{"id":2016898,"date":"2025-09-12T15:33:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2016898"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:33:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:33:04","slug":"ego-nwodim-leaving-snl-after-7-years-before-season-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ego-nwodim-leaving-snl-after-7-years-before-season-51\/","title":{"rendered":"Ego Nwodim leaving &#8216;SNL&#8217; after 7 years before Season 51"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F09%2FUntitled-1-copy-6.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Another one bites the dust.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the cast shakeups at \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d ahead of the Season 51 premiere, Ego Nwodim announced her exit after seven years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Nwodim, 37, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOgawKMDWf2\/\">posted on her Instagram<\/a>, \u201cthe hardest part of a great party is knowing when to say goodnight. But after seven unforgettable seasons, I have decided to leave \u2018SNL.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She thanked longtime \u201cSNL\u201d mastermind Lorne Michaels, 80, \u201cfor the opportunity\u201d and thanked the cast, crew, and writers \u201cfor their brilliance, support, and friendship.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The comedian concluded her message by writing, \u201cWeek after week on that stage taught me more than I could have ever imagined, and I will carry those memories (and that laughter) with me always.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>After a praying hands and kiss emoji, she signed off by saying, \u201cnow invite me to your weddings please!\u201d seemingly to her fellow cast mates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fellow comedian Amber Ruffin replied in a comment, \u201cCongratulations! As long as I can still watch you perform, I\u2019m good.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another one bites the dust. Amid the cast shakeups at \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d ahead of the Season 51 premiere, Ego Nwodim announced her exit after seven years.\u00a0 On Friday, Nwodim, 37, posted on her Instagram, \u201cthe hardest part of a great party is knowing when to say goodnight. But after seven unforgettable seasons, I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2016899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[21787,21741,21890,22335,21913],"class_list":["post-2016898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-celebrity-social-media","tag-entertainment","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-snl","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ego-Nwodim-leaving-SNL-after-7-years-before-Season-51.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}