Saturday Night Live has apologized to “The White Lotus” star Aimee Lou Wood for its “mean and unfunny” anti-Trump parody of her popular HBO series in which her character Chelsea was portrayed with unflatteringly big teeth.
Sticking with its tiresome and unfunny Trump-bashing that has dominated the long running show for the last decade, the NBC late night flagship featured a pre-recorded skit titled “The White Potus” that got yucks from the show’s leftist fans but Wood wasn’t laughing, slamming her portrayal by cast member Sarah Sherman who sported oversized prosthetic choppers and used an exaggerated British accent.
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In the skit, the SNL writers were mocking HHS Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as played by host Jon Hamm, who called for taking “all the fluoride out of the water” when the camera cut to the Wood character and the fake teeth, who asked, “Fluoride? What’s that?”
“Such a shame cuz I had such a great time watching it a couple of weeks ago,” the 31-year-old said on her Instagram Stories after the episode aired. “Yes, take the piss for sure – that’s what the show is about- but there must be a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way?”
“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,” she added.
“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,” Wood complained.
Aimee Lou Wood calls out SNL for jokes made about her teeth:
“I did find it mean and unfunny… such a shame cuz I had such a great time watching it a couple weeks ago. Yes, take the piss for sure — that’s what the show is about- but there must be a cleverer, less cheap way?” pic.twitter.com/N6tSECmcIV
— Pop Base (@PopBase) April 13, 2025
“It was a sharp and funny skit until it suddenly took a screeching turn into 1970’s misogyny,” the “White Lotus” star added. “This sums up my view.”
She also slammed the segment as “mean and unfunny” to her followers, who agreed with her and urged her to keep it up.
“Don’t delete it,” one commenter wrote. “It was mean and unfunny and saying it out loud removes their power.”
Wood later posted that she received an apology from the show after SNL hurt her feelings.
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“I’ve had apologies from SNL,” she wrote in an Instagram update.
SNL was also ripped by X users for its cruel portrayal of Wood’s character.
shame on someone for having natural teeth and not the same copy paste veneers every hollywood celebrity has
— . (@positionsmafiaa) April 13, 2025
You did Aimee/Chelsea so wrong. That was really disrespectful
— Dia (@Queen_Dia_) April 14, 2025
SNL has completely lost their way. SAD
— Mike (@mtatsis) April 14, 2025
Weirdly mean about Aimee Lou Wood.
— bored all day (@HobbyMatt89) April 13, 2025
I don’t watch White Lotus so I have no clue what this sketch is about. Shouldn’t it have been at least stand on it’s own funny? Worst writers in my lifetime and I’ve been a fan since ’76.
— DeniseVB (@blogho) April 13, 2025
Remember when SNL was funny?
— John in SC (@johninsc1) April 13, 2025
Propaganda that only makes anti Americans smile. SNL lost their credibility years ago.
— meshawn maddock (@MeshawnMaddock) April 13, 2025
The skit also featured James Austin Johnson in his recurring role as the fake POTUS, Mikey Day as Don Jr., and Scarlett Johansson as Ivanka Trump.
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