A familiar face to fans of Saturday Night Live has found herself in hot water of an interview that has since been edited out of a YouTube video.
Chloe Fineman joined SNL as a regular cast member since 2019, having been widely praised as one of the standouts from the TV sketch comedy show.
The cast of the show appeared on Vanity Fair’s YouTube channel to do a quiz on how well they know each other, with Fineman presenting the question of which job she was fired then later rehired from.
The celebrity's answer was heavily cut from the video after she revealed she had ‘pantsed’ a 6-year-old boy in her job as a camp counsellor.
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She admitted this in the YouTube video with her five cast mates shown visibly cringing at Fineman admitting this on camera.
The full version of her story, cut from the YouTube video, has been stoking controversy on social media due to Fineman’s unedited comments about the incident.
In the version currently playing on YouTube Fineman simply states: “I pantsed a boy. He would lift my shirt all the time.”
After a reaction of shock from her cast-mates she said: “It was a different time... He would be like, ‘Hey, could I have a hug?’ And then I’d go to hug him and he’d lift my shirt, like a d*ck.
“Then I was like, ‘I’m going to get back at you.’ And so we were on a hike and I was like, ‘Hey, Ollie, go look over there. It’s a hawk.’ He looked and then I yanked his pants down, and then I was fired.”
In the extended version which Vanity Fair have since replaced, however, she gave more detail, saying that when she pulled down his trousers he wasn’t wearing any pants and adding: “His little ding-a-ling was out.”
She said: “He wasn’t wearing underpants and a big school bus drove past… he wasn’t wearing underwear, his little ding-a-ling was out, these two twins were like ‘oh I didn’t know you didn’t wear underwear.’”
Ashley Padilla, her SNL castmate, immediately responded saying: “I think you’re on a list somewhere”, after hearing the opening to the story, with this also being edited out of the YouTube video.
Fineman had previously discussed the incident on the Therapuss with Jake Shane podcast, joking that she decided to ‘get back at that motherfucker’ over the six-year-old lift her shirt.
Stating that she was 16 at the time, she said she ‘wasn’t asked back’ as a result of the incident.
When asked if she knew straight away that she had ‘f*cked up’ she responded: “Honestly I think I was thinking ‘haha’, I had no remorse I had to be talked to by older counsellors to be like ‘you cannot pants campers’.”
The clip has gone viral on X with more than 3.5 million views on an unedited clip of the interview.
One viewer quoted with a shocked GIF, saying: “the way they're all looking at her like this while she continues to dig herself into a deeper hole with this atrocious anecdote.”
Another viewer tweeted crying emojis, saying: “omg where are the publicists, do they not tell the celebs to shut up these days like this is not a story to tell people.”
LADbible Group have contacted representatives for Chloe Fineman and Vanity Fair for comment.
Topics: Saturday Night Live, YouTube, Social Media, TV and Film, TV, Celebrity
Michael Slavin