>> dicky: tonight on an all new "jimmy kimmel live" --? going from midnight to 11:35 might not seem like a big deal it's only 25 minutes. probably the most important 35 manipulates of my life since i had sex. >> dicky: gordon ramsay. >> jimmy: i like it when the chef's back.

[ cheers and applause ] >> announcer: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live"! tonight gordon ramsay, jordin sparks, and music from andy grammer. with cleto and the cletones. and now, first things first, here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ? very nice. >> jimmy: very nice. hi there, i'm jimmy. thank you for watching. thanks for being here. and i'm glad you are here

because we have -- we got some big news. it was a big day for us here today. you may have heard about this or maybe not. abc, our network, announced today, and i hope this want a prank because it would be a very cruel thing to do. starting in january right around the ten-year anniversary. the show is moving from midnight to 11:35. that's going to be a little off my feeding schedule. i know moving from midnight to 11:35 might not seem like a big deal, it's only 25 minutes but it's probably the most important 25 minutes of my life since the first 14 times i had sex. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: and the big news is oftentimes, people will come up to me and tell me your show's on too late for me. well, you're going to need a new excuse now. for instance, your show sucks. [ laughter ] starting in january, "nightline" will be on after us, but other than that, not much will change,

although we are in negotiations to replace guillermo with mario lopez. i'm really sorry. [ boos ] >> jimmy: i'm sorry, but sex sells, you know. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: are you excited about this guillermo? >> guillermo: yeah, very excited, jimmy, you're a great boss, great friend and great human being. >> jimmy: no cue cards or anything. [ applause ] thank you, guillermo. i feel the same way about you, except for the boss thing. [ laughter ] i want to take a moment to wish the senior citizens in our audience a happy senior citizens day. today was senior citizens day, so don't forget to have your grandparents -- [ applause ] in honor of senior citizens day today, i ate an entire bowl of hard candy and pretended not to know what a laptop was. [ laughter ] senior citizens day was made official by president reagan in 1988 to recognize the

contributions the elderly do for this country. it's a great da to make a holiday, there's nothing more than to have a special holiday to remind them they are indeed old. i remember showing my grandfather. it's fun to pair new people up with new technology because they're extra-amazed by it. tonight in honor of senior citizens days, these are special grandmas and fathers trying to figure out video chat. enjoy. ♪ >> i don't hear it clicking, do you? do you hear it clicking? >> no. >> now, look at the monkey. >> can you capture -- i put it on capture. >> we can hear you and see you. >> you can? >> that's what it says. >> we can't see you. >> we got to wait here. 16, 15, 14, 13 -- >> you can e-mail these to

selected media, why won't it take a picture. >> take a photo, oh, dear. >> i don't know what we're going to do. we can hear you not see you, just keep trying. >> did you hear it click? did you hear it click? >> no. >> warning, you must stop recording before trying to close. cyberlink. oh, gee. i don't know -- i don't know what i'm recording, shucks. >> now, did you hear it click now? >> no. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: no! i hope the duchess of alba got a chance to celebrate senior citizens day. this is the duchess of alba, she's an 86-year-old spanish

millionaire. she married that gentleman last year. he's young enough to be her son but greedy enough to be her husband. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: luckily, for all of us today, photographs of the duchess in a bikini have surfaced online. [ ohs ] >> jimmy: oh, you want to see one? okay. we happen to have one, there she is, frolicking in the m mediterranean sea. are seniors supposed do do that. the princeton review just released its annual list of top party schools in the united states. the number one party college for 2012 is west virginia university. west virginia students today celebrated by continuing to celebrate, i guess. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: but if your kid goes to west virginia, don't worry, your kid doesn't drink. it's the other kid that drinks.

your kid is like come on, guys, let's play word games. beer is for loser. the dean tried to downplay it, claiming clearly in the big picture the list has no credibility. this is the dean. this is the third time the mountaineers have had this honor bestowed upon them. they were also named top party school in '97 and on 7. and the school that ranked last was the online university of phoenix. the students had a big celebration there, too. >> we're going to get this party started. whoo whoo whoo -- >> shut the [ bleep ] up. i'm trying to watch the game! >> jimmy: well, you know the parties are terrible, but the meal plan is perfect. [ applause ]

>> jimmy: the white house yesterday -- yesterday, the white house hosted something they called the first ever states ever for kids. the dinner was actually not dinner, it was a luncheon put on with the first lady. the kids in attendance were winners of the nationwide recipe contest. they had a contest and challenged kids to come up with healthy meals. most of the recipes had cute names, kickin' chicken salad, power pesto pasta. and secret salad salad, the last one was served in a hooker's bra cup. one young lady who participated was madeleine. cnn interviewed madeleine. keep a close eye on her mom's lips here. >> madeline, congratulations, you and your mommy what was the recipe that won it. >> salad with a chicken salad. >> wow, what inspired you? >> i know i love soup, i wanted

to do soup then i ran into a cookbook called "celebrate virginia." i looked what the state beverage of virginia was, it was milk, the first soup that came to my head that had milk in it was chowder. >> nice. >> jimmy: i don't know if her arm is up, she's working her daughter like a ventriloquist, but, oh, there's more where that came from. >> what did you tell the first lady when you saw her? >> i saw her, i told her i was really glad to see her. and i was really excited for that day. >> okay. madeleine, i know that you're taking japanese lessons can you say anything in japanese to us like good-bye? >> sayonara. >> sayonara. >> jimmy: sayonara. you can say that in japanese. moms get excited. football fans though there's a

referee strike in the nfl right now. they're demanding more money and silly shirts. because the regular refs are refusing work, the nfl had to use replacement refs for preseason games. last night, the patriots played the eagles. it might be a good idea to get the strike settled. >> jeremy ebert taking it over the 20 yard line, ryan rowe. healthy marker back before the kickoff started. get that away from me. >> jimmy: he's not ready for some football, i guess. there's some unsettling news in the world of pornography right now last week the l.a. county health department received five reports of adult contractors contracting syphilis. all shooting has bn stopped until all 1,000 registered actors get tested for syphilis. they say this could result in l.a. losing 25% of its male

ponytail population. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: it's scary. what if our supply of porn runs out. by my calculations right now online, there's only enough pornography to last us for maybe a hundred billion years. [ laughter ] so do we really need any more? do they really need to make it? is anyone going out there saying oh that's so 2008? on a more wholesome note, this is a great video. a couple of brothers from houston, seth and aaron. their parents took them to see the new disney movie called "the odd life of jeffrey green." they plant the paper in the garden and their wishes grow to a real boy named timothy green. if you hate spoilers when it comes to half boy/half plant movies, go ahead and cover your ears, i'll wait for a second,

all right? okay. at the end of the movie, timothy kind of dies. he doesn't really die, but he just kind of goes away. this upset seth and aaron so much that their parents had no other choice but to videotape them crying. >> what was the movie about? [ crying ] >> it was about timothy green, and he had to die. >> he had to die! [ crying ] >> he had to die. >> what happened to timothy green. >> he had to die. [ crying ] >> jimmy: you want to go play mini golf, kids? it's the saddest episode of "cash cab" ever. by the way, that was just a small part of this hysteria.

>> do people go and see this movie? >> yes, they do. yes. it will tear out your eyes. [ crying ] >> guys want to go see the movie again? >> no. [ crying ] >> he dies. >> what did we tell you about what happens in life? >> you have to go. you have to go. >> why can't you stop crying? >> timothy dies. >> jimmy: can i say i did the same thing the first time i saw "the notebook"? [ laughter ] they seem like nice kids, whenever i see kids like this in a video, i always wonder what they're going to be like when they grow up. that's why we came up with a

brilliant new envention on the show. i call it the youtube time machine. what we're able to do is load a video in the machine and be able to see what the children will be like in the future, okay? so we're going to set the youtube time machine to see what seth and aaron will be like in about 40 years. >> what happened to the cowboy? >> oh, they lost. >> do you want them to always win? >> yes. >> yes. [ crying ] >> why can't you stop crying? >> because it was so sad. >> jimmy: it's weird that their mom's still drive aring them. [ applause ] >> jimmy: i'm just happy to see there's still football in 40 years. we have a good show. jordin sparks is here. we have music from andy grammer. and we'll be right back with chef gordon ramsay so stick

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kyra sedgwick, these guys collect funny vhs tapes. this is the sort of thing we won't be doing when we move to 11:30. instead of a suit, i'm going to wear really short shorts. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: you know? and so are you, guillermo. we're both going to wear them. >> guillermo: that's great. our first guest tonight is a celebrated chef who combines a mastery of cuisine with a propensity for profanity. his new show called "hotel hell" airs monday nights on fox. please welcome chef gordon ramsay. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: well, gordon, i was watching the olympics, the closing ceremonies of the olympics. they had all the great stars

from england. they had paul mccartney and the spice girls and mr. bean was out there playing the keyboard. >> yeah. >> jimmy: who was left off that list? you? >> yeah. >> jimmy: do you believe it's because you are a fox celebrity that nbc banned you from the -- [ laughter ] >> there was a suggestion, i could actually clear out the stage in a very polite way. >> jimmy: that would be great. you come out and tell everyone to go the -- home. >> that's [ bleep ] it was an amazing ceremony. >> jimmy: it was. >> for a nation like britain, i mean, 29 golds. i think we did a great job. >> jimmy: i think so, too. it was a great olympics. it really was. did you watch the whole thing there? did you go to the games? >> no, i was watching it here. the kids were excited, every time they'd see a dive or some event, they'd go down to ucla.

>> jimmy: who are your kids rooting for? they lived here in the united states for a while, right? >> we came over for the summer. predominantly still living in england. i have two girls, megan is 14. a performance. >> jimmy: kids don't care about performance. so now you're an athlete also. in fact, we saw a video. i think we saw this on the show. there's a video of what was it a celebrity soccer game that you play. >> a big charity match. it was supposed to be charity. >> jimmy: it wasn't very charitable. >> no, we had an amazing team for the rest. will ferrell. >> jimmy: he's on your team? >> yeah, a phenomenal lineup. mike myers. >> jimmy: why were you on the rest of the world? >> i'm from scotland. >> jimmy: that's you right there. >> yeah.

>> jimmy: but what we don't really see -- you really get hammered here from behind. >> guess what, he gives me a slap in the face. >> jimmy: yeah, he does. i don't know, is this some kind of tradition where after you seriously injure somebody, you give them a little knee there, a shrill slap and smear. >> honestly -- >> jimmy: who was that. >> teddy sheraton. amazing. >> jimmy: so he's a professional, this guy? >> he was a professional. that was for a unicef charity match, and honestly, i felt like i had been hit by a train. >> jimmy: that doesn't seem fair. did any of your teammates retaliate? >> they were too tired. the whole thing -- sadly, after i got taken off, we got stuffed 3-1. >> jimmy: you did. you're very muscular, i noticed,

when you came out and i touched you. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: is it because you put yourself in so much danger each time you enter the kitchen and start fighting with the chefs there. >> i take care of myself. >> jimmy: what do you do now, triathlons? >> i'm traying f itraining for england. ironman. >> jimmy: that's the hard one. >> 100k bike ride and swim and run. >> jimmy: wow. a whole marathon. not just a marathon, but two other huge things. this is all day? why do you do this? >> i eat like a horse. chefs don't have the best diet. i pick all day long. in order to stay at that level, i need to stay fit. and i have a very, very active life. >> jimmy: really? >> yes.

>> jimmy: loss i libecause i lin a chef is fat. it makes me feel like things must be good in the kitchen. i look at you and i go, i don't know. >> i was a fat chef once. >> jimmy: you were? >> yeah. a long time ago. and you go out to the table and it's uncomfortable. you're supposed to cook it not [ bleep ] eat it. >> jimmy: you got to have a little taste, right? >> taste. >> jimmy: do you eat a full big meal every time you sit down or little snacks or what? >> you can't really actually go and sit down and eat dinner before you cook dinner for 80 or 100 guests. you need to stay active. i like those little bits. almost like 500 or 600 a day. smaller bowls. >> jimmy: when you're running in all that stuff, do you make yourself a little lunch? >> a picnic. >> jimmy: i don't know.

>> ahi tuna [ bleep ] >> jimmy: no? >> no. i eat that -- >> jimmy: you do? do you eat that stuff, can't you make your own roll-up bar? >> like a chocolate rollup bar. >> jimmy: this seems like something you could make money on, something delicious as you run. >> you're on that and you're going up through malibu, this time of year and everyone's barbecuing. you go and your butts killing because -- all of a sudden [ bleep ] smells, you can identify the chicken drumsticks and bacon. >> jimmy: when you're running by, do you insult their cooking as awe go? >> funny thing, no one can see me with my glasses on. >> jimmy: you do an interesting thing, you went into a prison as part of a reality show, not for

serving for some crime, and you taught the prisoners how to cook. >> yeah, sort of a documentary for prisons, almost like a production kitchen where we cook from the inside to do on the outside. in the uk, they lay in a bed for 21 hours a day and they get five choices per night for their entries. >> jimmy: they do? >> yeah, they play soccer, they have dvds. >> jimmy: that sounds fantastic. >> the idea what is to motivate these guys. >> jimmy: they have five choices of entries. >> i was like, if you don't give them five choices, it could hit the fan. even we don't have five choices. >> jimmy: our prisons would crush your prisons.

[ laughter ] >> jimmy: our prisons would literally eat your prisoners as their five entrees per night. i imagine you don't yell at them as much as the people on the tv show. >> oh, no. we were working, all of a sudden, one guy flies around and headbutts the other one. knives start flying. >> jimmy: they have knives? >> they need knifes to work in the kitchen, yeah. we lost one, it disappeared, bang, security hit the button. >> jimmy: i'll tell you what, i'm headed right back to london and i'm going to get arrested because this sounds like the best place ever. >> then all of a sudden, it's like a strip search to look for this four-inch blade. >> jimmy: did they find that? >> no. >> jimmy: they didn't? where can one hide that? >> you'd be surprised where those things can go. >> jimmy: when we come back, we talk about your new show "hotel

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[ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: we're back. jordin sparks and andy grammer coming up. we're back with gordon ramsay. you just opened a new restaurant in las vegas. how many restaurants do you have now? >> 22 now. >> jimmy: 22, that's a lot of restaurants. >> it's amazing. thank you. >> jimmy: and do people -- i imagine it would be intimidating working with you, but do people expect you to scream and yell and do all of that great stuff all the time? >> i was in vegas, and a guy came up, hey, chef, it's my 60th birthday, will you cook?

you're having lunch, you're having fun here. come on, i'll donate $10,000 to your charity, just call me a [ bleep ] donkey? >> jimmy: did you do it? >> no, it's got to be real. it can't be fake. >> jimmy: did you draw him out or what happened? >> his birthday, come on. >> jimmy: i would have run him out. he probably would have gotten a kick out of that. what is the idea between "hotel hell." >> in kichtchens, they're set. for success, i have a hotel of our own, ten bedrooms it's like going into these places, a much bigger scale, turning them upside down. anyone can go and buy a hotel, you get a little carried away but don't understand the actual customers. >> jimmy: do people buy hotels

in the same way they buy restaurants, oh, this will be fun and they don't have any idea what they're doing? >> all of a sudden, they're running a business, all of a sudden, they get carried away. a hotel in san diego, i got it designed by the guy who designed ferrari. well you don't sleep in a [ bleep ] farrar errari, do you? and i was in a haunted hotel. >> jimmy: a haunted hotel. do you believe in that? >> there are people on the floor, what you guys doing? shh, we spotted a ghost. come on. >> jimmy: did they find the ghost? >> no. >> jimmy: they did not find the ghost. why didn't they just turn on the lights? >> i did. i -- >> jimmy: yeah, all the ghosts fly away when you turn the lights on. so now you have "hotel hell"

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[ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: we're back. andy grammer is still to come. our next guest is the youngest contestant ever to win "american idol" at the tender age of 17. now she stars in her first film, playing daughter to the late

whitney houston in the new movie "sparkle", which is in theaters now, please say hello to jordin sparks. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: you look great. how are you? >> i am good. i'm good. >> jimmy: i'm told you're getting tall, is that possible? >> you might be shrinking. >> jimmy: i probably am shrinking. do you take pride in the fact that you're youngest "american idol" winner? >> i do. >> jimmy: if you saw a 16-year-old on the show, would you call the other person just to make sure you retain that? >> vote for all of them? of them.: you can't vote for all there's no point in voting for all of them. you might as well vote for none of them. >> the funny thing is actually i didn't care the first year -- i did care, hold on, let me

rephrase that. then, afterwards, here's david he's going to win that. the other person was older than me and now the other person, now, i kind of want to hold on to it. >> jimmy: you're holding on to your record. that's special. your dad played in the nfl, philippe sparks, football star. [ applause ] >> yeah. hi, dad. >> jimmy: was he disappointed that you did not go to professional football, follow in his footsteps? >> he wasn't actually -- i wanted to. i grew up in a football family, my dad played, my brother played. i used to go to pop warner. and i remember seeing a girl and i was like, mom, sign me up. and she's like, no, honey. and then i started singing and

that worked out. >> jimmy: your boyfriend is a singer as well, jason derulo. how long you have been going out? >> actually, we celebrated our first year anniversary on july 1st. >> jimmy: congratulations. does your dad like him? >> they do, actually, my dad and my mom. i get along well with his parents. my mom's a pretty nice sell. she get along nice. she's like, oh, he's so great. actually, my mom was a fan of his music before things changed between us. she actually was the one who dragged me to his show the first time we met and i didn't want to go there. >> jimmy: oh, so your mother's in love with him? >> yes. >> jimmy: how did you guys celebrate your anniversary? >> actually, he was on his way to australia. i was performing at the grove. he was going to australia. what he did which is really

sneaky was, he sent me this e-mail, make sure you check the concierge desk before you go upstairs. i did. there were really pretty stud earrings. >> jimmy: so you're wearing those? and the other matches? >> the other matches. >> jimmy: it's better when they match. it makes sense. that's very smooth. did you look them up to find out how much they cost afterwards? >> no, honestly, i wasn't expecting it at all. we were gone. i was like, whatever, we'll celebrate when we get back. >> jimmy: so you didn't get him anything? >> no, i did, i ordered him a really cool pocket watch that says i will love you every second of every day. >> jimmy: that's nice. >> and it's got a nice chain. it doesn't look all dainty. >> jimmy: i don't care if it looks dainty. >> i'll get you a dainty one.

>> jimmy: now, you're acting in this movie, whitney houston personally picked you to be in his movie with her, is that true? >> when you put it that way, it just makes it, ocean, my gosh. she was an executive producer and this is definitely was something she had been working on for a really long time. so she did have a helping hand in picking the cast and actresses and actors for the role. it was amazing to be working across from her. >> jimmy: did you have to audition for her? >> not for her, actually but i did go through a crazy audition process. it was crazy to me because i had never done it before. >> jimmy: you did it for like 16 weeks in a row on "american idol." >> but that's different. you give me a microphone, that's cool. going in there and having the same mind-set as the director, trying to get the character close to what they're thinking, it was so nerve-racking. i think i did okay.

>> jimmy: obviously, you did okay. do you think that experience being on television helped you with that? >> yes, actually, "idol" is the ultimate pressure cooker when you're learning songs like that. you're meeting with the mentors and sings their songs in front of them. >> jimmy: and you're a teenager and they're tormenting you. >> exactly. and then i did school on top of that. it was definitely crazy. >> jimmy: tell us what's going on in his photograph. >> i love this picture. we were waiting for the camera to turn around. we're shooting the dinner scene. when you guys see the camera, you'll know what scene. that's me and karmin and tika. we were waiting. >> jimmy: i don't think people realize, that's whitney houston there, she's wearing '60s clothing. >> she looks so beautiful there. we got up there, my ipod came on, the dougie came on -- we're

mid-dougie in that photo. it came on, we were all dancing, she walked in and we all kind of like paused. >> jimmy: did she say, teach me how to dougie? >> not in those words, but yeah, i want to dance, too. she was so fun. even that entire movie, it was incredible to be around her and the rest of the cast, and i think the movie is so much better and even more amazing than i thought it was going to be. and it's gritty and there's some dark twists. you know, there's the music, obviously. >> jimmy: there's a duet between you and whitney. >> there's a duet. >> jimmy: is that intimidating. she's got one of the greatest voices ever. >> we actually didn't get to record it together. >> jimmy: oh, that's probably for the best, right? >> i probably would have -- i'm going to shut up and i'm going to walk over here and let her sing the rest of the song. >> jimmy: owe it's not a duet anymore. >> exactly. it might have been for the best

that we weren't together. she went in and did her part. then i came in and did a few more and it was so fun to be able to hear her in the background, you could hear her smiling. >> jimmy: i would imagine so. congratulations. i'm glad everything is going so well for you. "sparkle" is in theaters now. when we come back music from andy grammer. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ [ man ] excuse me miss. [ gasps ] this fiber one 90 calorie brownie has all the moist, chewy, deliciousness you desire. mmmm. thanks. [ man ] at 90 calories, the brownie of your dreams is now deliciously real. [ female announcer ] and now, try our new chocolate chip cookie 90 calorie brownie.

[ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: this is his self-titled cd, here with the song "miss me", andy grammer! ♪ ♪ i wake up and i'm sober don't even know you anymore punch drunk on a feeling lost in believing ♪ ♪ i was sure i don't care what you have to say damn words get in the way ♪ ♪ i don't wanna know i know there'll come a time when i look you in the eyes and say i told you so ♪

♪ and i promise you this you're gonna miss me miss me as long as you live ♪ ♪ you're gonna miss me miss me oh set me up for the falling gave me no warning ♪ ♪ you were gone let me down i was reading i can't believe ♪ ♪ what you have done go do what you've gotta do damn words will follow you everywhere you go ♪ ♪ and i know there'll come a time when i look you in the eyes and say i told you so ♪

♪ and i promise you this you're gonna miss me miss me as long as you live you're gonna ♪ ♪ miss me miss me oh i believe in my heart when something's wrong say it's wrong ♪ ♪ i can deal with the part when something's wrong if we both stay strong i know there will ♪ ♪ come a time when i look you in the eyes and say i told you so

and i promise you this ♪ ♪ you're gonna miss me miss me as long as you live you're gonna ♪ ♪ miss me miss me oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh i wake up and i'm sober ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: i want to thank gordon ramsay, jordin sparks. apologies to matt damon, we ran out of time. tomorrow night robert pattinson,