{"id":340446,"date":"2025-12-10T05:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340446\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T05:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:48:10","slug":"departing-snl-star-ego-nwodim-lands-big-awards-show-hosting-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340446\/","title":{"rendered":"Departing \u2018SNL\u2019 Star Ego Nwodim Lands Big Awards Show Hosting Gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ego Nwodim, who exited Saturday Night Live after seven seasons, is set to host the 2026 Film Independent Spirit Awards. The SNL alum\u2019s debut as an awards show host was announced on Tuesday. \u201cNo stage celebrates the incredible work of these visionary artists and independent creators everywhere quite like the Spirit Awards,\u201d Nwodim said in a <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/www.filmindependent.org\/blog\/tsiddahn-ego-nwodim-to-host-the-41st-film-independent-spirit-awards\/&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmindependent.org\/blog\/tsiddahn-ego-nwodim-to-host-the-41st-film-independent-spirit-awards\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a>. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to join Film Independent for an afternoon of fun, laughs, and a few surprises.\u201d The February 15 show will mark its 41st celebration of \u201cexcellence in independent film and television,\u201d according to the Film Independent\u2019s acting president, Brenda Robinson. After her shocking SNL exit in September, Nwodim said that it was \u201cnot the easiest place to work.\u201d The previous two Spirit Awards shows were hosted by another Saturday Night Live star, Aidy Bryant, who was a cast member from 2012 to 2022. Nominations for the upcoming show were announced last week, with the 2025 drama, Peter Hujar\u2019s Day, raking in the most nods at five.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-it-at-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/ego-nwodim-host-2026-film-independent-spirit-awards-1236445614\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read it at The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ego Nwodim, who exited Saturday Night Live after seven seasons, is set to host the 2026 Film Independent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,12015,12016],"class_list":{"0":"post-340446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-saturday-night-live","11":"tag-snl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}