Aimee Lou Wood To Host SNL UK A Year After Drama With US Show

The next two hosts of Saturday Night Live UK have been unveiled.

After reaching the halfway point of the season over the weekend, SNL UK is taking a scheduled break this Saturday, and will return on 25 April with Nicola Coughlan as its guest presenter.

Nicola previously made two brief appearances in the first SNL UK live broadcast, first joining inaugural host Tina Fey during her comedy monologue and later sharing the screen with cast member George Fouracres in one particularly popular sketch.

It’s also been confirmed that Aimee Lou Wood will front the sketch comedy a week after the Derry Girls star.

News of the White Lotus actor’s presenting stint notably comes one year after she called out the US version of Saturday Night Live, over its depiction of her in a parody sketch.

Back in April 2025, SNL comedian Sarah Sherman donned fake teeth and attempted an exaggerated Manchester accent in a political White Lotus parody skit, during which she remarked: “Flouride? What’s that?”

The Bafta winner claimed on Instagram at the time that she’d found the sketch “mean and unfunny”, writing: “Take the piss for sure – that’s what the show is about – but there must be a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way?”

“I have big gap teeth, not bad teeth,” she went on to say. “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.”

Aimee later claimed she’d received flowers as an apology from Sarah Sherman, before admitting that she felt the fall-out from the SNL sketch, and her comments about it, had grown “very out of control”.

SNL UK has also confirmed Foo Fighters and Meek as its musical guests for Nicola and Amy’s episodes, respectively.

Despite initial scepticism, the first season of SNL UK has proved to be a success for Sky, both in terms of viewing figures and critical reception.

Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan, Riz Ahmed and Jack Whitehall hosted the first four episodes of the season, which was boosted from six episodes to eight before it began airing.