Properly, we definitely didn’t anticipate Saturday Night time Reside relationship drama to get juicier AFTER Pete Davidson left!
You could have heard the unhappy information again in April that after over TEN YEARS of marriage, Kenan Thompson and his spouse Christina Evangeline had cut up up. Sources on the time truly mentioned that they had been over for some time however had stored it quiet. Heartbreaking information, particularly since they’ve two youngsters. However there was nothing scandalous about it… that we knew of on the time.
Nonetheless, a brand new piece of the puzzle was revealed on Tuesday. Christina’s new boyfriend is none aside from… Kenan’s co-star Chris Redd! Not solely have been Chris and Kenan on SNL collectively for 5 years, they spent the previous two enjoying brothers on Kenan’s eponymous NBC sitcom!
Um… what?! What’s going on?!?
In response to TMZ, who broke the information of the pairing, the couple turned official a while earlier this yr. However like Kenan and Christina’s separation, it’s been happening loads longer than anybody realized! The outlet’s sources insist there was NO OVERLAP. This isn’t a dishonest scenario. Chris has identified and been associates with Christina by way of Kenan for years, and there was by no means something happening. That’s what they are saying.
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However nonetheless… it’s undoubtedly a violation of the Bro Code or one thing, proper? You may’t hook up with a pal’s LONGTIME ex and anticipate to remain associates… proper??
Properly, Kenan and Chris don’t should. Kenan the present was canceled by NBC in Might. Attention-grabbing timing on that, isn’t it? June is when Kenan the person canceled his marriage, lastly formally submitting for divorce.
And don’t fear about these two having an ungainly debacle on the set of SNL both. Chris dropped the shock announcement simply final week that he was leaving the present after 5 years. He wrote in an announcement:
“Being part of SNL has been the expertise of a lifetime. 5 years in the past, I walked into 30 Rock figuring out that this was a tremendous alternative for progress. Now, with associates who’ve develop into household and recollections I’ll cherish eternally, I’m grateful to Lorne Michaels and to your entire SNL group. From the underside of my coronary heart, I can’t thanks all sufficient.”
Very gracious.
Nonetheless…
Half of the forged members who have been leaving (Pete Davidson, Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney, and Kate McKinnon) have been identified earlier than the final season ended. One other massive group (Alex Moffat, Melissa Villaseñor, and Aristotle Athari) have been introduced a pair weeks in the past. After which this announcement, all by its lonesome. The odd one out. And proper after, that’s when it comes out these two are a pair?
Is it doable it was this battle that brought about Chris to cede the territory? So long as Kenan was with Christina, he’s been married to SNL twice as lengthy. He’s truly acquired the report for longest tenure within the sketch present’s historical past at 20 seasons. If both of them was going to go, it needed to be Chris, proper? That’s… if it was his resolution. Who is aware of, proper?
TMZ‘s sources say no, it’s all on the up-and-up and everybody is okay, with no dangerous blood wherever to be discovered right here. They are saying Chris is leaving the present as a result of he’s too busy with different initiatives…
“Different initiatives” has been the official reasoning for lots of rumored Hollywood rifts, so…
However what do Y’ALL suppose?? Weigh in together with your ideas on the sketchy scenario within the feedback (under)!
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