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Jelly Roll displayed his shrinking body when he guest hosted Jimmy Kimmel Live two nights this week.
The 40-year-old music artist — whose 10-year friendship with The Rock was recently revealed — filled in for the late night host, revealing his slimmest look yet after losing 200lbs.
He wore an all-black outfit for the hosting duties, adding a gold chain and sporting his signature mullet.
Jelly, real name Jason DeFord, poked fun at himself on Thursday night’s episode, treating viewers to a parody song made up of insults hurled at him on the internet.
‘I’ve never been the one to let my haters get me down. So tonight I’m going to debut my brand new single, and this entire song is going to be made up of comments that people have written about me online. Y’all want to hear it?’ he teased before breaking into the tune.
Some of the digs that made up the jokey song were: ‘Being forced to listen to Jelly Roll against my will, and it sucks, ‘I used to hate Jelly Roll. I still do,’ and ‘Jelly Roll looks like a meth addict grabbed a microphone.’
Jelly Roll displayed his shrinking body when he guest hosted Jimmy Kimmel Live this week
The 40-year-old music artist filled in for the late night host, revealing his slimmest look yet after losing 200lbs; pictured left on July 17, and right in October 2021
The good-humored entertained also quoted a social media snub that said, ‘Jelly Roll slimmed the f*** up, lookin’ more like a Fruit Roll-Up.’
Last December DeFord unveiled a new health and fitness goal.
In a conversation with his wife Bunnie XO on her Dumb Blonde podcast, the music artist said he wants to land the cover of Men’s Health magazine.
‘I wanna be on the cover of Men’s Health by March of 2026. That’s my new goal,’ he announced five months ago.
The star declared: ‘I wanna have one of the biggest transformations.’
He added that he was ‘so glad’ to be having the discussion in front of an audience.
‘I did this publicly for a reason. I wanna be honest about my struggles with it with people,’ he noted.
The musician explained about body image and fame, ‘I think that people that become as big as I became, when they lose the weight, they’re kind of ashamed.
The star, real name Jason Bradley DeFord, also hosted on July 16
‘They’re so ashamed that they go hide and lose the weight, and then they come back out [and] they don’t really know how to interact with the world looking different or feeling different, and they kinda gotta find their whole new way.
‘I wanted to lose it in front of everybody. I wanted to talk about it.’
Jelly emphasized about losing weight in the spotlight, ‘I wanna bring people along with me…I didn’t become successful because of my weight. I became successful in spite of it.’
He also acknowledged, ‘I somehow managed to be this successful with carrying 550 pounds. That’s insane.’
