SNL<\/a> debut on their respective episodes, while Abrams will return for the first time since making her debut in December 2024. Rosal\u00eda last appeared as a musical guest on the series in March 2022, just before the release of her acclaimed third album, Motomami. <\/p>\n\n\tOn the host side, Johnson and Gillis will both notch their third time leading the night, while Brunson and Navarrette will take the stage for the first time. <\/p>\n
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\n\tSeason 52 will see the departure of longtime Saturday Night Live cast member Chloe Fineman, who leave the series after seven seasons. \u201cIt\u2019s really hard to leave SNL but it does feel like the right time. I\u2019m going to miss it a lot,\u201d Fineman said earlier this year. \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
\n\tThe writers room has also lost Martin Herlihy, a member of the sketch comedy trio Please Don\u2019t Destroy, who leaves the show after five seasons. Any new additions to the SNL crew have not yet been announced. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The series returns on Sept. 26 with Brunson and Kasteye, followed by appearances from Dakota Johnson, Shane Gillis,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[23029,156,19849,152435,82683,111,139,69,289079,8804,45415,112776,437],"class_list":["post-595366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-dakota-johnson","tag-entertainment","tag-gracie-abrams","tag-inde-navarrette","tag-katseye","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rosalu00eda","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-snl","tag-turnstile","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595366","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=595366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}