{"id":2511439,"date":"2026-07-21T19:43:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2511439"},"modified":"2026-07-21T19:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:43:23","slug":"leslie-jones-picks-up-oompa-loompa-sheinelle-jones-while-roasting-her-live-on-today-she-is-so-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/leslie-jones-picks-up-oompa-loompa-sheinelle-jones-while-roasting-her-live-on-today-she-is-so-small\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Jones Picks Up \u2018Oompa-Loompa\u2019 Sheinelle Jones While Roasting Her Live on \u201cToday\u201d: \u2018She Is So Small\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"heading\">NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>Leslie Jones had fun demonstrating the 13-inch height difference between her and Sheinelle Jones on <em>Today with<\/em><em>Jenna and Sheinelle<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>The comedian was promoting her new HGTV series, <em>Roast My Rental<\/em>, and got distracted by how \u201csmall\u201d Sheinelle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>\u201cWe have lost our minds here in the studio!\u201d she said as Jenna Bush Hager struggled to keep her composure<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/leslie-jones\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Leslie Jones<\/a> put her roasting skills to the test in unexpected ways on the <em>Today<\/em> show.<\/p>\n<p>The comedian, 58, appeared on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UlOHSBG_wbk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Today with Jenna &amp; Sheinelle<\/em><\/a> on Tuesday, July 21, to promote her new HGTV series,<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/leslie-jones-transforms-disgusting-vacation-rentals-into-dream-stays-on-new-hgtv-series-exclusive-12014466\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Roast My Rental<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>in which she<!-- -->visits the country\u2019s worst short-term rentals and, after giving a brutally honest review, helps transform the properties.<\/p>\n<p>After she demonstrated her ability to roast anything for co-hosts <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/sheinelle-jones\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sheinelle Jones<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/jenna-bush-hager\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Jenna Bush Hager<\/a> \u2014\u00a0including one of the Studio 1A team members \u2014 the former <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> star got distracted.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie pulled Sheinelle to stand next to her and jokingly called her an \u201cOopma-Loompa\u201d as she pointed out their height difference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGirl!\u201d Leslie said as Sheinelle took her shoes off to further demonstrate the 13-inch height difference. As Bush Hager laughed, Leslie picked Sheinelle up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is so small!\u201d Leslie said to the cameras as Sheinelle, 48, tried to jump on her back.<\/p>\n<p>The end of the segment got fully derailed as Sheinelle and Leslie kept joking while Bush Hager tried to segue to an ad break.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have lost our minds here in the studio!\u201d Leslie joked.<\/p>\n<p>Before her antics with Sheinelle, Leslie explained that the new series was filmed very much in the moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey never tell me how it looks,\u201d she said of the properties she visited. \u201cI walk in, it\u2019s straight off the top.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"content-figure flex justify-center mb-[1em] mx-auto\">\n<div style=\"max-width:1280px\">\n<div class=\"content-image\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"fig-caption\">\n<p>Leslie Jones, Sheinelle Jones and Jenna Bush Hager on \u2018Today with Jenna and Sheinelle\u2019Credit: The Today Show<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">PEOPLE\u2019s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/p>\n<p>She named \u201ccarpet in the bathroom\u201d and \u201cdirty kitchens\u201d as among the worst things she saw during the filming process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest thing was cleanliness. A lot of people are nose blind \u2014 they don\u2019t smell the nastiness,\u201d she revealed. \u201cThat\u2019s the first thing that hits you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Roast My Rental <\/em>premieres Friday, July 24, at 10 p.m. ET on HGTV.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/leslie-jones-picks-up-sheinelle-jones-roasting-live-today-show-12023800\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\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 www.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW Leslie Jones had fun demonstrating the 13-inch height difference between her and Sheinelle Jones on Today withJenna and Sheinelle The comedian was promoting her new HGTV series, Roast My Rental, and got distracted by how \u201csmall\u201d Sheinelle \u201cWe have lost our minds here in the studio!\u201d she said as Jenna Bush Hager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2511441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2511439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Leslie-Jones-Picks-Up-\u2018Oompa-Loompa-Sheinelle-Jones-While-Roasting-Her.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511439","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=2511439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511442,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511439\/revisions\/2511442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2511441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2511439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2511439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2511439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}