{"id":74433,"date":"2025-10-12T20:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T20:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/74433\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T20:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T20:50:15","slug":"watch-charli-xcx-make-a-surprise-appearance-at-role-models-saturday-night-live-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/74433\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Charli XCX make a surprise appearance at Role Model\u2019s \u2018Saturday Night Live\u2019 performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charli XCX<\/a> made a surprise appearance during Role Model\u2019s Saturday Night Live<\/a> performance \u2013 check out footage of the moment below.<\/p>\n

Last night (October 11), the musician \u2013 real name Tucker Pillsbury \u2013 made his debut as musical guest and performed \u2018Some Protector\u2019 and \u2018Sally, When the Wine Runs Out\u2019, and, as is tradition in a Role Model set, a special guest was invited to join him on stage for the song.<\/p>\n

Usually, it\u2019s a fan from the audience, although Conan Grey<\/a>, Rene\u00e9 Rapp<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0SNL\u2018s own Bowen Yang have also made the cut. On Saturday night, viewers were surprised by the addition of Charli as his Sally.<\/p>\n

It follows the two joking on social media about faux Sally girl drama<\/a>, after Pillsbury had her former \u2018Sweat Tour\u2019 co-headliner Troye Sivan<\/a> join him onstage. Referring to her now husband, George Daniels<\/a>, he\u2019d quipped: \u201cYou can have [Sivan] back if you give me George.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charli herself hosted SNL for the first time last year, where she pulled double duty as a musical guest, performing \u2018Brat<\/a>\u2018 tracks \u2018360\u2019 and \u2018Sympathy Is a Knife\u2019.<\/p>\n

Fans have been speculating that the latter track \u2013 in which she sings: \u201cDon\u2019t know if I\u2019m spiralling \/ One voice tells me that they laugh \/ George says I\u2019m just paranoid\u00a0\/\u00a0Don\u2019t wanna see her backstage at my boyfriend\u2019s show \/ Fingers crossed behind my back \/ I hope they break up real quick\u201d \u2013 has now been answered by an apparent\u00a0Taylor Swift<\/a> diss track.<\/p>\n

Swift released her 12th studio album\u00a0\u2018The Life Of A Showgirl\u2019<\/a>\u00a0on Friday (October 3), the follow-up to last year\u2019s\u00a0\u2018The Tortured Poets Department\u2019<\/a>, and of the 12 new songs, none has been dissected quite as closely as \u2018Actually Romantic\u2019.<\/p>\n

The song is widely rumoured to be a diss track directed<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0Charli, with many fans interpreting the lyrics to the song as a swipe at the singer. \u201cI heard you call me \u2018Boring Barbie\u2019 when the coke\u2019s got you brave,\u201d Swift sings. \u201cHigh-fived my ex and then said you\u2019re glad he ghosted me \/ Wrote me a song saying it makes you sick to see my face \/ Some people might be offended \/ But it\u2019s actually sweet.\u201d<\/p>\n

This line stuck out to fans upon the track\u2019s release, given Charli\u2019s marriage to The 1975<\/a> drummer Daniel, while Swift was in a brief relationship with the band\u2019s frontman Matty Healy<\/a>\u00a0in 2023.<\/p>\n

Swift has since said \u2018Actually Romantic\u2019<\/a>\u00a0is \u201ca song about realising that someone else has kind of had a one-sided, adversarial relationship with you that you didn\u2019t know about. And all of a sudden they start doing too much and they start letting you know that actually, you\u2019ve been living in their head rent-free and you had no idea.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charli XCX made a surprise appearance during Role Model\u2019s Saturday Night Live performance \u2013 check out footage of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69,4913],"class_list":["post-74433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74433","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=74433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}