Bowen Yang is exiting Saturday Night Live (SNL) in the middle of his eighth season on the iconic sketch comedy show.
His final episode as a cast member will be this Saturday’s episode, hosted by his Wicked co-star Ariana Grande with Cher as musical guest, Variety reports.
Yang, 35, first joined SNL as part of the writing staff in September 2018 ahead of the show’s 44th season. A year later he became a cast member for the show’s 45th season.
The comedian teased an exit from SNL during an interview with People back in April.
“With SNL, like I said, it’s this growing, living thing where new people come in and you do have to sort of make way for them and to grow and to keep elevating themselves,” he said at the time. “And that inevitably requires me to sort of hang it up at some point — but I don’t know what the vision is yet.”
Yang’s work on SNL has earned him Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025. He was also nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series in 2019.
Yang becomes the latest cast member to leave midseason following Cecily Strong, who left the show in December 2022 during Season 48.
The announcement of Yang’s exit follows a major shakeup with several SNL stars revealing their departures from the hit series in September.
Devon Walker addressed his exit after three seasons in an Instagram post, writing, “Me and baby broke up.”
Walker’s post was followed by the announcement that Ego Nwodim, Emil Wakim, Michael Longfellow and Heidi Gardner will also not be returning to the show.
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Corey Haim’s mother, Judy Haim, is speaking out following Corey Feldman’s claim that her son molested him while making the 1987 film The Lost Boys.
Judy said in an interview with TMZ on Thursday that “there is no way in hell” her son, who died at 38 in 2010, ever molested Feldman.
Haim’s mother said Feldman, 54, was “creating another lie to poison people’s heads and keep himself relevant.”
She claimed that Feldman is making up lies about her son because “he doesn’t want people to focus on his own wrongdoings.”
Judy said that her son “liked women, not men” and said he would tell her, “I don’t care if someone is gay, but I am not gay or any of that stuff.”
She also claims that her son was “a one-woman man” who was “not into men.”
“Corey Feldman always talks about sex and blames my kid for things that he is not here to defend himself about,” Judy added. She said there are many reasons why Feldman’s claims “don’t add up.”
Judy said she was always on set with her son, including during The Lost Boys, and if she wasn’t with him, his sister or father was present. The family “didn’t leave him alone for a minute,” Judy added.
Feldman and Haim were well-known as close friends in the industry during the 1980s and into the ’90s. They were sometimes referred to as “the Coreys” in the pop-culture lexicon.
“Why would they be friends for so long if this happened? It doesn’t add up,” Judy said.
She called Feldman’s claims “so defamatory and hurtful to my son’s legacy” and said she is considering taking legal action against him.
Earlier this week, the former child actor, who starred in classic films like The Goonies and Stand By Me, made the allegations against his License to Drive co-star in Marcie Hume’s new documentary, Corey Feldman vs. The World.
“I was being molested by Corey Haim, truth be told,” Feldman alleged.
“When we did Lost Boys, Corey said to me, ‘Hey man, let’s mess around,'” Feldman alleged in the doc. “I said, ‘What do you mean?'”
Feldman alleged that Haim said it was “what guys in the business do.”
He went on to claim that Haim said men in the entertainment industry perform oral sex on each other and “do this stuff.”
“And I said, ‘What are you talking about? And he said, ‘Well, Charlie (Sheen) told me it was OK,’” Feldman alleged Haim said.
Feldman has previously accused Sheen of sexually assaulting Haim when they made the 1986 film Lucas. Sheen vehemently denied Feldman’s claims, calling them “sick, twisted, and outlandish allegations” that “never occurred. Period.”
Feldman has previously publicly stated that he was a victim of sexual abuse as a child.
As of this writing, Feldman has not responded to Judy Haim’s comments.
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Tennessee’s governor pardoned country singer Jelly Roll for his criminal past in the state on Thursday.
Gov. Bill Lee pardoned the Need a Favor singer for two robbery and drug felonies issued before 2010 in Davidson County.
Jelly Roll said a pardon would make it easier for him to travel internationally for concert tours and to perform Christian missionary work without filling out paperwork. He previously said that every time he travelled, it took “a team of lawyers and a mountain of paperwork to secure my entry” into countries like Canada and the United Kingdom.
He was one of 33 people to receive pardons Thursday from Lee, who has issued clemency decisions around the Christmas season for years.
Lee said Jelly Roll’s application underwent the same months-long thorough review as other applicants and the state parole board gave a non-binding, unanimous recommendation for his pardon in April, after a hearing that lasted about an hour and 45 minutes and involved several witnesses, including Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall, advocating for the musician.
“His story is remarkable, and it’s a redemptive, powerful story, which is what you look for and what you hope for,” Lee told reporters.
Hall, who runs Nashville’s jail, wrote that Jelly Roll had an awakening in one of the jails he managed.
“I think he has a chance and is in the process of rehabilitating a generation, and that’s not just words,” Hall told The Associated Press on Thursday. “I’m talking about what I see we need in our country, is people who accept responsibility, accept the fact that they make mistakes and accept the fact that they need help.”
A Tennessee pardon serves as a statement of forgiveness for someone who has already completed a prison sentence. Pardons offer a path to restoring certain civil rights, such as the right to vote, although there are some legal limitations, and the governor can specify the terms.
Jelly Roll’s most serious convictions include a robbery at age 17 and drug charges at 23. In the first case, a female acquaintance helped Jelly Roll and two armed accomplices steal US$350 from people in a home in 2002. Because the victims knew the female acquaintance, she and Jelly Roll were quickly arrested. Jelly Roll was unarmed and was sentenced to one year in prison plus probation.
In 2008, police found marijuana and crack cocaine in his car, leading to eight years of court-ordered supervision.
He also has two misdemeanour offences for driving without a licence and possession of drug paraphernalia.
The rapper-turned-singer, whose legal name is Jason Deford, has spoken about his redemption arc for years in front of various audiences, including people serving time in correctional centres, crowds at his concerts and even Congress.
Last year, the Somebody Save Me singer gave powerful testimony before Congress about the U.S. fentanyl problem, telling legislators he wants to be “part of the solution” for the opioid crisis.
“At every concert I perform, I witness the heartbreaking impact of fentanyl. I see fans grappling with this tragedy in the form of music … that they seek solace in music and hope that their experiences won’t befall others,” he said at the time.

Rapper Jelly Roll shares compelling testimony against fentanyl at U.S. Senate
“These are the people I’m here to speak for, y’all. These people crave reassurance that their elected officials actually care more about human life than they do about ideology and partisanship.”
— With files from The Associated Press
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Pete Davidson and girlfriend Elsie Hewitt are officially parents.
The Saturday Night Live alum and Hewitt welcomed their baby girl, Scottie Rose Hewitt Davidson, on Dec. 12, they announced on Thursday.
“Our perfect angel girl arrived 12/12/2025,” Hewitt, 29, captioned several photos of the new family. “My best work yet, i am absolutely overflowing with love and gratitude and disbelief.”
Hewitt added a quick message from Davidson, 32, writing: “wu tang forever.”
Davidson’s daughter’s first name appears to honour his late father, Scott Matthew Davidson, a New York City firefighter who died while responding to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The post included photos of Davidson and Hewitt with their baby. The couple kept Scottie’s face private by adding a white heart emoji over it in each photo.
“Who else had to get a wisdom tooth removed directly from hospital the day after they gave birth,” Hewitt wrote in a post on her Instagram stories.

Davidson and Hewitt announced they were expecting their first child together in July.
Hewitt confirmed the reports in an Instagram post, which included a picture of a sonogram alongside the jovial caption, “welp now everyone knows we had sex.”
Shortly after the couple announced the news, Davidson told E! News he felt “very lucky and very, very happy” about becoming a dad. He also noted that he was eager to “take care of something and show it the childhood I didn’t have.”
“I assume you just try to give them what you didn’t have,” he added.
According to People, the couple have been living together in Davidson’s native New York City for a few months.
“They’re splitting their time between Pete’s house in upstate New York and a brownstone they recently started renting in Brooklyn,” a source told the outlet in May. “They’re so happy together and doing great.”
The baby news came two months after the pair made their red carpet debut at the 13th Annual Blossom Ball at the Pierre Hotel in New York City.
The former Saturday Night Live cast member shared his desire to start a family during an appearance on Kevin Hart’s talk show, Hart to Heart, in 2022.
“My favourite thing ever, which I’ve yet to achieve, is I wanna have a kid,” Davidson said.
“It’s super corny, but it would be so fun to dress up a little dude.
“I’m so excited for that chapter so that’s kind of what I’m just preparing for now, is trying to be, like, good as a dude and develop and get better so when that happens, it’s just easier.”
— With files from Global News’ Rachel Goodman
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Feldman, the former child actor who starred in classic films like The Goonies and Stand By Me, made the allegations against his License to Drive co-star in Marcie Hume’s new documentary, Corey Feldman vs. The World.
“When we did Lost Boys, Corey said to me, ‘Hey man, let’s mess around,'” Feldman, 54, alleged in the doc. “I said, ‘What do you mean?'”
Feldman recalled Haim allegedly saying that it was “what guys in the business do.”
He went on to claim that Haim said men in the entertainment industry perform oral sex on each other and “do this stuff.”
“And I said, ‘What are you talking about?’ And he said, ‘Well, Charlie [Sheen] told me it was OK,'” Feldman alleged Haim said.
Feldman has previously accused Sheen of sexually assaulting Haim when they made the 1986 film Lucas. Sheen vehemently denied Feldman’s claims, calling them “sick, twisted, and outlandish allegations” that “never occurred. Period.”
“I called [Haim] and said, ‘Come over.’ But you know, when you have got somebody that’s trying to come onto you sexually, and you don’t want that, and you are a kid, and you are scared,” Feldman said in the doc. “You do whatever you can to stop it from happening, and that’s what was happening. I was being molested by Corey Haim, truth be told.”
Feldman and Haim were well-known as close friends in the industry during the 1980s and into the ’90s. They were sometimes referred to as “the Coreys” in pop-culture lexicon.
Feldman has previously publicly stated that he was a victim of sexual abuse as a child.
He filed a report with Los Angeles police in early November 2017 after publicly naming some of his alleged abusers while appearing on The Dr. Oz Show.
The Los Angeles Police Department previously said it dropped its investigation into Feldman’s claims that a pedophile ring had been victimizing young actors in Hollywood because too much time had passed since the alleged incidents.
In 2020, Feldman released a documentary titled (My) Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys, about him and the late Haim, who died at 38 in 2010 after a decades-long drug addiction. There was no mention of Haim abusing Feldman in the documentary.
In Feldman’s documentary, he claimed that Sheen raped Haim when Sheen was 19 and Haim was 13.
“This wasn’t like a one-time thing he said in passing. It wasn’t like, ‘Oh, by the way, this happened.’ He went into great detail,” Feldman said about Haim in the film.
In response to the claim, Sheen gave a statement to People denying that the assault ever happened.
“I would urge everyone to consider the source and read what his mother Judy Haim has to say,” Sheen said.
Judy Haim sat down with Dr. Oz for an interview in 2017 to discuss the allegations against Sheen. She told Oz that she didn’t see a major change in her son while he was shooting Lucas.
“I would have known if anything was wrong,” Haim said. “My kid hid nothing, he was like … transparent. He never hid anything, he was Corey. It’s out of character, that’s number one.”
“When my son was 13, he’s not going to go and ask Charlie Sheen to go and sleep with him,” she continued.
Judy Haim had previously referred to Feldman as “a scam artist” in 2017 after he announced a US$10-million fundraising campaign that was going toward making an exposé documentary about the alleged pedophile ring.
“He’s been talking about revealing the names of his and other abusers for seven years since my son died,” she said. “Now he wants $10 million to do it? Come on. It’s a long con. He’s a scam artist. If he was serious about this, he’d share the information he has with the police.”
According to Feldman, Corey Haim apparently had it far worse than him. Haim was abused more frequently and more severely, Feldman claims.
“He had more direct abuse than I did,” Feldman told the Hollywood Reporter in 2017. “With me, there were some molestations [sic] and it did come from several hands, so to speak, but with Corey, his was direct rape, whereas mine was not actual rape. And his also occurred when he was 11. My son is 11 now and I can’t even begin to fathom the idea of something like that happening to him. It would destroy his whole being.”
Feldman claims he and Haim were abused by the same network of child predators.
Haim’s mom doesn’t believe there is a “pedophilic ring” that exists in the industry. Rather, she believes there’s likely a series of isolated incidents involving much lower-level individuals.
“It’s disrespectful to sexual assault survivors and their loved ones in and out of the industry to get their hopes up about uncovering a massive conspiracy because he will not name names — ever,” she said. “And if these people really are out there, and potentially [still] a danger, why wouldn’t he want to name them right now?”
Feldman took to X to deny Judy Haim’s allegations at the time.
“U GUYS KNOW I DONT EVER SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT ANY1, BUT JUDY HAIM (no longer her last name) IS A BAD WOMAN WHO VEHEMENTLY PROTECTS EVIL!” Feldman wrote.
As of this writing, there has been no public statement regarding Feldman’s latest claims by Judy Haim or anyone affiliated with the Haims.
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