santos-lawsuit-most-preposterous-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Calls George Santos Lawsuit &#8220;Most Preposterous&#8221; Of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jimmy-kimmel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jimmy-kimmel_1\" data-tag=\"jimmy-kimmel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> has a phrase for the lawsuit filed towards him over the weekend by former Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/george-santos\/\" id=\"auto-tag_george-santos_1\" data-tag=\"george-santos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Santos<\/a>. Actually, he has seven: \u201cThe most preposterous lawsuit of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn his first on-air response to the lawsuit, the host of ABC\u2019s <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/em> doubled down on the mocking of the disgraced Santos, who has been accused of, amongst different issues, identification theft and wire fraud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSantos filed the lawsuit towards towards Kimmel, ABC and Disney over a <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/em> bit during which the late-night host punked Santos through the use of invented names to order personalised Cameo messages from the ex-pol. Santos\u2019 messages had been then performed on the present.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn his lawsuit, Santos claimed, \u201cAt the heart of this dispute lies the deliberate deception and wrongful appropriation of the Plaintiff\u2019s digital content by the Defendants, orchestrated through the platform Cameo.com, where celebrities and public figures are meant to connect with their fans through personalized video messages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tResponded Kimmel final evening, \u201cHe says we deceived him under the guise of fandom \u2014 soliciting personalized videos, only to then broadcast these on national television. And if there\u2019s one thing George Santos will not stand for, it\u2019s using a fake name under false pretenses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAmong the pretend Santos followers invented by Kimmel had been the supposed winner of a beef-eating contest and a girl who had cloned her canine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThis is so good,\u201d Kimmel joked in regards to the lawsuit. \u201cI mean, this is like getting sued for paternity by Nick Cannon.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSantos, Kimmel cracked, is \u201cbeing represented by the prestigious law firm of Pot, Kettle and Black.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWatch the phase above.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Jimmy Kimmel has a phrase for the lawsuit filed towards him over the weekend by former Rep. George Santos. Actually, he has seven: \u201cThe most preposterous lawsuit of all time.\u201d In his first on-air response to the lawsuit, the host of ABC\u2019s Jimmy Kimmel Live doubled down on the mocking of the disgraced Santos, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-121758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}