{"id":20274,"date":"2022-01-22T06:07:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T14:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=20274"},"modified":"2023-03-16T10:23:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T17:23:37","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-is-blasted-for-comparing-bts-fans-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/jimmy-kimmel-is-blasted-for-comparing-bts-fans-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel is criticized for comparing BTS fans to Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <strong>James Corden<\/strong> provoked the fury of ARMYs, now it&#8217;s <strong>Jimmy Kimmel<\/strong>&#8216;s turn. The American TV presenter made a controversial statement on a recent episode of his talk show comparing <strong>BTS<\/strong> fans to<strong> Covid-19<\/strong>, a disease that has claimed the lives of more than 5 million people around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel hosted actress<strong> Ashley Park<\/strong> on her show, she is cast in \u201c<strong>Emily in Paris<\/strong>\u201d and covered \u201c<strong>Dynamite<\/strong>\u201d on the series. Members RM and V even praised her work on social media.<\/p>\n<p> In the chat, Kimmel made lame jokes related to the K-Pop group. First he said that ARMYs could attack her, but Ashley turned out to be a fan, so he backtracked. () <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ashley Park sang our song \u2018Dynamite\u2019 in Emily in Paris Season 2. I\u2019m watching this in a very upbeat surroundings. This makes me very delighted because our songs are still being listened by people all over the world. Oh my god, thank you! <\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u0618River, Citizen of Melville. (@TAE8YUNG) <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The actress said she was at the nail salon when she found out that <strong>V<\/strong> had posted the video of her \u201cDynamite\u201d performance. She recalled that her hands were shaking so much that it was a miracle to finish painting her nails:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<em><strong>I couldn&#8217;t think, I couldn&#8217;t speak and I couldn&#8217;t get up for the rest of the day<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>She felt like she was going into shock and thought it was just an intense reaction given her admiration for BTS.<\/p>\n<p> But at the end of the day, the <strong>symptoms<\/strong> Ashley was having were actually Covid-19. She explained that she would never have guessed that she had <strong>tested<\/strong> positive because she thought her body was just &#8220;melting&#8221; because BTS noticed her.<\/p>\n<p>You may also like: <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<em><strong>You thought it was BTS fever<\/strong><\/em>\u201d, Kimmel said and the actress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em><strong>They are both very dangerous. You are lucky to make it out alive<\/strong><\/em>\u201d, he dropped.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jimmy Kimmel interviewed Ashley Park who did the cover of dynamite on the tv show \u2018True Emily in Paris\u2019 and namjoon + tae posted it on Insta -she was talking about how she got COVID afterwards then jimmy went ahead and compared BTS to the virus and said \u2018they are both dangerous\u2019+ <\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jungkook\u2019s lost banana milk ?? (@lolobalsam) <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the pandemic, Asian people have been <strong>blamed<\/strong> for the spread of Covid-19 and many people found Kimmel&#8217;s joke <strong>racist<\/strong>. Netizens were especially shocked that he spoke in front of a woman of South Korean descent who is a fan of the K-Pop group.<\/p>\n<p><\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After James Corden provoked the fury of ARMYs, now it&#8217;s Jimmy Kimmel&#8216;s turn. The American TV presenter made a controversial statement on a recent episode of his talk show comparing BTS fans to Covid-19, a disease that has claimed the lives of more than 5 million people around the world. 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