More “Saturday Night Live” staple characters will be disappearing: Alex Moffat, Melissa Villaseñor and newcomer Aristotle Athiras will be departing the series come Season 48, TheWrap has learned.
They are now among seven cast members who have announced exits from the long-running NBC series, joining Kate McKinnon, Pete Davidson, Aidy Bryant and Kyle Mooney.
NBC declined to comment on the matter.
Moffat joined the series as a featured player in 2016 and became a main cast member in 2018. Villaseñor also joined “SNL” in 2016. Athiras made his first appearance in 2021 for Season 47.
The departures from “SNL” mainstays are not entirely unexpected, since honcho Lorne Michaels previously hinted that the next season of the long-running NBC sketch show would be “a year of change.”