- People’s Sexiest Man Alive to host show for fifth time
- NBC cites ‘abundance of caution’ behind Covid move
The actor Paul Rudd, People’s Sexiest Man Alive of 2021, was set to be inducted into the vaunted Five-Timers Club on Saturday Night Live but the surging Omicron variant of the coronavirus meant there would not be a live audience to see it happen.
The long-running sketch comedy show announced on social media on Saturday afternoon that the night’s episode would tape without a live audience and with only limited cast and crew, “due to the recent spike in the Omicron variant and out of an abundance of caution”.