Pete Davidson Says It Felt Like 'A Joke' to Get 'SNL' Job at Age 20 (Video)

Star of BBC show Dragon’s Den Peter Jones has revealed he was “rushed to hospital” after “collapsing on the floor” due to suffering deep vein thrombosis, known as DVT. Peter, 55, revealed the horrifying tale following a businessman looking for an investor on a recent episode of the BBC show, who was sharing his pitch to the dragons for a new product to treat deep vein thrombosis.The hopeful was Paul Westerman who was pitching his new product RBR Legflow which has been clinically-trialled and is designed to treat the condition.The pitch stirred up memories for Peter who shared his frightening 2011 experience. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter.

PC Music have announced details of their new ‘Vol. 3’ compilation, featuring Charli XCX, Clairo and Caroline Polachek among others.Arriving nearly six years after the label’s ‘Vol. 2’ compilation, the new record will come out on May 13.The following month, PC Music will host a special label showcase at the newly reopened KOKO venue in London.Others included on the album are Hannah Diamond, Tommy Cash, A.G.

Machine Gun Kelly has returned to his roots on the emo rap track ‘Ay’, which features Lil Wayne – check it out below.‘Ay’ is taken from Machine Gun Kelly’s upcoming album ‘Mainstream Sellout’ and sees the rap star turned rock star singing over an acoustic guitar, in the same vein as ‘Play This When I’m Gone’ from 2020’s ‘Tickets To My Downfall’.Lil Wayne then hops on the track for a verse that references Guns N’ Roses, though only a drawing of the rap icon appears in the accompanying music video, which was shot by MGK in his living room the day before ‘Ay’ was released.The emo rap track follows on from pop punk bangers ‘Emo Girl’ (featuring Willow) and ‘Papercuts’, all of which are set to appear on ‘Mainstream Sellout’.Check out the video for ‘Ay’ below:Machine Gun Kelly played a snippet of ‘Ay’ during his appearance on The Late Late Show last month, alongside another unreleased track ‘Maybe’.Earlier this year, MGK confirmed that he would be changing the name of his upcoming sixth album from ‘Born With Horns’ to ‘Mainstream Sellout’. The name change came after both he and Blink 182’s Travis Barker (who’s executive producer for the record) got matching ‘Born With Horns’ tattoos.The follow-up to 2020’s ‘Tickets To My Downfall’ is set to be “more guitar-heavy” and lyrically “deeper”, MGK said last year.“Every album is a juxtaposition of the last album.

A fine Saturday of racing ahead as we are at Newbury, Kelso, Doncaster and Lingfield.

EastEnders favourite Nitin Ganatra has opened up about his family being targeted by thugs over the years at his family’s corner shop. The BBC soap star, 54, has recently spoken out about his family’s corner shop “being targeted a lot” when he was growing up.The actor played popular character Masood Ahmed for over ten years on EastEnders, from 2007 until he left the popular soap in 2019. Nitin chatted openly on the Made in the Midlands podcast.

The Suicide Squad star Pete Davidson has teased some details of his yet-to-be-revealed character in the DC movie.The actor and comedian is among the stellar cast for James Gunn's reboot of the series... though all we know about his role is that he'll be wearing a big costume and wielding guns.Speaking to Yahoo Movies UK, Davidson compared the movie to his new release The King of Staten Island, saying: "I was in a big, uncomfortable costume.

Marisa Tomei isn't terribly happy with the direction her career is heading. The Oscar-winning actress recently spoke with Collider, revealing that she wishes she hadn't taken so many maternal roles of late, such as in "The King of Staten Island," in which she plays the mother of Pete Davidson's character.

To paraphrase the immortal words of Carrie Fisher, Pete Davidson is finally taking his broken heart and turning it into art. Since his early days as a teenage stand-up comic through to becoming one of the youngest people to ever join the cast of Saturday Night Live—not to mention its first cast member born in the 1990s—the trauma of Davidson's childhood had been a part of his story.

Pete Davidson is opening up about his love life.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThough “The King of Staten Island” is based in part on the real life of Pete Davidson, costume designer Sarah Mae Burton (“The Big Sick”) knew she didn’t want Davidson’s character to look like the “SNL” cast member.“Pete has a distinctive style [“scrumbo” — logos, sweats, Hawaiian shirts and neon] in the media, and we wanted to make sure we weren’t dressing him like that,” she says. In the Judd Apatow film, which Universal is offering on VOD on June 12, Davidson plays Scott, a young man still mourning his firefighter father, who died on the job when Scott was 7 (the same age Davidson lost his dad, a firefighter, in the 9/11 terror attacks).

Pete Davidson has paid tribute to his dad in a world that now has a greater appreciation for first responders.

Pete Davidson is giving back to a cause that's close to his heart. During his virtual visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live, the Saturday Night Live star paid tribute to his late father Scott Davidson, who was a first responder that was killed in the line of duty in the September 11, 2001 attacks, with a special donation in his honor.  Joined by his mother Amy Davidson, Pete shared that he had donated to Answer The Call, which provides financial assistance and support to families of New York City police officers, firefighters and EMS personnel who have been killed in the line of duty, and explained his family's deep connection to the charity.

Rebecca Rubin News Editor, OnlineIt didn’t take much convincing to get Bill Burr to join the cast of “The King of Staten Island,” a comedy from Judd Apatow that’s loosely based on Pete Davidson’s upbringing in New York’s least glamorous borough. As a fan of Apatow’s work, Burr wasn’t about to pass up an opportunity to collaborate with the director behind favorites like “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” “Knocked Up” and “Trainwreck.” Still, he went along with the formalities for sport.“Judd was on my podcast,” Burr recalled.

Judd Apatow has said working with Lena Dunham on Girls helped him collaborate with Pete Davidson on a new film about his issues following the loss of his father.

Pete Davidson has said he hoped making a film that addressed his grief over the death of his father would help him “move forward, and find that new chapter in life”.

Pete Davidson’s new film, The King Of Staten Island, helped him come to terms with the death of his firefighter father.The actor, who lost his dad in the 9/11 terrorist attack on New York City in 2001, portrays an aspiring tattoo artist, struggling to process the death of his father 17 years prior in the comedy he co-wrote.“I really wanted this to be cleansing for me,” the Saturday Night Live regular tells CBS This Morning. “I feel like I got to speak about it in the biggest way possible to get my story out there.

The Saturday Night Live cast member opened up about his mental health struggles and even dealing with suicidal thoughts! That being said, Pete Davidson revealed that he got as close as one can get to ending his own life! During a new interview for CBS Sunday Morning, the comedian talked about his upcoming movie Staten Island King, which is a semi-autobiographical project. Furthermore, since the film that is expected to come out on June 12 relates a lot to his own experiences, Pete got candid about more very delicate and personal parts of his life.

The King of Staten Island – this time to recount the story of grief-stricken tattoo artist Scott Carlin as he navigates life in New York, inspired by star Pete Davidson’s own life experiences.Troubled by the passing of his firefighter father when he was 7, now twenty-something Carlin (Davidson) spends his days getting stoned and practicing his sketchy tattoo artistry on his friends. His younger sister Claire (Maude Apatow) has gone off to college while his mother Margie (Marisa Tomei) is looking to bring love back into her life; Scott, however, lacks that same structure – unable to even commit to his childhood sweetheart Kelsey (Bel Powley).

Pete Davidson is used to making fun of himself — whether it's peppering an interview with self-deprecating jokes or shrugging his way through good-natured anecdotes about drugs and therapy at 's desk. But in things are getting a little more serious.The 26-year-old comedian cowrote the semiautobiographical film with pal Dave Sirus and director Judd Apatow, and recently told ET that making the movie was a cathartic experience for him, personally and professionally.«I kind of feel a little bit misunderstood,» he admitted, «and I feel like, it's a really tricky situation, but I think what Judd and I and Dave Sirus did, I think hopefully it'll get that point across better.»«It's a love letter to pretty much my whole family,» he added.

Pete Davidson, 26, has had an exciting life, but it hasn’t always been easy. The comedian was promoting his new semi-autobiographical film Staten Island King, which comes out on June 12, when he gave a tell-all interview to CBS Sunday Morning, which aired on June 7. In the interview, he opened up about what he’s learned over the years during his time as a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live and revealed intimate details about when he contemplated suicide at the lowest time in his life.

borrows a lot of heavy realities from the “Saturday Night Live” star’s own life: his character Scott lost his firefighter father at age 7; he still lives on Staten Island with his mom; and he makes more brow-raising choices than Kanye.And, also like the real-life Davidson, there is nary a moment where Scott isn’t the most likable person on the damn planet.That’s director Judd Apatow’s signature move: taking a talent we love — Davidson, Steve Carell, Amy Schumer, tenderizing them with a cinematic meat mallet and delivering an emotional wallop of a film we didn’t know they were capable of.“The King of Staten Island,” which is co-written by Davidson, Apatow and Dave Sirus, is a grounded fantasy of what the actor’s life might’ve turned out to

Pete Davidson is opening up about what was undoubtedly the most difficult time in his life.

Pete Davidson opened up about his mental health in a candid interview, talking about a dark time in his life when he contemplated suicide. The 26-year-old "Saturday Night Live" star said on “CBS Sunday Morning” that he was "as close as you can get" in reference to taking his own life.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticScott Carlin (Pete Davidson), the loser hero of “The King of Staten Island,” is a 24-year-old trash-talking punk stoner who lives with his mother in Staten Island and has no plans whatsoever — for a career, a life, or the next five minutes. He’s a slacker, a lout, and a self-pitying anger-management case who has never gotten over the death of his firefighter father 17 years ago.

2 stars (out of 4)“There’s, like, something wrong with me,” Pete Davidson says to a girl early in The King of Staten Island. The two friends-with-benefits have just slept together, and now she wants a legit relationship.

Pete Davidson opened up about his experiences with suicidal thoughts in a new interview.During a sit-down with CBS Sunday Morning, the 26-year-old Saturday Night Live star addressed his past struggles while discussing his semi-autobiographical film, The King of Staten Island. He revealed that his issues worsened as his celebrity status grew, his lowest point occurred in 2017.“I got as close as you can get.

available Friday on demand, is at least partly autobiographical, with Pete starring as a lovable and awkward butt-of-jokes pothead trying to deal with emotional issues while searching for a place in the world.Written by Pete, his pal Dave Sirus and director Judd Apatow, it imagines how the “Saturday Night Live” star’s life might have shaken out if he had not hit it big in comedy.Pete plays an aspiring tattoo artist — named Scott, like Pete’s real dad — living with his mom, struggling over the death of his father and unable to cut the apron strings.

Pete Davidson isn’t going anywhere just yet. The comedian has no plans on leaving Saturday Night Live at the moment despite slamming the variety show back in February.SNL’s Most Successful Stars“I will be there as long as they allow me to be,” Davidson, 26, told Entertainment Tonight in a recent interview, which was published on Friday, June 5.

Pete Davidson has suggested before that he hasn’t had the best experience as part of the Saturday Night Live cast but is he planning on finally leaving the longtime comedy show? The comedian opened you about his future on SNL, on which he has worked for nearly six years. Pete is currently promoting his upcoming movie, The King of Staten Island, but of course, he was also asked about SNL during an interview for ET.

Pete Davidson has been part of 's cast for almost six years — and says he isn't planning to leave anytime soon. While promoting his upcoming film,, the 26-year-old comedian touched on his future at the legendary comedy sketch show.«I will be there as long as they allow me to be,» Davidson told ET's Lauren Zima.