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\n Soon there will be no need to turn back time, as Cher<\/a> is set return to the \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d stage.\n <\/p>\n \n The Oscar-, Emmy- and Grammy-winner is set to be the musical guest on the December 20 episode of the long-running NBC sketch show, according to the network, which on Monday announced the final hosts and musical guests of 2025. \u201cWicked: For Good<\/a>\u201d star Ariana Grande will host the episode.\n <\/p>\n \n Cher last appeared as the musical guest on \u201cSNL\u201d just ahead of Thanksgiving 1987, 38 years ago.\n <\/p>\n \n In the time since, she has returned to \u201cSNL\u201d in a cameo capacity on multiple occasions, most recently in 2011.\n <\/p>\n \n Earlier this year, the \u201cBelieve\u201d singer performed as part of the \u201cSNL50: The Homecoming Concert\u201d to mark the classic comedy revue\u2019s 50th anniversary.\n <\/p>\n \n Other hosts helping \u201cSNL\u201d to close out the year include Melissa McCarthy, hosting on December 6 with musical guest Dijon, and \u201cChallengers\u201d actor Josh O\u2019Connor, hosting the December 13 episode. Joining O\u2019Connor as the musical guest that weekend is singer-songwriter Lily Allen, whose most recent album \u201cWest End Girl\u201d has been making headlines<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d airs on NBC on Saturdays at 11:30 pm ET.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/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.celebrity.land.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Soon there will be no need to turn back time, as Cher is set return to the \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d stage. The Oscar-, Emmy- and Grammy-winner is set to be the musical guest on the December 20 episode of the long-running NBC sketch show, according to the network, which on Monday announced the final hosts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2162728,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2162727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018SNL-books-Cher-as-musical-guest-for-the-first-time.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162727","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=2162727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162729,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162727\/revisions\/2162729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2162728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}