NBC has introduced that Wednesay star Jenna Ortega will make her SNL internet hosting debut in March.
Next month, Jenna Ortega will host Saturday Night Live. It has been introduced by NBC that Ortega will make her internet hosting debut on the sketch comedy sequence on the March 11 episode when she’ll be joined by musical visitor The 1975, marking the second look for the pop band. After the announcement, Ortega shared the information on Twitter whereas noting, “See you then.”
Also introduced to seem forward of Ortega and The 1975 can be Kansas City Chiefs participant Travis Kelce, which might be the athlete’s first time internet hosting, joined by musical visitor and fellow first-timer Kelsea Ballerini. That episode will air reside on March 4. It was beforehand introduced that the present would return to NBC on Feb. 25 with visitor host Woody Harrelson formally becoming a member of the present’s Five-Timers’ Club. Jack White is the musical visitor on that present.
Some of the opposite latest pairings on SNL to be characteristic this season embody Pedro Pascal and Coldplay; Michael B. Jordan and Lil Baby; Aubrey Plaza and Sam Smith; Austin Butler and Lizzo; and the group of Steve Martin and Martin Short co-hosting with Brandi Carlile as musical visitor.
Jenna Ortega Continues Her Hot Streak
As the titular lead of Netflix’s hit present Wednesday, Ortega appears to be certainly one of as we speak’s hottest stars. That present has been an amazing hit for Netflix, rising excessive as certainly one of its most-watched present within the streaming platform’s historical past. A second season is within the works, an Ortega will return as Wednesday Addams. Created by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough, the present serves as a reboot of The Addams Family with the spin of following an older Wednesday as she heads off to a particular college.
Ortega can be acknowledged from her numerous huge display roles, and that features becoming a member of the Scream franchise in final yr’s fifth movie. She’ll be again to reprise her position in Scream VI, which hits theaters on March 10. Last yr, Ortega additionally appeared within the style movies X and Studio 666. She additionally had a notable position within the second season of the Netflix sequence You, although she was unable to return for that present’s third season due to her commitments to Wednesday.
Catch Ortega internet hosting SNL on March 11, 2023, on NBC. The episode can be made out there for streaming on Peacock together with previous episodes of Saturday Night Live on March 12.