SNL Shakes Up Its Cast

Saturday Night Live will look a bit different for its upcoming 50th season. The show has announced three new "featured players," while three others are leaving, reports Deadline.

• Leaving: Chloe Troast, a featured player last season, won't return for a second season. "Unfortunately I was not asked back to SNL," she wrote on Instagram. "I wish I was going back to be with all the amazing friends I made there, it truly felt like home. But it wasn't in the cards." Molly Kearney and Punkie Johnson previously announced they were leaving, per People.

• Arriving: Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim, and Jane Wickline are joining the staff as featured players. Padilla made her name with the Groundlings, Wakim as a standup comic, and Wickline on the live TikTok show Stapleview, per Variety.
• Promoted: Marcello Hernandez, Michael Longfellow, and Devon Walker have been promoted from being featured players to the main cast.

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