Ayo Edebiri has insisted there isn’t any fact to rumours of a beef with Jennifer Lopez, calling the thought “absurd” after feedback made by Edebiri previously almost overshadowed their Saturday Evening Dwell episode early this yr.
As Edebiri was getting ready to visitor host Saturday Evening Dwell in February, a clip from a 2020 podcast went viral with The Bear star saying Lopez’s profession was a “rip-off”.
“That may be like Mr Bean and Mick Jagger beefing,” she advised Vainness Honest, including that the thought of a beef was absurd.
“And I’m clearly Mr Bean. She’s J Lo!”
Within the 2020 clip from the podcast Rip-off Goddess, Edebiri agreed with host Laci Mosley’s declare that Lopez’s “complete profession is one lengthy rip-off”.
“Properly, that’s the factor, she thinks she’s on a number of tracks, however it’s not her. I feel she thinks that she’s nonetheless good, despite the fact that she’s not singing for many of those songs,” Edebiri stated.
“Loads of the writeups of the songs shall be like, ‘J Lo didn’t have time to make it to the studio.’ Like, ‘J Lo was busy.’ Doing what? Not singing, clearly.”
The clip went viral quickly after it was introduced that Edebiri, basking within the success of The Bear on the awards circuit, could be internet hosting Saturday Evening Dwell and Lopez, rolling out her album This Is Me…Now, could be the musical visitor.
Edebiri addressed the controversy on the SNL episode itself, saying in a sketch: “OK, OK, we get it. It’s unsuitable to depart imply feedback, or submit feedback only for clout, or run your mouth on a podcast and also you don’t contemplate the affect since you’re 24 and silly.”
After the episode aired, Lopez stated Edebiri had come to her with a tearful apology they usually had cleared the air.
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“She was mortified and really candy,” Lopez advised Selection.
“She got here to my dressing room and apologised with tears in her eyes, saying how horrible it was that she had stated these issues,” she added.
“She felt actually badly and liked my efficiency as a result of we had simply executed my soundcheck and she or he really acquired to listen to me carry out. She was similar to, ‘I’m so f***ing sorry, it was so terrible of me.’”
Edebiri confirmed the interplay to Vainness Honest. “She was very chill and good about it,” she stated of Lopez.
Edebiri described internet hosting SNL as a dream come true. “SNL is one thing that in my bones, that I dreamed of as a comic, as a younger child,” she stated. “That to me is a pinnacle of success.”
Edebiri will subsequent be seen on the Emmy-winning present The Bear, when it returns for its third season on 27 June.