Lindsay Shookus says goodbye to SNL after 20 years , Fans react 👆😱

Lindsay Shookus has announced that she will be leaving Saturday Night Live

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After twenty years she is leaving the program.

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Although she was offered a promotion, she felt as if it was the right time to depart from the program.

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Fans figured out that the announcement occurred during the second wedding weekend of her former partner, Ben Affleck.

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She started working in 2002 in SNL , 10 of which were spent as producer

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She created a Diversity Scholarship at SNL in 2020, and she will remain involved with the program.

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Main reason : she expressed that she was looking forward to stepping away from ‘wild late-night life’ and focusing on raising her daughter Maddie, nine.

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She then wrote that she was grateful for the help and support that she had received from her collaborators over the years.

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Shookus concluded her statement by expressing that she was optimistic about her near future

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