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Kathy Griffin wasn’t supposed to be a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday night. As the unfiltered comedian was quick to tell viewers when she sat down next to the host, “Let’s not B.S. the audience. I’m here, as usual, because a more famous person fell out.”
“But get this, it was Chris Pine, who Harry Styles spit on!” she continued. “So he doesn’t want to be here and get this one giving him the questions,” Griffin added, referring to Kimmel. “The reason you called me is you know, I’ve been spit on my whole career,” she said, joking that she was even spit on by Harry Styles once: “But I asked him to.”
It’s true that as of earlier this week, Pine was scheduled to be the lead guest on Kimmel’s late-night show and ducked the appearance at the last minute. Presumably, as Griffin suggested, it was because he didn’t want to have to address the many ongoing controversies surrounding his new movie Don’t Worry Darling, be it the infamous spitting incident at the Venice Film Festival or whose side he has taken in the very public Olivia Wilde vs. Florence Pugh feud. Neither Pine nor Pugh showed up for the film’s big premiere in New York this past weekend.