The Bear star Ayo Edebiri hosting Saturday Night Live with Jennifer Lopez as the musical guest, is the current hot topic in Hollywood. Why? Well, because the SNL appearance came four years after Edebiri made some awkward comments about Lopez’s decadeslong singing career.
During her 2020 appearance on the Scam Goddess podcast, Ayo Edebiri quite openly claimed the Grammy nominee Jennifer Lopez’s career was “one long scam”. And now four years later, during her SNL sketch, Edebiri touched upon her previous comments about Lopez, with major sarcasm.
Ayo Edebiri Claimed Jennifer Lopez’s Career Was a Scam
Back in 2020, appearing on the Scam Goddess podcast, the Irish actress Ayo Edebiri dropped some controversial comments about Grammy nominee Jennifer Lopez. Quite openly, Edebiri attacked Lopez’s longstanding musical career and publicly called it a scam. “She thinks she’s on multiple tracks, but it’s not her,” Edebiri claimed.
Referring to the rumor of Jennifer Lopez using ghost singers to record her popular music, Ayo Edebiri slammed the singer for stealing credits from the deserving. During the podcast, Edebiri noted that although Lopez considers herself good, it’s actually her ghost singers who are building her career, and the singer has nothing to do with it.
“I think she thinks that she’s still good even though she’s not singing for most of these songs.”
Further, the actress who recently won her first Emmy, previously admitted to being fascinated with Lopez’s career and “read up on” controversial theories that she rarely sang in her tracks. “A lot of the write-ups of the songs will be like, ‘J. Lo didn’t have time to make it to the studio,’ like, ‘J. Lo was busy,’. It’s like, ‘Doing what?’ Not singing, obviously!!” Edebiri noted.
Following these remarks, most netizens rallied behind Ayo Edebiri for speaking the truth. Later on, neither the actress nor the singer spoke further on the diss. Eventually, it subsided, until Edebiri was hired to host SNL alongside Jennifer Lopez as a musical guest in 2024.
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Ayo Edebiri Sarcastically Addressed Her 2020 Comments at SNL
Appearing on the February 3 episode of SNL, Ayo Edebiri marked her hosting debut. But unfortunately, her first time turned into an awkward situation as she was paired with Jennifer Lopez, whom she dissed back in 2020. However, Edebiri handled the show quite flawlessly and proved her incredible talent.
Proving to be more than capable of bringing her quick delivery and comedic timing, Ayo Edebiri even turned the cold SNL sketch into a funny one. Recalling her controversial comments from the Scam Goddess podcast about Jennifer Lopez, Edebiri personally poked fun at her to ease the situation.
“Ok. Ok. We get it. It’s wrong to leave mean comments, or post comments, or run your mouth on a podcast & you don’t consider the impact because you’re 24 & stupid. But I think I speak for everyone when I say, from now on, we’re gonna be a lot more thoughtful about what we post online.”
Hinting at her previous comments about Jennifer Lopez with utmost sarcasm, Ayo Edebiri stole hearts once again, with her witty humor and honesty. Online troops yet again rallied behind Edebiri to show their support as the actress poked fun at herself during her SNL sketch.
