{"id":140323,"date":"2025-09-13T14:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T14:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/140323\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T14:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T14:16:09","slug":"frankie-muniz-turned-down-saturday-night-live-hosting-offer-to-pursue-celebrity-crush-frankie-muniz-saturday-night-live-just-jared-celebrity-news-and-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/140323\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankie Muniz Turned Down \u2018Saturday Night Live\u2019 Hosting Offer to Pursue Celebrity Crush | Frankie Muniz, Saturday Night Live | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/frankie-muniz\/\" title=\"Frankie Muniz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frankie Muniz<\/a> is making a confession about the early days of his career! <\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old actor was offered the chance to be among the youngest hosts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/saturday-night-live\/\" title=\"Saturday Night Live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Live<\/a> in 2000 when he was 14-years-old. Despite being offered such a major honor, Frankie says he turned it down for a very relatable reason. <\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Frankie was a guest on the September 2 episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bTmlo1Xo_3k\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lightweights Podcast<\/a> where he said he chose the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/nickelodeon\/\" title=\"Nickelodeon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nickelodeon<\/a> Kids\u2019 Choice Awards over hosting SNL. According to Frankie, his celebrity crush <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/amanda-bynes\/\" title=\"Amanda Bynes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Bynes<\/a> was one of the co-hosts, so the choice was simple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, \u2018I\u2019m gonna meet Amanda Bynes!\u2019 Huge deal. So I\u2019m so excited, like \u2018this is my chance,\u2019\u201d Frankie said, revealing he had a \u201chuge crush\u201d on Amanda at the time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Frankie said that after he turned down the SNL hosting gig, his mother received calls from producers over and over asking if he was serious about turning them down. He said he stood his ground, determined to meet Amanda.<\/p>\n<p>The two of them went on to star in the 2002 movie Big Fat Liar. After turning down the chance to host SNL, Frankie wasn\u2019t invited again. <\/p>\n<p>If you missed it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/08\/22\/ashlee-simpson-says-bully-was-insane-while-reflecting-on-saturday-night-live-lip-syncing-mishap\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">another 2000s star recently opened up about their experience on SNL<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frankie Muniz is making a confession about the early days of his career! The 39-year-old actor was offered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-140323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}