'Saturday Night Live': Alex Moffat, Melissa Villaseñor and Aristotle Athari Exit Ahead of Season 48
02.09.2022 - 00:31
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is losing three more cast members. Alex Moffat, Melissa Villaseñor and Aristotle Athari will not return for the sketch series' 48th season.Moffat and Villaseñor both joined the show as featured players in 2016, and were promoted to the main cast two years later. Athari joined the show last season as a featured player.The latest exits come after multiple cast members revealed their departure from the series. Pete Davidson left the show in May after seven seasons. «I owe [executive producer] Lorne Michaels and everyone at my life.
I'm so grateful and I wouldn’t be here without them. I appreciate you guys always having my back and sticking up for me even when that wasn’t the popular opinion,» Davidson wrote on Instagram at the time.
«Thank you for always believing in me and sticking by my side even when it seemed comical. Thank you for teaching me life values, how to grow up and for giving me memories that will last a lifetime.»Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant and Kyle Mooney exited the series shortly thereafter.
It's a decision Bryant told she would've made years earlier if not for the COVID-19 pandemic.«If it weren’t for COVID, I probably would have left a few years earlier. But it was such a huge change.
When COVID hit, it was so jarring that we were all like, 'I’m definitely going to come back next year.' And then I had to shoot for half of last season, and so I missed a lot,» Bryant explained. «And then it was like, 'Well, now I should go back one more.'»«I kept trying to seek one last normal year,» she added. «This year wasn’t the normal year that I hoped for, but it was closer to that. It was like, 'OK, it’s really time now.' And 10 felt like a nice, solid round number.»Elsewhere, during an appearance on, McKinnon revealed
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