Former Indiana mayor and presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg will probably be back on TV on Thursday, however not as a result of he’ll be talking at a rally or stumping on the trail.
As an alternative, he’ll be guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Buttigieg, 38, confirmed the news during an interview on Today on Monday morning, when he additionally stated he’ll be sitting down with Patrick Stewart as a guest on Kimmel’s show.
“We’re really excited for that, lining up an incredible slate of visitors,” he advised At present‘s Craig Melvin.
And, yes, meaning Buttigieg will probably be doing an ordinary late-night monologue — although no word yet on the jokes he’ll inform.
“Hopefully some funnier minds than mine might be performing some writing for that,” he stated on In the present day. “However I feel it’s going to be enjoyable. The factor about operating a presidential campaign is you will have been targeted on one thing and one factor only. It’s good to be able to zoom out and simply come back at life.”
Kimmel, 52, tweeted that Buttigieg can be filling in for him whereas he’s busy hosting the return of Who Needs to Be a Millionaire.
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Buttigieg, a Navy veteran who was the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, until January, was the breakout star of the 2020 campaign cycle. The first brazenly gay major presidential candidate, he vaulted in a yr from unknown to TIME cover star and history-making Iowa caucus winner.
“I definitely still have that sense of how unbelievable this all is,” Buttigieg told PEOPLE in January. “Once more, that’s part of the purpose. I feel, in an odd approach, that’s also a part of why we’re succeeding.”
Regardless of his slender win in Iowa and an in depth second-place in the New Hampshire main after that, Buttigieg pale in later contests and failed to connect with a wider swath of voters around the country.
He left the race last week and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden, who has since surged to be the race’s front-runner.
“Immediately is a moment of fact,” Buttigieg stated on March 1. “After a yr of going all over the place, assembly everyone, defying each expectation, in search of every vote, the truth is that the trail has narrowed to an in depth — for our candidacy if not for our cause.”
On In the present day on Monday, Buttigieg stated he was next planning to “be traveling a bit of bit, thanking supporters,” and he and husband Chasten have been “wanting forward to some time away.”
“Then we’ll come again and I’ll make myself useful in new methods.”
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