Maren Morris is giving her cheeky response after Shane Gillis' monologue on "Saturday Night Live" ignited backlash.
The country star took to Instagram on Monday, Oct. 12, posting a video, smiling and appearing nonchalant before she gave the camera a middle finger. She wrote on the screen, "me being a wh0re at the gym."
"Leave my gym short wedgie out of it," she captioned the post, soundtracked by her 2025 song "Be a B****."
Other stars, most notably "Schitt's Creek" star Dan Levy, have reacted to Gillis' comments, in which he joked, "I haven't been to the gym in so long, I didn't know women just dress like whores now."
Levy, in his own Instagram video, countered, "Women wearing short shorts to the gym does not make them whores. It makes the men calling
them whores misogynists." He added that "more men need to be standing up in opposition" to these kinds of comments because "it's complacency that has created the environment" in which women are sexually assaulted. "Men need to be defending women more. This is not a women's issue. This is an everybody issue."
And "SNL" alum Ego Nwodim threw a jab at the comments, posting a gym selfie to her Instagram story with the caption, "whore reporting for duty."
'SNL' star and Travis Kelce support Shane Gillis' monologue
Meanwhile, other stars have seemingly reacted more favorably. Former "SNL" star Jay Pharoah commented on the sketch show's Instagram post featuring the monologue, writing, "Let's go @shanemgillis" with laughing emojis, while previous host and husband of Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, appeared to like the post.
Gillis' Oct. 10 episode was his third time hosting "SNL." The comedian is known for bringing controversial stand-up material to the show each time he hosts, including in 2024, when he joked about having family members with Down syndrome during his debut monologue.
In 2019, Gillis was set to join the cast of "SNL," but he was fired before the season premiere over racist comments. At the time, executive producer Lorne Michaels said "SNL" was not aware of Gillis' past "offensive, hurtful and unacceptable" language. Michaels has since said he was unhappy with the firing and that it was NBC's decision to remove Gillis.
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