How Jimmy Kimmel Reacted to Guillermo Rodriguez’s DWTS Elimination

Later, the 58-year-old—dad to Katie, 35, and Kevin, 33, with ex Gina Maddy, as well as Jane, 12, and Billy, 9, with wife Molly McNearney—played a clip where a young fan named showed support for Rodriguez—and inquired whether Kimmel was his father. 

“I am not Guillermo’s dad,” Kimmel quipped. “But I am just as proud of him as I am of my own children.”

And when Kimmel played the clip of Rodriguez and Carson finally getting eliminated, the comedian joked, “What a kick in the Mirrorballs.”

He later had Rodriguez and Carson dial into the show, at which point he praised both his longtime colleague and his dance partner, who competed while pregnant with her third baby. 

“Witney, your choreography this season has been absolutely incredible,” Kimmel mused. “The situations you’ve put Guillermo in—really, really impressive. I mean honestly, you’ve taken this lump of Play-Doh and you’ve sculpted him into a masterpiece.”

To Rodriguez, Kimmel joked, “You have brought so much joy to so many and now we have nothing to look forward to ever again.”

Rodriguez, for his part, wasn’t feeling at all out of step with getting sent home. After all, he revealed he had achieved the one thing he set out to do on DWTS. 

“Jimmy, I said I was gonna lose weight,” he said, “and I did lose weight.”

To see which DWTS contestants are left on the dancefloor, keep reading…