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Glen Powell\u2019s debut as Saturday Night Live<\/em> host finally occurred after four years in the making\u2014and for four years, a UPS driver who delivered to his house wondered if he was making it all up.<\/p>\n But the actor removed all doubts by inviting the driver to Studio 8H and bringing him up on stage.<\/p>\n More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Powell, the co-star of 2022\u2019s Top Gun: Maverick<\/em>, had been offered the hosting role for SNL<\/em>\u2018s Christmas show in 2021. When he got the news, he said, a UPS driver had just pulled up, and Powell and his family celebrated by taking a group photo with him.<\/p>\n But when the film got pushed back due to Covid, Powell said, executive producer Lorne Michaels told him: \u201cWithout Top Gun<\/em>, no one will know who the f\u2014 you are.\u201d And the invitation was pulled.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, I didn\u2019t end up hosting. Which means for four years, this UPS driver was going around saying Glen Powell is a liar,\u201d he said. What feels even better than hosting, he added, is \u201cproving that I am not crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n Powell, 37, then explained how Mitch ended up in the studio audience.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is real: my sisters tracked him down\u2014because the women in my family are terrifying\u2014and they found the cell number of this guy,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd to prove to Mitch that I\u2019m not a liar, I flew him all the way to New York\u2014coach. I don\u2019t know how Running Man<\/em> is going to do, yet.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe thought it was a scam, but he still came,\u201d the Texas native said. \u201cAnd he is sitting in the audience tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n The two then recreated the picture they took years ago.<\/p>\n \u201cI had to wait my entire life plus four years to be here, but if I know anything, it\u2019s that the best things in life don\u2019t happen overnight,\u201d Powell joked. \u201cAnd no one knows that better than UPS.\u201d<\/p>\n Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Glen Powell\u2019s debut as Saturday Night Live host finally occurred after four years in the making\u2014and for four years, a UPS driver who delivered to his house wondered if he was making it all up. But the actor removed all doubts by inviting the driver to Studio 8H and bringing him up on stage. More […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2159846,"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":[25172],"tags":[310317,314737,413941],"class_list":["post-2159845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-glen-powell","tag-rolling-stone","tag-ups-driver"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Glen-Powell-Goes-the-Extra-Mile-to-Prove-Hes-\u2018Not.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159845","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=2159845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159847,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159845\/revisions\/2159847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2159846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}