Jimmy Kimmel Evacuated From Small Island In French Polynesia

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** FILE ** Jimmy Kimmel, star of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" is shown in this May 15, 2007, file photo in New York. Kimmel was in good shape after having an emergency appendectomy on Wednesday night in Los Angeles. "The surgery was a success," Kimmel's publicist, Lewis Kay, said in an e-mail Thursday June 21, 2007. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, file)

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LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Jimmy Kimmel has reportedly been evacuated from a small French Polynesian island after the largest earthquake in Japan’s recorded history struck that island nation.

The 8.9-magnitude quake prompted a tsunami advisory for much of the South Pacific, as well as Southern California. Fierce waves crashed into Northern California beaches and harbors just before 9 a.m. Friday.

“Suddenly, relaxing on an island in the South Pacific isn’t so relaxing anymore. Good thing I brought my aqua stilts,” Kimmel tweeted.

He later tweeted: “we are evacuating the island. dogspeed.”

No other details about where Kimmel was being taken were immediately available.

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Lenny says:

March 11, 2011 at 9:50 am

Now I can relax. Jimmy Kimmel is safe.
Please!!!

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1. Jimmy says:
  
  March 11, 2011 at 9:53 am
  
  You sure were concerned reading the article…
  
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  1. Lenny says:
    
    March 11, 2011 at 10:01 am
    
    only as concerned as I am for all the others that are suffering.
  2. pito says:
    
    March 11, 2011 at 3:04 pm
    
    Good one. A burn on Lenny!!