{"id":367233,"date":"2026-04-07T03:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/367233\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T03:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:48:13","slug":"snl-star-chloe-fineman-under-fire-for-revealing-she-pantsed-6-year-old-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/367233\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;SNL&#8217; star Chloe Fineman under fire for revealing she pantsed 6-year-old kid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d star Chloe Fineman is facing backlash for a wild story she told in a Vanity Fair video that has since been edited by the publication.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x016TmuSN6c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">March 31 video<\/a>, titled \u201c\u2018SNL\u2019 Cast Test How Well They Know Each Other,\u201d\u00a0begins with Fineman asking her co-stars Mikey Day, Sarah Sherman, Ashley Padilla, Jane Wickline and James Austin Johnson if they know what job she was fired from and rehired by when she was 16.<\/p>\n<p>The comedians threw out multiple guesses, including that she made a racially insensitive comment and was let go from a restaurant or retail job.<\/p>\n<p>Chloe Fineman revealed in a new Vanity Fair video that she pantsed a 6-year-old boy when she was a teen camp counselor. Rosalind O&#8217;Connor\/NBC<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSNL\u201d star (seen above at the Vanity Fair Oscars after-party in March) said she was fired for the incident, which shocked her co-stars. WireImage<\/p>\n<p>But Fineman, 37, revealed that she \u201cwas fired as a camp counselor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Day, 46, asked Fineman if she was \u201chitting on the campers,\u201d she clarified, \u201cNo. I pantsed a boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe would lift my shirt all the time,\u201d Fineman explained. \u201cIt 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\u2013k. And then I was like, \u2018I\u2019m going to get back at you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fineman continued, \u201cAnd so we 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>Fineman (pictured above on \u201cSNL\u201d) called the 6-year-old a \u201cd\u2013k\u201d and said he\u2019d \u201clift my shirt up all the time.\u201d Esther Kuhn\/NBC<\/p>\n<p>The comedian, who is pictured above in an \u201cSNL\u201d skit, got backlash for the story. Nora Rockwell\/NBC<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/chloe-fineman-video-pantsing-boy-vanity-fair-1236709346\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Variety<\/a>, Vanity Fair edited out several bits and pieces from Fineman\u2019s story, including when she said that the boy was 6 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Fineman also told her co-stars in the original video that the camper\u2019s \u201cding-a-ling was out,\u201d to which Padilla replied, \u201cOh, honey, I think you\u2019re on a list somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wasn\u2019t wearing underpants, and then a giant school bus drove by,\u201d\u00a0Fineman also said in the original video.<\/p>\n<p>Vanity Fair has edited out bits and pieces of the video, including when Fineman (seen above at the \u201cDespicable Me 4\u201d premiere in June 2024) said the camper was 6 years old. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Fineman saying that the boy\u2019s \u201cding-a-ling was out\u201d was also edited out of the video. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>In the YouTube comments, viewers scrutinized Fineman for her story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChloe doing her funny voice while she describes exposing a child\u2019s genitals was quite upsetting,\u201d one fan wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure why in this current climate, Chloe thought that would be a funny story to share or why VF would air it,\u201d another fan said.<\/p>\n<p>One fan said that Fineman\u2019s (seen above at New York Fashion Week in February 2025) story was \u201cquite upsetting.\u201d Getty Images for Tory Burch<\/p>\n<p>Another fan said the comedian\u2019s story shouldn\u2019t be \u201cbrushed off\u201d (Fineman is pictured above at Vogue World: Hollywood 2025). Getty Images for Vogue<\/p>\n<p>A third person wrote, \u201cThat was a really bad story to put out there and to be so open about the kiddo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cok so chloe fineman just publicly admitted to exposing a 6 year old\u2019s genitals and we\u2019re just gonna brush it off?\u201d a different fan said.<\/p>\n<p>Page Six has reached out to Vanity Fair and Fineman\u2019s rep for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d star Chloe Fineman is facing backlash for a wild story she told in a Vanity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,5123,117719,156,111,139,69,45415,64340],"class_list":{"0":"post-367233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-celebrity-news","10":"tag-comedians","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-snl","16":"tag-vanity-fair"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}