--- title: Emma Watson Explains Mixing Up Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel description: Watch the 'The Circle' star recall the mortifying time she mistook Jimmy Fallon for Jimmy Kimmel on live television. canonical: https://time.com/4759452/emma-watson-jimmy-fallon-jimmy-kimmel-mix-up/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-28T16:12:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:12.050Z og:title: Emma Watson Explains That Time She Mixed Up TV's Jimmys og:description: Jimmy Fallon or Jimmy Kimmel? og:url: https://time.com/4759452/emma-watson-jimmy-fallon-jimmy-kimmel-mix-up/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Emma Watson Explains That Time She Mixed Up TV's Jimmys twitter:description: Jimmy Fallon or Jimmy Kimmel? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Emma Watson Explain That Time She Got Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel Mixed Up  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Apr 28, 2017 4:12 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Apr 28, 2017 4:12 PM UTC Emma Watson is usually poised and on her game, whether she’s [playing Belle](http://time.com/4555055/emma-watson-beauty-and-the-beast-first-look/) in _Beauty and the Beast_ or going [incognito as a book fairy](http://time.com/4565572/emma-watson-is-hiding-free-books-in-new-york-citys-subway-now/). But she had one hilarious on-air bumble that still haunts her: the time she mixed up late night TV hosts Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel. In a return visit to Fallon’s couch on Thursday night to promote her new dystopian thriller [_The Circle_](http://time.com/4758030/the-circle-movie-review-emma-watson/)_,_ Watson reminisced on one of her more mortifying live television blunders. “Before we even started the interview, I just dove straight in there with, ‘I love that Halloween candy thing that you do,'” Watson recollected. “And there was just silence.” That [“Halloween candy thing”](http://time.com/4554642/jimmy-kimmel-halloween-candy-kids-prank-2016/) happens to be a recurring gag that the other Jimmy of late night television, Jimmy Kimmel — _not_ Fallon — is known for, in which he brutally pranks kids into thinking parents have taken their hard-earned trick-or-treating sweets. “I died inside,” Watson said; to make it even more humiliating, it was the first time she had ever met Fallon. He graciously gave her the chance to exit and re-enter the stage, he recalled, after Watson had turned “bright red.” “We don’t ever want to embarrass our guests, so please, thank you for coming back,” he laughed about her return to that fateful stage. Watch them remember the embarrassing moment, above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4759452/emma-watson-jimmy-fallon-jimmy-kimmel-mix-up/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4759452/emma-watson-jimmy-fallon-jimmy-kimmel-mix-up/"},"headline":"Watch Emma Watson Explain That Time She Got Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel Mixed Up","datePublished":"2017-04-28T16:12:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:12.050Z","description":"Jimmy Fallon or Jimmy Kimmel?","url":"https://time.com/4759452/emma-watson-jimmy-fallon-jimmy-kimmel-mix-up/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4759452/emma-watson-jimmy-fallon-jimmy-kimmel-mix-up/","name":"Watch Emma Watson Explain That Time She Got Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel Mixed Up"}}]}] ```