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The New York Times |
After Madison made her closing remarks, she turned to Wallen and hugged him. They shared a few words off mic before he walked offstage into the audience past the camera.
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“I thought maybe he had to go to the potty or something,” Saturday Night Live ‘s Kenan Thompson tells Entertainment Weekly about this week’s musical guest Morgan Wallen, who didn’t stick around for th...
CNN |
“It just felt so abrupt,” Thompson told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published Monday.

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