‘Saturday Night Live’ Alum Cecily Strong Flaunts Baby Bump on 50th Anniversary Red Carpet
Cecily Strong flaunted her baby bump for Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary.
Strong, 40, showed off her pregnant belly on the red carpet for SNL’s 50th anniversary special on Sunday, February 16, held in Studio 8H at 30 Rock in New York City. The SNL alum held her bump as she posed for photos and stunned in a black gown with dramatic floor-length sleeves.
Strong announced last year that she was expecting her first child with her fiancé, Jack. “A couple years ago I did a piece on SNL as Goober the Clown who had an abortion the day before her 23rd birthday,” Strong wrote via Instagram in November 2024. “I’m happy to report that same clown is now very happily pregnant from IVF at 40.”
She continued, “I’ve been in lots of waiting rooms with other women throughout my life. Feeling terrified and lonely all those years ago at a clinic in California, to feeling frustrated and anxious in fertility offices in New York the past couple of years, to giddily talking everyone’s ear off and wishing everyone around me good luck like I was Forrest Gump the day of my transfer.”
At the time, the actress further opened up about her experience with pregnancy, which included an abortion in her early 20s, as well as seeking in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment later in life. However, Strong noted that she was “really hopeful” to meet her baby “next spring.”
During a March 2024 appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Strong revealed that she and longtime partner Jack had gotten engaged at the end of 2023. She admitted that, while the proposal was intended to be a surprise, it wound up being spoiled.
“One day he was like, ‘I’m so inundated with emails and texts, look at this. ‘And he showed me his phone, and the first text was from a friend that said, ‘How did it go?! Ring emoji,’” Strong recalled. “And then, I was like, ‘Oh no, should I?’ And he went, ‘Did you see that?’ And I was like, ‘I could try very hard to lie, but…’ So then I knew.”
As for SNL’s 50th anniversary, the star-studded festivities kicked off on Friday, February 14, and featured will see a roster of SNL veterans and former hosts as they came together to toast the legendary variety series.
“I’ve been forced to believe it’s the 50th season because I was there for most of it, but we still take it one week at a time,” Lorne Michaels, who created the series in 1975, told Emmy magazine in February 2025. “The great part of doing the show is that whatever happened last week, you’re onto this week. We’re always looking for what’s fresh. Life is all about reinvention.”
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Bill Murray Reprises ‘Nick the Lounge Singer’ With Maya Rudolph, Cecily Strong and Ana Gasteyer for ‘SNL50’
By Thania Garcia
Bill Murray’s “Nick the Lounge Singer” made a big return for Friday’s 50th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live,” or the “SNL50: The Homecoming Concert.” Murray introduced himself as Nick Valentine before launching into a monologue with Paul Shaffer, ex-SNL pianist and David Letterman’s former musical director, on piano.
“We’re here on Valentine’s day,” Murray told Friday’s audience. “I promise you, it is just a coincidence — the day is not named after me. February fourteenth has been Valentine’s Day for a good many years now, probably before I was even born, I think probably longer.”
The pair were later joined by Maya Rudolph, Cecily Strong and Ana Gasteyer — with Murray introducing the trio as “three of the most beautiful ladies a man could ever hope to meet” — who provided backing vocals in a performance Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s “You’re All I Need to Get By.”
Murray’s Nick the Lounge Singer character appeared during the show’s third season, when he delivered a very original take on the “Star Wars” theme song in the Powder Room on Meatloaf Mountain. With Shaffer on keys, Nick the lounge singer sings some classics before belting through that “big hit out of ’77!”
“Star Wars!/ Nothing but Star Wars/ Give me those Star Wars/ Don’t let them end/ Star Wars/ If they should bar wars/ Please let these Star Wars… stay,” he sang while entertaining skiiers.
The star-studded “Homecoming Concert,” hosted by Jimmy Fallon, will feature performances by Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny, Miley Cyrus, Backstreet Boys and Post Malone. The lineup also includes Mumford & Sons, Jack White, David Byrne, Robyn, Eddie Vedder, DEVO, Brittany Howard, Chris Martin, Bonnie Raitt, Brandi Carlile, Jelly Roll, the B-52s, Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Roots will also perform, alongside more recent additions Cher, Dave Grohl, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Snoop Dogg, St. Vincent and Wyclef Jean.
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