Megan Thee Stallion Turned To ‘Good Friend’ Lizzo For Advice Ahead Of Pulling Double Duty On ‘SNL’ (Exclusive)

Performing on Saturday Night Live is overmuch antithetic than hosting the long-running sketch show, truthful Megan Thee Stallion had her enactment chopped retired for her up of the Oct. 15 episode. Megan, 27, volition articulation a prime nine erstwhile she pulls double-duty connected the show, hosting and performing arsenic that episode’s philharmonic guest. “[Megan’s] been connected SNL arsenic a philharmonic impermanent before, truthful she has a level of comfortableness there, which helps,” a root adjacent to the Houston rapper tells HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY. “She’s a precise assured idiosyncratic and she loves to perform, but it’s inactive a immense happening to instrumentality on.”

While immoderate acts mightiness interruption nether the pressure, Megan has a concealed limb successful her backmost pocket: her friend, Lizzo. “[Megan’s] decidedly talked to radical beforehand to find retired what she was successful for,” the insider tells HollywoodLife. “Lizzo did it earlier this year, and they’re bully friends, truthful she gave her the ins and outs of what to expect this week and however to prepare. Luckily Meg’s got a brainsick enactment ethic, truthful she’s not acrophobic to enactment up arsenic precocious arsenic she has to, everyone’s assured she’s going to termination it.”

Lizzo connected ‘SNL’ (NBC)

Lizzo hosted and performed connected the April 16 occurrence of SNL, becoming the archetypal creator since Billie Eilish’s stint successful December 2021 to articulation the double-duty club. In 1975, Paul Simon became the archetypal instrumentalist to big and perform connected SNL, and since then, implicit 40 radical person followed successful his footsteps, per Newsweek. Artists similar Stevie Wonder, Dolly Parton, Frank Zappa, Elton John, Drake, Mick Jagger, Taylor Swift, Olivia Newton-John, Harry Styles, MC Hammer and Britney Spears have each joined that double-duty club.

Megan is acceptable to emergence to the challenge. “Although Megan is inactive a spot nervous, she’s adjacent much excited to big and service arsenic the philharmonic impermanent connected SNL,” a 2nd root adjacent to Hot Girl Meg tells HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY. “She’s decidedly getting proposal from anyplace she can, but Megan thinks it’s a fantastic accidental to amusement disconnected immoderate of her acting skills successful beforehand of a unrecorded audience.”

Megan Thee Stallion (NBC)

“Performing successful beforehand of crowds is evidently thing caller for her,” the 2nd insider adds, “but this is simply a precise intimate mounting truthful it mightiness consciousness a small different. She’s acceptable for the situation and adjacent though it’s a ton of enactment to prepare, this was an accidental she couldn’t walk up; she’s precise excited to amusement her stuff.”

Megan appeared arsenic the philharmonic impermanent connected SNL’s October 3, 2020 episode. Meg performed “Savage” portion delivering a connection to “Protect Black Women.” The show happened months aft rapper Tory Lanez allegedly shot Megan successful the feet.