Jimmy Kimmel went head to head with Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion Kavya Shivashankar last night in the 6th Annual Jimmy Kimmel Live Spelling Bee. It was a mess. Kimmel had perpetual sidekick, Guillermo, act as the "pronunciator" for the event. He pronounced the word vegetate, BEE-KAH-TAY...Kavya unsurprisingly got that wrong.
When Jimmy got up to the plate, Guillermo pronounced the word "facet" FAH-KID. When asking to use it in a sentence Guillermo said, "I can say FAH-KID." When Kimmel found out what the word was supposed to be he looked at Guillermo and said, "That's facet you dumbass."
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Kimmel lost, but not for lack of trying. At one point he went as far as to pull Kavya's ponytail.
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