Jimmy Fallonrecently tested positive forCOVID-19.
TheTonight Showhost, 47, announced his diagnosis in a post on Instagram Monday, explaining that he received the positive results right before Christmas, despite being fully vaccinated.
“Hey guys, on the first day of our holiday break I tested positive for Covid. I was vaccinated and boostered which made me lucky enough to only have mild symptoms,” hewrote beside a photothat showed him sitting alone inside a testing room wearing a mask.
“Thank you to the doctors and nurses who work so hard around the clock to get everyone vaxxed,” he continued. “Thank you to NBC for taking the testing protocols so seriously and doing a great job.”
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“And also thanks for putting me in the ‘What ‘chu talkin’ about Willis?’ isolation room when they told me the news,” Fallon jokingly added, referencing Gary Coleman’s iconic line from the sitcom,Diff’rent Strokes.
Jimmy Fallon inside a COVID-19 testing room.Jimmy Fallon/instagram
Fallon is the latest celebrity to reveal that he contracted the virus amid the rising cases of coronavirussweeping the country, due mostly in part to the highly contagiousomicron variant.
Jimmy Fallon.Charles Sykes/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
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Other stars who’ve recently tested positive includeHugh Jackman,Whoopi Goldberg,Debra Messing,LL Cool J, andJessie J.
Weeks before he tested positive for COVID, Fallon teamed up withMegan Thee StallionandAriana Grandeto release a COVID-friendly holiday tune titled, “It Was A… (Masked Christmas)”.
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Fallonteased the music video on Instagramseveral times, including once where he showed himself and Grande wearing animated masks featuring each other’s mouths singing the lyrics, “It was a masked Christmas, we’re stuck in the house, we covered our nose, we covered our mouth” and “this Christmastime, we’ll be in line for a booster.”
Stallion was also seen in the clip, rocking a nurse’s uniform and vaccine syringes on her fingers.
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