{"id":47967,"date":"2026-04-11T21:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T21:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=47967"},"modified":"2026-04-11T21:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T21:23:14","slug":"snl-uk-cold-open-spoofs-melania-trumps-epstein-statement-kanye-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=47967","title":{"rendered":"SNL UK Cold Open Spoofs Melania Trump&#8217;s Epstein Statement, Kanye West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe fourth episode of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\">Saturday Night Live<\/a> U.K.\u201d opened with a sketch spoofing both Melania Trump\u2019s statement on Jeffrey Epstein and Kanye West\u2019s Wireless Festival controversy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe sketch began with Jack Shep, Al Nash and Annabel Marlow enjoying some rare London sunshine and playing a game of \u201cNever Have I Ever.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cNever have I ever kissed two boys on one night,\u201d Shep offers, to which Marlow replies: \u201cGuilty!\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBut the game then gets darker as Marlow says, \u201cNever have I ever accidentally booked a Neo-Nazi to headline a music festival for three nights,\u201d referencing the recently canceled Wireless Festival, which West was set to headline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cGirl, you said you wouldn\u2019t bring that up!\u201d Shep replies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMelania Trump then appears from behind a bush, played by Emma Sidi. \u201cNever have I ever been friends with Jeffrey Epstein!\u201d she exclaims, to the surprise of the other three. Sidi as Melania then suggests a game of \u201cTruth or Dare,\u201d starting with: \u201cHow dare you accuse me of female friendship with short-haired sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWhy do you keep bringing up all the Epstein stuff?\u201d Marlow asks, while Shep adds: \u201cYeah like, your husband literally started a war to distract us all from it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tEarlier this week, Trump made a bizarre statement about Epstein, saying that she never had a relationship with Epstein or Maxwell. \u201cThe lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today,\u201d the First Lady said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/snl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_snl\" data-tag=\"snl\">SNL<\/a> U.K.\u201d sketch, Sidi\u2019s Melania then begs for \u201cone last chance\u201d with her new friends, saying that she didn\u2019t have any \u201csince they all died in a maximum security prison.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTo prove it, she offers up \u201ctwo truths and a lie\u201d: \u201cI love my new friends, I like poor people \u2013 wink, wink \u2013 and live from London, it\u2019s Saturday Night!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/global\/snl-uk-cold-open-melania-trump-epstein-statement-kanye-west-1236719597\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth episode of \u201cSaturday Night Live U.K.\u201d opened with a sketch spoofing both Melania Trump\u2019s statement on Jeffrey Epstein and Kanye West\u2019s Wireless Festival controversy.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertaonment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}