Despite nine cast members having impersonated Martha Stewart on “Saturday Night Live,” the diva of domesticity has never hosted the iconic sketch comedy series.
Stewart revealed this week that she had an offer on the table to host the show shortly after her release from prison in 2005, but her parole officer put the kibosh on it.
“I wanted to and they asked me as I was coming out of Alderson, that camp that I was in for a while, and my parole officer wouldn’t give me the time to do it,” she told Jimmy Fallon on Monday’s episode of “The Tonight Show.”
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Stewart spent five months at a minimum-security federal correctional facility in Alderson, West Virginia. (Getty)
Stewart noted that in the wake of her release, she was only allowed to be out of the house for eight hours a day. The weekly production schedule for “SNL” — of which Fallon is an alum — is notoriously grueling.
“The parole officer said ‘No?’ ” he probed.
“No,” she replied, quipping, “That bastard!”
Stewart previously claimed that not being able to host the show is her “only big regret” in life, but the 83-year-old lifestyle guru isn’t giving up hope.
“Maybe someday… I would be amazing,” she told Fallon, then suggested: “Start a campaign!”
But before that happens, Stewart could appear on the wildly popular Peacock series “The Traitors” after hearing that host Alan Cumming wants her as a potential competitor for the next season of the backstabbing reality show.
“It would be sort of fun. I’m trying to do everything that’s fun,” she told Fallon, though admitted she’s never watched the show.
In 2004, Stewart was sentenced to serve five months in West Virginia’s Alderson Federal Prison Camp and two years probation for insider trading.
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