Overview
- Chloe Fineman confirmed she will not return to Saturday Night Live after seven seasons in an Instagram post, calling her time on the show “the greatest privilege of my life.”
- She has been cast as Parker Quinn, a sports reporter, on David E. Kelley’s Netflix drama Myron Bolitar and production on the series is reported to start this week.
- Fineman said she told SNL creator Lorne Michaels she was leaving during the England vs. Argentina World Cup match on Wednesday and that they later had a cordial conversation.
- Tabloid reports that interpersonal tensions played a role in her departure have circulated but are based on unnamed sources and have been contradicted by other unnamed sources, leaving those claims unverified.
- Her move follows a familiar pattern of long-tenured SNL performers leaving for film and scripted TV, a change that will add to cast turnover ahead of the show’s next season.