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Chevy Chase Admits It Was a Mistake to Leave Saturday Night Live

Chevy Chase has harbored some regrets about his exit from Saturday Night Live. "It was a mistake to leave SNL,” Chase, 82, said in the Thursday, November 20, trailer for the upcoming CNN Films documentary I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not. Chase left SNL in late 1976 in the middle of the sketch comedy show’s second season, becoming only the second original cast member to do so after George Coe left during season 1. The National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation star had become SNL’s breakout star in its first season and won two Emmy Awards for his performance and writing during his brief time on the show. His SNL fame helped launch his career as a movie star in the ‘80s, with classic comedies like Fletch, Caddyshack, The Three Amigos and the National Lampoon's Vacation films. However, it wasn’t the promise of a new direction in his career that led him to leave SNL. Instead, it had to do with love. “I left because I was stricken with a girl from L.A. that I met, and in fact married, but for only a couple of years,” Chase told Willie Geist on Morning Joe back in February, referring to his second wife, Jacqueline Carlin. Chase and Carlin, who died at age 78 in 2021, were engaged during his time on SNL. The comedian has stated that his then-fiancée was reluctant to move to New York, so he left the show and moved to Los Angeles to marry her. The pair eventually got divorced in 1980. Chase told Geist, 50, that his regrets over leaving SNL came on very quickly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIHEjXEI-l0&t=86s “It was strange because I missed it right away. And I still miss it,” he admitted. “I loved that show, I loved being with Lorne and the cast — quite a funny cast: Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Garrett Morris, Gilda [Radner], Laraine [Newman] and Jane [Curtain]. You know that was a great group of people. So I missed them too.” Chase was replaced by Bill Murray in SNL season 2. Despite his exit from the series, he continued to make cameo appearances throughout the season and later returned to host SNL eight times between 1978 and 1997. Chase made headlines in 1978 when he fought with Murray, 75, in Belushi’s dressing room while filming an episode of SNL. The two came to blows when the Ghostbusters star reportedly made a comment about Chase’s struggling marriage to Carlin, which led Chase to criticize Murray’s physical appearance. They later reconciled and starred together in Caddyshack in 1980. Chase had other controversial moments with SNL over the years, including reports of butting heads with other cast members and his highly publicized criticism of the show in 2018. “I had to watch a little of it, and I just couldn’t f***ing believe it,” he told The Washington Post at the time. “That means a whole generation of s***heads laughs at the worst f***ing humor in the world. You know what I mean? How could you dare give that generation worse s*** than they already have in their lives? It just drives me nuts.” Reports surfaced after Chevy’s last hosting gig in 1997 that SNL creator Lorne Michaels “banned” him from the job due to shock over his behavior. However, Michaels shut down the rumors in the same interview with The Washington Post. “That’s idiotic,” he told the outlet. “None of it was particularly shocking to me or upsetting to me. It’s just generational.” I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not premieres on CNN on January 1, 2026, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

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How Many Kids Does Meghan King Have? All About Her 3 Children

Meghan King is a reality TV personality, real estate advisor and mother of three. The Real Housewives of Orange County alum married former baseball pro Jim Edmonds in 2014. They went on to welcome daughter Aspen via IVF in 2016, followed by twin sons Hart and Hayes in 2018. (Through her marriage to Edmonds, King also became a stepmother to his four children from previous relationships.) King and Edmonds ultimately split in 2019, with their divorce being finalized in May 2021. The exes continued to coparent Aspen, Hart and Hayes as they shared joint custody, but an investigation from Child Protective Services led King to temporarily lose physical custody of the kids, Us Weekly exclusively reported in November 2025. Keep scrolling for everything to know about King’s kids amid her custody battle with Edmonds. Meghan King and Jim Edmonds welcomed daughter Aspen via IVF on November 24, 2016, after struggling with infertility. “I have a lot of friends who have had fertility issues. Some talk about it and some don’t talk about it, but one thing is consistent: It’s hard on every single one of them,” she told Us in June 2016 of her struggles to conceive. "I’m an open person, so I wanted to show my process and the heartaches and the ups and the downs that go with IVF so people can say, ‘It’s OK to feel this way.’" King celebrated Aspen’s 8th birthday in November 2024 by sharing a sweet tribute via Instagram. "Eight years ago I gave birth to the greatest joy I've ever known," she wrote. "It was on that Thanksgiving that I learnt what it truly meant to be thankful, and I've been laughing and crying ever since. Aspen: graceful, strong, fearless, resilient, beautiful, and the happiest, smiliest angel princess of all things kind and girly and fun there is. You will know when she's around, she's a force of the highest vibration. God bestowed quite a blessing to us all." Hart and Hayes Meghan King and Jim Edmonds’ twin sons, Hart and Hayes, were born in June 2018. “They’re such good babies,” she exclusively told Us at the time. “I feel really lucky.” “They’re early, so they were born exactly at 37 weeks. And so that’s still considered a week premature, so we could have run into issues,” King explained. “We didn’t, but since Hart was smaller, when your bilirubin level is higher, they take it a little bit more serious. … But I’m just happy that I didn’t have to deal with NICU time — like a lot of twin moms do — because I just don’t think I would be able to. I would handle it because you have to handle it, but I’m glad I didn’t have to.” As for their personalities, King said, “Hayes is so chill. If he’s ever fussy, he just needs to burp and that’s it. Hart is like a wild man and he wants to be held all the time. He’s really good too. … [Aspen] cried a lot for the first five weeks and these guys don’t.” Hart was diagnosed with cerebral palsy in 2020, and King has been open about the challenges of raising a child with this illness. “My son Hart has cerebral palsy, which I have talked about. And he knows he has cerebral palsy, but there’s other things that have come up and I’ve just been trying to kind of figure out what that’s been,” she exclusively told Us in 2024. “His needs fall under the neurodivergent category. And so, like a lot of other parents with children in this category, it can be really trying to find your way through the weeds to figure out what’s going on with your kid and finding a diagnosis in order to be able to articulate his needs better so we can provide the access to [his] needs.” Meghan King Lost Custody of Her Kids in 2025 King lost physical custody of her kids after a school employee called Child Protective Services, leading to an investigation, a source exclusively told Us in November 2025. She was granted supervised visitation while Edmonds has sole physical custody. The decision is temporary and a hearing will be held in December 2025 to further discuss the arrangement, according to the source. Edmonds’ team declined to comment. Us reached out to King for comment.