SNL on Casey Wilson's Weight Story: "Not True"

Saturday Night Live responds to our story about castmember Casey Wilson’s firing

By Ted Casablanca, Becky Bain Sep 15, 2009 1:05 PMTags
Casey Wilson, SNLDana Edelson/NBC

Has hell frozen over at 30 Rock? Saturday Night Live's peeps broke their typical no-comment silence to finally respond to our story on Casey Wilson being asked to drop 30 pounds right before she was canned. Too bad they didn't bother to tell us, how tacky! Instead, the heathens told The Wrap that it's "not true...her contract was simply not renewed." 

Sorry, our top inside sources stick by their stories about what they heard happened behind the comedy scenes: that Case's figure wasn't totally A-OK with the big bosses. But we hope SNL's reps are telling the truth that Wilson was axed for nonweighty reasons.

Though it sure woulda been nice if they'd told us when we first asked for a comment. Casey's even called us out herself...

She wasn't fired for being fat, she said, but for being "too phat. Can I get a what what!" And people don't think this babe is funny

And for the record, we don't think Casey's fat—we never once said she was. She's just not a starving lollipop-headed stick figure, and in H'wood, that automatically makes ya obese. We love voluptuous gals here at the A.T. In fact, we wish there were far more curvy gals on the boob tube. We're sorry Wilson's no longer one of 'em.

Let's get real: Time to let the broads eat and belch all they want, and let's start making the dudes whisper and waste down to sizes half their natural-born form. See how you like it, guys!