Saturday Night Livewill join the countless admirerspaying tributetoBetty Whiteafterthe legendary actress’s deathFriday.
ET time slot Saturday.
“After three rejections, I stopped asking,“Michaels told EW at the time.
Betty White hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’.Dana Edelson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
“But it seemed amusing to me as the Facebook thing started.”
Still, the actress was reluctant to take the gig.
“People have had such an overdose of me they don’t need me anymore!
And he said, ‘You’ve got to do it.
If you don’t do it, I’ll divorce you!"’
Whitedied Friday at age 99, just a few weeks shy ofher 100th birthday.
A party at which she ordered a vodka and a hotdog and stayed til the bitter end.”
SNLwill return with new episodes later this year.
