Jed Rosenzweig

Eight months after its debut in Northeast Costco stores, the Jimmy Kimmel Live! sidekick’s refrigerated salsa brand is headed to Kroger stores nationwide in its first coast-to-coast retail deal.

O’Donnell, who’s never even been a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, says she was surprised to be asked to guest-host this week. Kimmel “was never a fan of mine,” she tells Variety, describing their past relationship as “adversarial.”