{"id":180433,"date":"2025-08-27T18:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/180433\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T18:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:54:10","slug":"snl-parts-ways-with-emil-wakim-amid-rumored-season-51-cast-shakeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/180433\/","title":{"rendered":"‘SNL’ Parts Ways With Emil Wakim Amid Rumored Season 51 Cast Shakeup"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tShakeups in the Saturday Night Live<\/a> cast continue to trickle out as Emil Wakim, who joined the series for its 50th season last year, won\u2019t be returning for Season 51.<\/p>\n

\n\tWakim revealed he was one-and-done at the long-running, late-night show in a statement posted on social media Wednesday. \u201cI won\u2019t be returning to SNL<\/a> next year. It was a gut punch of a call to get but i\u2019m so grateful for my time there,\u201d Wakim wrote, adding he learned of his dismissal while celebrating a friend\u2019s birthday at a Six Flags amusement park.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEvery time I scanned into the building I would think how insane it is to get to work there. It was the most terrifying, thrilling, and rewarding experience of my life and I will miss it dearly and all the brilliant people that work there that made it feel like a home. Thank u to Lorne [Michaels] for taking a chance on me and changing my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWakim was one of three new cast members, along with Jane Wickline and Ashley Padilla, that SNL brought in ahead of its 50th anniversary season. During his short tenure on the show, Wakim portrayed the likes of Luigi Mangione, Julius Caesar, and Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, as well as appeared as himself on Weekend Update.<\/p>\n

\n\tAhead of the upcoming 51st season, Michaels hinted in a recent interview that massive cast upheaval \u2014 which was delayed in order to limit \u201cdisruptions\u201d for the SNL 50 specials \u2014 could be in the works. (Writers Rosebud Baker and Celeste Yim already said they won\u2019t be returning.)<\/p>\n

\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n

\n\tDevon Walker, a three-season SNL vet, announced Tuesday that he was exiting the show<\/a>, though it was unclear whether his departure was the show\u2019s decision, his own decision, or mutual. \u201cMe and the show did three years together, and sometimes it was really cool. Sometimes it was toxic as hell. But we did what we made the most of what it was, even amidst all of the dysfunction. We made a fucked up lil family,\u201d Walker wrote on social media.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for when the major Season 51 changes are coming \u2014 there\u2019s already rumors of a new Weekend Update desk<\/a> \u2014 Michaels told Puck<\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019ll be announced in a week or so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakeups in the Saturday Night Live cast continue to trickle out as Emil Wakim, who joined the series…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":180434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[171,1747,1933,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-180433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-saturday-night-live","10":"tag-snl","11":"tag-tv","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115102251722070084","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}