By JOE REEDY, Related Press Sports activities Author
Jason Kelce will attempt his hand at late-night tv early subsequent yr.
Kelce introduced throughout an look on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Thursday evening that he’ll host “They Call It Late Night with Jason Kelce,” on ESPN. The one-hour present will tape on 5 straight Friday nights starting Jan. 3. That coincides with the final week of the NFL’s common season and the playoffs.
The present will originate in entrance of a reside viewers from Union Switch in Philadelphia. The primary 4 episodes will air at 1 a.m. EST beginning on Jan. 4 with the ultimate episode approaching at 1:30 a.m. EST on Feb. 1.
“I loved late-night shows, I’ve always loved them. I remember sleepovers watching Conan O’Brien with my friends,” Kelce mentioned on Kimmel’s present. “We’re going to have a bunch of guys up there — legends of the game, friends that I played with, coaches, celebrities,” Kelce mentioned.
The Philadelphia-based band Snacktime will present the present’s music.
NFL Movies will produce the present along side Kelce’s Wooderboy Productions and Skydance Sports activities.
Every episode will even be additionally seen on Replays airing on ESPN2, and in addition be obtainable on ESPN+, ESPN’s YouTube channel and the Jason Kelce channel on YouTube.
Kelce is within the first yr of a multi-year settlement with ESPN. He seems on the community’s “Monday Night Countdown” present in addition to offering halftime and postgame evaluation. He performed 13 years for the Philadelphia Eagles earlier than retiring on the finish of final season and was probably the most sought-after former participant by networks. He participated in final yr’s NFL Broadcasting and Media Workshop, which was often known as the “Broadcast Bootcamp.”
He was concerned in a confrontation with a fan in State Faculty, Pennsylvania, earlier than the Penn State-Ohio State recreation on Nov. 2, when a fan heckled Kelce and appeared to shout an anti-gay slur about his brother, Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce, for courting pop star Taylor Swift. Video confirmed Kelce grabbing the fan’s cellphone and throwing it to the bottom.
Kelce apologized in regards to the incident on ESPN on Nov. 4.
On Thursday evening an autograph seeker verbally confronted Kelce exterior the El Capitan Leisure Middle in Hollywood, the place “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” is taped.
Video obtained by TMZ exhibits Kelce explaining that he doesn’t signal autographs for those who observe the place he’s going. After being shouted at for over two minutes, Kelce finally acquired out of the automotive and signed autographs, together with shaking the hand of a person who was berating Kelce with obscenities.
