Olivia Rodrigo definitely made the most of her double-dipping Saturday Night Live gig as host and musical guest this weekend. In addition to performing a pair of tracks from her upcoming third studio album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love (June 12) — “Drop Dead” and the ballad “Begged” — the singer made headlines with her show-opening monologue.
In the open, Rodrigo, 23, threw a light jab at her early days co-starring in the Disney Channel hit Bizaardvark when she was 13 alongside influencer turned professional boxer Jake Paul. “When I was 13, I was on a Disney show called Bizaardvark, and we had an incredible cast, which included acting legend Jake Paul,” Rodrigo said of the 29-year-old pugilist and influencer who famously won a unanimous decision against former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson [59] in an exhibition bout on Netflix in November 2024. “And we’d always talk about our futures, me and Jake. I’d say, ‘I really wanna create music that explores the complexities of girls my age,’ and he’d say, ‘Well, one day I really wanna beat up old guys on Netflix.’ And we both did it, hooray!”
Never one to let a good promo moment go to waste, Paul — who started on Bizaardvark at 19 and spent around 18 months playing character Dirk Mann — responded to the shout-out on Twitter on Sunday (May 3), posting a pic of himself next to Rodrigo from her monologue with the caption, “We had the vision 😂 i told you that you would sell stadiums out and then we both did 🤯 proud of you fr.”
A fan weighed in with a comment suggesting that Paul didn’t understand that “she [Rodrigo] laughed at him and not with him,” to which the one-time Vine star responded, “I got that she was making a joke at my expense. So what. She’s on SNL and that’s what they are supposed to do. Doesn’t change my admiration of her and her success.”
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