By no means let it’s mentioned that Jimmy Kimmel would let a foolish rivalry get in the way in which of being a hero.

Whereas lately chatting with Variety, the Jimmy Kimmel Live host shared an "untold story" about saving the lifetime of Matt Damon, his rival in a years-long feud.

Kimmel advised the outlet that the Oscar winner and his brother Kyle had been over at his house for dinner, which was pork ribs made by the comic himself.

"He got here late, was very hungry, and began consuming quick," Kimmel mentioned. "He began choking on a pork rib. It was caught in his throat for about an hour and a half."

"I mentioned, 'We have now bought to get him to the hospital,' as a result of if he dies in my home, I'm going to jail for the remainder of my life," Kimmel quipped. "I’ll by no means be capable of clarify this as something apart from a homicide."

Whereas the precise statistics behind demise by pork rib are nonetheless a thriller, Kimmel wasn't going to take any probabilities. He mentioned that he did "loads of YouTube-ing" earlier than they discovered that "consuming little bits of bread was the way in which to get that rib to work its means down into his abdomen."

That wound up being the important thing. "Bread saved him. We tried the Heimlich many occasions. It was too far down," Kimmel concluded.

Contemplating how lengthy Damon and Kimmel's fake enmity has been happening, it's stunning that Kimmel stored this story below wraps for thus lengthy. It might have served as the last word one-upper within the duo's longstanding antics.

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Particularly after Damon scored a giant victory in opposition to the late evening host final month.

Through the July thirtieth episode of Who Desires to Be a Millionaire, which Kimmel hosts in prime time, Damon competed with a secret weapon — Jeopardy host Ken Jennings.

The duo made all of it the way in which to the ultimate query, for all of the marbles: "Which of those phrases is used to explain some of the stunning auditory results on Earth: the sound made by the leaves of bushes when wind blows by way of them?"

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Jennings, who's received a recreation present (or 74-plus), mentioned he and his accomplice wished to "play this very secure." In order that they opted to remove two of the solutions. After the 50/50 confirmed that what Jennings had thought was doubtless the right reply, Damon mused, "It’s so superior having Ken Jennings as your accomplice in a trivia recreation. I can't even inform you."

Kimmel fumed that Damon was there with a trivia grasp, vowing to come back on Jennings' recreation present with "somebody you hate."

The duo finally received the $1 million, in what Kimmel known as "the least dramatic million-dollar second in historical past," they usually collected a test for the nonprofit Water.org, which Damon co-founded in 2009. The group is devoted to bringing water and sanitation to the world.

"I'm begrudgingly going to shake your hand," Kimmel advised Damon earlier than reaching out. And Damon accepted it.

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