Chloe Fineman has announced she is leaving Saturday Night Live after seven years.<\/p>\n
The popular cast member revealed the news in a lengthy post shared on social media, describing her stint with the iconic late-night sketch comedy show as \u201cthe greatest privilege\u201d of her life.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter 7 wonderful seasons at SNL I have decided it\u2019s time for my next chapter,\u201d the Instagram post began.<\/p>\n
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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s cliche to say this but working at SNL has been the greatest privilege of my life. I still can\u2019t really believe I got to be a part of it. I fell in love with the place the second I walked through the door.\u201d<\/p>\n The 37-year-old reflected on the ups and downs of the job and the people she go to work with along the way.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery day I was lucky enough to be surrounded by the best people in the business, and I was constantly amazed watching them work. Sewing a jojo Siwa costume in 10 hours,\u201d the caption continued.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m definitely not the first to make this observation but it really is funny looking back at it all now, because at the show you get so invested in everything you work on.<\/p>\n \u201cYou sob uncontrollably when your sketch isn\u2019t picked. You storm into a producer\u2019s office telling them they just made the biggest mistake of their lives.<\/p>\n \u201cYou call everyone you know to complain. And then you look back a few years later and it was a sketch called \u2018lipstick for thicc dogs.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cBut that\u2019s just the show. You respect it so much that you give it absolutely everything you have even when it\u2019s incredibly stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite saying her departure is the right move, the actress conceded walking away from the late-night show and its team was not an easy decision to make.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s really hard to leave SNL but it does feel like the right time. I\u2019m going to miss it a lot,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n \u201cBut the people who work there are my family and that place is my home, and I know I\u2019ll never be too far away.\u201d<\/p>\n Fineman\u2019s heartfelt words were accompanied by a carousel of photos capturing her time on set and behind the scenes over the years.<\/p>\n Shared snaps show her with celebrities such as Ariana Grande and Glen Powell, with a photo of her topless wearing a latex cast over her breasts appearing on the final slide.<\/p>\n Her departure comes ahead of the sketch comedy\u2019s 52nd season after another Saturday Night Live cast member, Bowen Yang, announced his exit from the show after seven seasons.<\/p>\n Fineman joined the series as a featured player in 2019 before being promoted to the main cast two years later.<\/p>\n Throughout her run, she earned acclaim for celebrity impressions including Jennifer Coolidge, Drew Barrymore, Britney Spears, Nicole Kidman and Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, while becoming a regular fixture in the show\u2019s live sketches and pre-recorded comedy segments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chloe Fineman has announced she is leaving Saturday Night Live after seven years. The popular cast member revealed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,2331,134],"class_list":["post-805276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-culture","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805276","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=805276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}