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Ayo Edebiri Shuts Down Jennifer Lopez ‘SNL’ Tension Rumors: ‘Like Mr. Bean and Mick Jagger Beefing’

Ayo Edebiri shut down talk of tension on the 'SNL' set with Jennifer Lopez in a Vanity Fair cover story, saying the singer was 'very chill and nice.'

That was the dilemma faced by award-winning The Bear star Ayo Edebiri, who found herself in hot water earlier this year when, on the eve of her first hosting gig on Saturday Night Live, some unflattering comments she’d made four years earlier about the night’s musical guest, Jennifer Lopez, were revived to her mortification. For a refresher, the former stand-up comedian said, “I was actually thinking about one of my favorite scams of all time because J.Lo is performing at the Super Bowl Halftime Show. Though it likely made for an awkward week, Edebiri told VF that it didn’t ruin her long-held dream of taking her place on the SNL stage.

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