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Saturday Night Live UK host Ania Magliano targets Shane Gillis on Weekend Update

Saturday Night Live UK co-host Ania Magliano criticized American comedian Shane Gillis on air following controversial remarks made during his recent Saturday Night Live hosting monologue.

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Saturday Night Live UK co-host Ania Magliano criticized American comedian Shane Gillis during the show's Weekend Update segment on Saturday. Deadline and Variety TV reported that Magliano targeted Gillis following comments he made while hosting the American version of the sketch comedy show the previous week. [1][2]

The criticism follows an October 10 monologue on Saturday Night Live in New York where Gillis complained about women's attire at the gym, according to New York Times Arts and Deadline. As FTMQ Entertainment reported earlier, Gillis' comments faced backlash from actor Dan Levy and former cast member Ego Nwodim. [1][3][15]

Magliano has been part of the regular cast of Saturday Night Live UK on Sky One since March 2026. Gillis was previously hired as a Saturday Night Live cast member in September 2019 but was fired five days later following controversy over derogatory language used on a podcast, before returning as a guest host. [12][13][15]

Weekend Update is a satirical news program and the longest-running recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live, typically commenting on current events during the middle of the show. [14]

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In short

  • Ania Magliano targeted Shane Gillis during Saturday Night Live UK's Weekend Update segment.
  • Shane Gillis faced backlash over comments about women's gym attire during his October 10 monologue.
  • Magliano has appeared in the regular cast of Saturday Night Live UK on Sky One since March 2026.
  • Gillis was briefly hired as an SNL cast member in 2019 before being fired five days later.

Sources

Every paragraph above points to the numbered items it rests on. Read the originals here.

  1. [1]‘SNL UK’ Takes Aim At Shane Gillis On ‘Weekend Update’: “You Stupid F*cking C*nt”Deadline, 3h ago (the report this story comes from)
  2. [2]‘SNL U.K.’ Weekend Update Takes Jab at Shane Gillis: ‘You Stupid F—ing C—’Variety TV, 16h ago
  3. [3]‘Saturday Night Live U.K.’ Lays Into Shane GillisNew York Times Arts, 2h ago
  4. [4]‘Saturday Night Live U.K.’ Lays Into Shane GillisThe New York Times, 2h ago
  5. [5]‘You Can See Everything’ Triumphs With $15M as ‘Street Fighter’ Wins WeekendThe Hollywood Reporter, 8h ago
  6. [6]James Austin Johnson’s Trump Stops by ‘SNL U.K.’ for Meeting With Burnham and Zelenskyy: ‘You Don’t Have One Guy Who Can Play Trump?’Variety TV, 15h ago
  7. [7]‘SNL U.K.’ Star Ania Magliano Slams Shane Gillis Over Controversial Monologue With Brutal JokeIMDb, 3h ago
  8. [8]‘SNL UK’ Star Ania Magliano Goes Nuclear on MAGA-Friendly Host Shane GillisThe Daily Beast, 14h ago
  9. [9]SNL UK Calls Shane Gillis the C-Word—WatchLateNighter, 1d ago
  10. [10]Unlike Michael Che, SNL UK's Weekend Update has lots to say about Shane GillisA.V. Club, 8h ago
  11. [11]'Saturday Night Live UK' takes brutal dig at Shane Gillis over messy 'SNL' hosting gigThe Express Tribune, 16h ago

Background

  1. [12]Ania Magliano on Wikipedia
  2. [13]Shane Gillis on Wikipedia
  3. [14]Weekend Update on Wikipedia
  4. [15]Shane Gillis faces backlash over controversial Saturday Night Live monologue FTMQ Entertainment, 6d ago

Our newsroom writes these reports with the help of software, from the 15 sources listed and nothing else, and checks them against those sources. Facts can still be wrong or move on; the originals are the record. Spotted a mistake? Write to daniel@monsterkong.com.

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