Here's Who Won't Be Returning For 'snl' Season 51

Some beloved longtime "Saturday Night Live" formed members won't beryllium returning for Season 51, including eight-season seasoned Heidi Gardner.

It comes arsenic "SNL" creator Lorne Michaels told Puck he'd shingle things up ahead of nan adjacent play of nan iconic drama sketch series.

Cast members Devon Walker, Michael Longfellow and Emil Wakim, arsenic good arsenic writer Celeste Yim, person besides announced they’re leaving nan coveted drama stage.

Here's who's leaving:

Heidi Gardner

Gardner won't beryllium returning aft an epic eight-year tally connected nan "Saturday Night Live" stage, NBC News has learned. Her departure was first reported by Variety.

NBC did not remark publically connected Gardner’s departure. Gardner hasn't spoken connected her exit. She made her “SNL” debut successful 2017 connected Season 43.

She was nan longest-tenured female formed personnel during Season 50, according to Rolling Stone.

Gardner appeared successful a assortment of sketches, and was known for her Weekend Update characters "Bailey Gismert," a cringy teenage movie critic, and "Angel, Every Boxer’s Girlfriend from Every Movie About Boxing Ever."

Gardner's besides has a flourishing profession extracurricular of 30 Rock, appearing successful nan Apple TV+ bid “Shrinking,” and films “Hustle,” “Life of nan Party” and “Trust Fall.”

Devon Walker

Walker announced his departure connected Instagram Monday, pinch nan caption: “me and babe collapsed up.”

“To me, jobs successful this manufacture consciousness for illustration a bunch of small marriages. Some of em past for a agelong clip if we’re lucky, but astir of them are fleeting,” he wrote. “Me and nan show did 3 years together, and sometimes it was really cool. Sometimes it was toxic arsenic hell. But we did what we made nan astir of what it was, moreover amidst each of nan dysfunction.”

Michael Longfellow

Longfellow called his tenure “the champion 3 years of my life truthful far.”

“Will not beryllium returning for a 4th play astatine SNL. Wish I was but, truthful it goes,” he wrote Thursday connected Instagram. “I consciousness thing but gratitude for nan acquisition and everyone there. Lorne, you gave maine nan top occupation successful nan world and changed my life. You moreover put my mom connected TV. Thank you doesnt statesman to screen it, but convey you.”

Emil Wakim

Wakim, a featured subordinate connected nan show, said Wednesday “it was a gut punch of a call” to study he won't return for "SNL's" adjacent season.

“Every clip one scanned into nan building one would deliberation really insane it is to get to activity there. it was nan astir terrifying, thrilling, and rewarding acquisition of my life and one will miss it dearly and each nan superb group that activity location that made it consciousness for illustration a home,” Wakim wrote connected Instagram.

“i was truthful fortunate to bring immoderate of myself successful location and opportunity things one believed successful and i’m excited for immoderate section comes next. here’s to making much creation without compromise,” he added.

Celeste Yim

Yim bid farewell to nan show aft 5 seasons arsenic a writer, saying nan occupation “literally made each of my dreams travel existent BUT it was besides grueling.”

“I loved it and I laughed each time and it’s wherever I grew up,” Yim wrote Sunday connected Instagram.

Yim besides noted that they are nan “first ever retired trans personification to beryllium a writer for SNL.”

”I ever felt honored to beryllium moving wrong nan agelong contented of queer penning astatine nan show,” Yim wrote. “I consciousness truthful powerless to protect trans group successful nan world but penning connects america and makes america permanent, truthful it’s what I will proceed to do.”

Season 51 premieres connected Oct. 4 connected NBC.