{"id":334981,"date":"2010-02-18T09:41:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=93607"},"modified":"2010-02-18T09:41:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:41:56","slug":"rue-mcclanahan-%e2%80%9csnl%e2%80%9d-hosting-campaign-hits-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/334981","title":{"rendered":"Rue McClanahan \u201cSNL\u201d Hosting Campaign Hits Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Betty-White-Rue-McClanahan-Die-Soon-Card-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Betty White Rue McClanahan Die Soon Card\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-91620\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Betty White isn&#8217;t the only &#8220;Golden Girl&#8221; with a legion of fans fighting to bring her to late-night! Rue McClanahan played aging vamp Blanche alongside Betty on the &#8217;80s comedy <em>The Golden Girls <\/em>, and fans still haven&#8217;t forgotten how the star&#8217;s portrayal of the sex-charged Southern belle split sides and left audiences in stitches. A few hundred of Rue&#8217;s fan have taken to Facebook with a campaign to get the 75-year-old her first hosting gig on NBC&#8217;s <em>Saturday Night Live. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Betty White shouldn&#8217;t be the only one who gets to host SNL. What about the original cougar Rue McClanahan? Let&#8217;s hear it for our girl! Betty White shouldn&#8217;t have all the fun,&#8221; <\/em> reads <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Rue-McClanahan-to-Host-SNL-please\/341230322951\">The Rue McClanahan to Host SNL <\/a>(please)! page.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-93607\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Rue McClanahan on SNL&#8221; campaign comes on the heels of a similar Facebook campaign attracted nearly a half million followers with a plea to series creator Lorne Michaels to invite 88-year-old Betty appear to guest host the sketch comedy series. <\/p>\n<p>Rue&#8217;s still recovering from a stroke she suffered after heart surgery late last year. She&#8217;s also going through a divorce from her husband of 12 years. However, if Rue&#8217;s feeling up to it, we&#8217;d love to see the two surviving &#8220;Golden Girls&#8221; co-host <em>SNL<\/em> together. That would be awesome! Are you listening, <em>SNL<\/em>? Get these ladies booked already&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ogxe5VEXl1VjWaHGI7PB2qAg_sU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ogxe5VEXl1VjWaHGI7PB2qAg_sU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ogxe5VEXl1VjWaHGI7PB2qAg_sU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ogxe5VEXl1VjWaHGI7PB2qAg_sU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betty White isn&#8217;t the only &#8220;Golden Girl&#8221; with a legion of fans fighting to bring her to late-night! Rue McClanahan played aging vamp Blanche alongside Betty on the &#8217;80s comedy The Golden Girls , and fans still haven&#8217;t forgotten how the star&#8217;s portrayal of the sex-charged Southern belle split sides and left audiences in stitches. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}