Walton Goggins will host Saturday Night Live just weeks after the hit show aired a savage skit mocking his White Lotus co-star Aimee Lou Wood‘s teeth.
The actor, 53, who is rumored to be feuding with Wood, 31, after the pair portrayed couple Rick and Chelsea on season three of the hit show, will make his SNL debut on May 10, with Scarlett Johansson then hosting the final show of the season on May 10.
Goggins’ hosting comes just days after Wood was left in tears over a ‘cruel and unfunny’ SNL skit which saw Sarah Sherman wear huge prosthetic teeth while parodying the Brit actress.
In the sketch, named The White Potus, it imagined the Trump family and various political figures on holiday at the famous retreat.
Goggins’ character Rick was reimagined as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who was seen on a rambling rant debating they take ‘all the fluoride out of the water’.
The camera then cut to Aimee’s character Chelsea – played by Sarah – with exaggerated buck teeth, who exclaimed: ‘Fluoride? What’s that?’
Walton Goggins will host Saturday Night Live just weeks after the hit show aired a savage skit mocking his White Lotus co-star Aimee Lou Wood’s teeth
The actor, 53, is rumored to be feuding with Wood, 31, after the pair portrayed couple Rick and Chelsea on season three of the hit show
In response, Aimee took aim at the ‘cheap’ joke, as she wrote: ‘Such a shame cuz I had such a great time watching it a couple weeks ago. Yes, take the p**s for sure – that’s what the show is about- but there must be a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way?’
She also shared messages of support from her followers and sister Emily, admitting she’d received ‘thousands’ of messages backing her up.
Aimee continued: ‘Last thing I’ll say on the matter. I am not thin skinned. I actually love being taken the p**s out of when it’s clever and in good spirits. But the joke was about fluoride. I have big gap teeth not bad teeth.
‘I don’t mind caricature – I understand that’s what SNL is. But the rest of the skit was punching up and I/ Chelsea was the only one punched down On… Okay end of.’
To conclude, she shared a comment from a fan that read: ‘It was a sharp and funny skit until it suddenly took a screeching turn into 1970’s misogyny’, she added: ‘This sums up my view’.
Wood recently broken her silence on feud rumors with Goggin.
Despite their on-screen chemistry in Thailand, the pair have reportedly fallen out since filming for the HBO Max series wrapped up.
Eagle-eyed fans noticed how the pair have unfollowed each other on social media and potentially have each other blocked.
Goggins’ hosting comes after Wood was left in tears over a ‘cruel and unfunny’ SNL skit which saw Sarah Sherman (right) wear huge prosthetic teeth while parodying the Brit actress
After the actress went viral for her takedown of the ‘mean and unfunny’ skit, she claimed that SNL had reached out to extend an olive branch
Taking to her Instagram, Aimee shared a piece of fan art by @sketchesbyspencer on her Stories.
The impressive drawing showed the actress and the actor during their time together on the show, seemingly suggesting all is now well between them.
The post comes just a day after it was reported that the pair will soon be reuniting for a work obligation amid suspicions they are embroiled in a feud, CNN reporter Elizabeth Wagmeister claimed.
The entertainment correspondent said she learned ‘off the record’ that Aimee and Walton may be forced to team up ‘in the coming weeks’ for a professional matter.
‘There is something professionally that they are doing in the coming weeks together,’ she explained during an appearance on Nick Viall’s The Viall Files podcast.
If the pair are indeed feuding, Elizabeth believes their upcoming work event indicates the rift is not as bad as warring former co-stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, who stayed separated due to their drama.
‘So, if there really is a feud, this has not stopped them… It’s not like they can’t be in the same room, is my point. Because I am told that there is something on the books.
‘But also like work is work, right? So if you have to do something for work… look, they’re about to go into a giant Emmy campaign. Like every person in that show is going to be nominated.’
‘They’re going to have to be in the same room. But, the reason why that was interesting to me, is because if you look at like a Blake Lively Justin Baldoni thing, like they cannot be in the same, right?
‘So this isn’t at that level by any means, because I am told that they are going to be doing something for work in the next few weeks.’
DailyMail.com has contacted representatives for Aimee and Walton for comment.
This week fans speculated that Walton has blocked Aimee Lou on Instagram, amid rumours of a huge feud.
Goggins raved that the sketch was a ‘SMASHING’ success, and he included a message for Jon Hamm, who appeared in the sketch as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The move shocked fans, as Goggins had once been effusive about Wood and posted numerous behind-the-scenes photos of the two looking chummy during White Lotus shooting
Aimee Lou, who boasts 2.6m Instagram followers, has been passionately sharing behind the scenes photos and reposts from her co-stars throughout the third season, with Walton also sharing his own set memories.
And in their posts they have both enthusiastically tagged their co-stars – every one but each other.
Elsewhere, Aimee revealed she finally received an apology from Saturday Night Live star Sherman, days after she was recently seen crying in London.
Days after slamming SNL’s ‘mean and unfunny’ White Lotus-inspired sketch, which included a cruel joke about her teeth, the English actress, revealed Sarah extended a sweet olive branch.
‘Thank you for the beautiful flowers,’ Aimee captioned a photo, uploaded to her Instagram Story, of a stunning floral arrangement from Sarah.
Previously the White Lotus star defended Sarah’s portrayal of her as she explained to her fans that she wasn’t ‘hating on her’ but the concept of the sketch.
