Saturday Night Live featured player Chloe Troast will not be returning for the show’s 50th season.
Deadline broke the news of Troast’s departure Monday night as part of its reporting that three new featured players have been hired. Troast herself later confirmed her exit in an Instagram post.
“Hey all, I was going to wait to post, but Deadline beat me to it,” she wrote. “Unfortunately I was not asked back to SNL this season. I wish I was going to be with all the the amazing friends I made there, it truly felt like home. But it wasn’t in the cards.”
Troast’s is one of the more surprising SNL cuts in recent memory. The sole addition to the cast for its 49th season, she appeared to quickly find her groove on the show, breaking out just a month into her run when she conceived and starred in “Little Orphan Cassidy,” a sketch that saw her sing a duet with the moon (played by Timothee Chalamet).
As recently as late last month, it was rumored that she was being upped from featured player to the show’s reperatory cast a year ahead of schedule. The move would have made Troast the first cast member to be promoted within a year since Aidy Bryant and Cecily Strong in 2013.
According to LateNighter’s screen time tallies for Season 49, Troast logged more screen time than three more-tenured SNL cast members, although two of those cast members–Punkie Johnson and Molly Kearney–also left the show this summer. (Michael Longfellow, the third, has been upped to the repertory cast for Season 50.)
Troast can take consolation in the post-show success seen by many of the show’s past cut performers, a list that includes the likes of Robert Downey Jr, Chris Rock, and Sarah Silverman, to name just a few.
Saturday Night Live is set to kick off its milestone 50th season on September 28.
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