{"id":10659,"date":"2020-10-08T04:26:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T08:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2020\/10\/morgan-wallen-loses-snl-musical-slot\/"},"modified":"2020-10-08T08:46:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T12:46:42","slug":"morgan-wallen-loses-snl-musical-slot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/10\/morgan-wallen-loses-snl-musical-slot\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen Loses Spot On SNL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Wallen\u2019s upcoming appearance on Saturday Night Live has been cancelled due to his very public maskless partying over the weekend with the threat of spreading COVID 19.<\/p>\n<p>His multiple activities made him a trending topic on Twitter and TikTok and was reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2020\/tv\/news\/morgan-wallen-saturday-night-live-covid-partying-1234795121\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/arts-entertainment\/2020\/10\/07\/morgan-wallen-snl-musical-guest-partying-alabama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post<\/a> and other national outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Videos of him kissing several women on the mouth ended up on <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/country\/morgan-wallen-snl-criticism-after-partying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">People.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1313931839069974528&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1312781963703595021&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>A number of photos and videos of him without a mask popped up online &#8211; of him at multiple locations over the weekend, including a photo he posted to his own Instagram account on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan shared the news of his removal from the show in an emotional video that he posted on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that although he has not tested positive for COVID-19, he was asked not to come to set because of COVID protocols.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMy actions this past weekend were pretty short-sighted and they have obviously affected my long-term goals and my dreams. I respect the show&#8217;s decision, because I know that I put them in jeopardy, and I take ownership for this. It may be a second before you hear from me for a while, but, uh, I&#8217;m gonna go work on me, and I appreciate y&#8217;all respecting that, and I&#8217;ll talk to you soon. I love you.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CGDvWpAniWw\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>He sent the video from a New York hotel room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen\u2019s upcoming appearance on Saturday Night Live has been cancelled due to his very public maskless partying over the weekend with the threat of spreading COVID 19.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":10242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[171,442,443],"class_list":["post-10659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-morgan-wallen","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-snl"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 04:08:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/10\/morgan-wallen-loses-snl-musical-slot\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10677,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10659\/revisions\/10677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}