{"id":590730,"date":"2026-04-07T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590730\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T07:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:00:11","slug":"snl-star-chloe-finemans-interview-edited-after-backlash-from-co-stars-and-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590730\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL star Chloe Fineman\u2019s interview edited after backlash from co-stars and fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What was intended to be a lighthearted \u2018how well do you know me\u2019 game between Saturday Night Live co-stars quickly derailed, forcing Vanity Fair to edit their original interview footage following significant backlash. <\/p>\n<p>The publication sat Saturday Night Live stars Chloe Fineman, Mikey Day, Sarah Sherman, Ashley Padilla, Jane Wickline and James Austin Johnson down for a video, where they shared candid confessions from their past. <\/p>\n<p>It was all fairly tame until one moment where Fineman asks her co-stars to guess which job she was fired from as a 16-year-old. <\/p>\n<p>Her co-stars\u2019 guesses were what you\u2019d typically predict &#8211; getting fired from a waitress gig for a bad attitude being one of them. But what came next took the group by complete surprise. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"poster-img\" src=\"https:\/\/content.api.news\/v3\/images\/bin\/1c932842fed2f90f4d34ecaff8d2a033\" data-sctrack=\"op-poster-img\" alt=\"SNL star's interview re-edited after backlash\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was fired as a camp counsellor,\u201d Fineman shared in the video. \u201cI pantsed a boy.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Completely expecting their stunned reactions, she goes on to justify her actions &#8211; hoping it might sway them a little. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe would lift my shirt all the time. It was a different time. He would be like, \u2018Hey, could I have a hug?\u2019 And then I\u2019d go to hug him and he\u2019d lift my shirt, like a d*ck. And then I was like, \u2018I\u2019m going to get back at you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"poster-img\" src=\"https:\/\/content.api.news\/v3\/images\/bin\/572777dd81cba318c6a4d101c786c664\" data-sctrack=\"op-poster-img\" alt=\"Dirty Grandpa now streaming free on Tubi in Australia\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, the comedienne eventually got her revenge. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were on a hike and I was like, \u2018Hey, Ollie, go look over there. It\u2019s a hawk.\u2019 He looked and then I yanked his pants down, and then I was fired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stream Saturday Night Live now on <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/binge.com.au\/?extcamp=ncaeditoriallink-ptr-nca-lnk-awr-acq-var-bge&amp;channel=nca&amp;campaign=editorial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BINGE<\/a>, available on <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hubbl.com.au\/?utm_source=news.com.au&amp;utm_medium=Hubbl-text-links&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;utm_content=Story-page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hubbl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the clip shared by <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/?srsltid=AfmBOoqhp6F_FRMfXg5LtEHCO1WY40muuxFdtMAL8KeWZsdX00ZqGRk5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vanity Fair<\/a>, the group appeared completely shocked by the share &#8211; with Ashley Padilla even commenting: \u201cOh honey, I think you\u2019re on a list somewhere!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But that wasn\u2019t even the worst of it. The backlash from her co-stars was so intense, the publication felt the need to heavily edit the original conversation &#8211; carefully omitting some controversial details from the story. <\/p>\n<p>In the original video,<a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/delicaterocks\/status\/2040777694485291316\" rel=\"nofollow\"> shared on TikTok<\/a>, Fineman is heard giving more context to the pantsing incident. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wasn\u2019t wearing underpants and a giant school bus drove by \u2026\u201d she continued before Mikey Day chimed in asking the age of the said boy. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was like 6 \u2026\u201d she answered. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t wearing any underwear, his little ding-a-ling was out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Visibly mortified, Padilla gasps and hides her shocked face behind her cue cards. Beside her, Day buries his head in his hands as Fineman pushes forward with the story, leaving the rest of the cast to watch in stunned, uncomfortable silence.<\/p>\n<p>Fineman\u2019s story was met with some serious backlash from fans, too. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnytime you gotta say \u201cit was a different time\u201d maybe stop,\u201d one fan commented on <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/delicaterocks\/status\/2040777694485291316\" rel=\"nofollow\">TikTok<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s crazy how every new detail just makes it exponentially worse. What do you mean you pantsed a boy? What do you mean he wasn\u2019t wearing underwear? WHAT THE F**K DO YOU MEAN HE WAS SIX?!\u201danother mortified viewer shared. <\/p>\n<p>And another chimed in with: \u201cShe not only did it to a 6 year old, she still thinks is funny years later as an adult \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another viewer said they felt mostly for the co-stars who had to tone down their shocked reactions: \u201cThis is such a disturbing thing to admit in an interview and omg the uncomfortable laughter among the cast mates I feel so bad for them.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>While the edited version is still out there, Vanity Fair has kept Fineman\u2019s entire segment from the game off social media. <\/p>\n<p>Read related topics:<a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/binge\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"Binge\" data-tgev-order=\"1\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Binge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What was intended to be a lighthearted \u2018how well do you know me\u2019 game between Saturday Night Live&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[128917,64,63,288536,288535,288525,288102,288534,288528,134,288526,288530,288537,288527,136278,288532,6517,136283,254793,116592,288531,427,288529,38891,288533],"class_list":{"0":"post-590730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-ashley-padilla","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-candid-confessions","12":"tag-cast-mates","13":"tag-celebrity-impressions","14":"tag-chloe-fineman","15":"tag-controversial-details","16":"tag-cue-cards","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-giant-school-bus","19":"tag-host-back","20":"tag-incredible-celebrity-impressions","21":"tag-interview-footage","22":"tag-james-austin-johnson","23":"tag-jane-wickline","24":"tag-jimmy-fallon","25":"tag-mikey-day","26":"tag-ncaeditorialbinge","27":"tag-sarah-sherman","28":"tag-school-bus-drove","29":"tag-tv","30":"tag-uncomfortable-silence","31":"tag-vanity-fair","32":"tag-waitress-gig"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590730","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=590730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}