Martha Stewart says parole officer stopped her from hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’
Martha Stewart is pictured during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on January 27.
By Lisa Respers France, CNN
(CNN) — Live from New York, it was not Martha Stewart.
During a recent appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” the lifestyle expert was asked if she’d ever host “Saturday Night Live.”
“I wanted to and they asked me as I was coming out of Alderson, that camp that I was in for a while, and my parole officer wouldn’t give me the time to do it,” she told a laughing Fallon.
The remark tickled the late-night host given that the “camp” was Stewart’s 2004 stint in Alderson Federal Prison related to a stock trade.
Stewart explained that she was only allowed to be out of the house for eight hours a day.
“And the parole officer said ‘No?’ ” Fallon asked.
“No,” she replied, joking, “That bastard!”
That doesn’t mean she’s given up hope.
“I’d be amazing,” she said of hosting. “Start a campaign!”
Stewart was sentenced to serve five months in the minimum security prison and two years probation for obstructing an investigation into her sale of ImClone stock.
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