Golden Girls legend Betty White is stunned fans have set up a group on Facebook campaigning to land her a job as host on Saturday Night Live – because she thought people would be sick of seeing her on TV by now!
David Mathews, a lifelong Betty White Fan, created The Betty White Facebook Fan Page last month and sent a letter to the SNL creator Lorne Michaels, imploring him to give the comedy legend a shot on SNL, when the fan page reached 5,000 followers. Over 330,000 members of the website have signed a petition to urge show bosses to consider letting White act as a celebrity host on the long-running sketch show for the first time in her more than 50 year career.
The campaign follows 88-year-old Betty’s popular Super Bowl ad for Snickers. The actress is overwhelmed by so many people’s desire to see her back on the small screen.
She tells E! Online: “I’m just amazed. I would think by now that they’ve had such an overdose of Betty White that they’d be throwing rocks instead. (It) would depend on scheduling and all that. But who knows? You can’t ever say yes or no or never – you just wait to see what happens.”