Source: ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Head Writer Not F**king Jimmy Kimmel

Yesterday, we noted a Gawker item suggesting that Molly McNearney, who swiftly ascended the Jimmy Kimmel Live! ranks from lowly Chinese Theatre Chewbacca-wrangling assistant to that show’s head writer, had been the woman who came between Kimmel and Sarah Silverman. A Defamer tipster who knows McNearny wrote us to say this couldn’t be further from the truth:

She is absolutely NOT banging Jimmy Kimmel. She was promoted from assistant to staff writer, and then from staff writer to head writer. Where’s the controversy there? That’s kinda how it works in this biz.

Also, as a matter of interest, Molly has been with her boyfriend for 3 years, and believe it or not was in Africa ministering to orphans when this story broke (that’s not sarcasm, I swear). The truth is that one of Jimmy’s BFFs works as a writer on the show, and Molly and another writer tried to let him go. He complained to Jimmy, got his job reinstated, and then sought a little revenge via the interwebs. The sad thing is that this is tearing Molly up.

Sounds like a real viper’s nest in there. In fairness, if Jimmy’s reinstated BFF wants to weigh in with his own version of events, we’ll gladly post that, too. C’mon, Uncle Frank: Let your voice be heard!

• Previously: ‘Us Weekly’ Liveblogs Sarah Silverman’s Post-Jimmy Kimmel-Breakup Brunch Of Despair [Defamer]