Sabrina Carpenter Confesses Her ‘Greatest Fear’ in ‘SNL’ Promos — And It’s Exactly the Same as Marcello Hernandez’s

This weekend, Sabrina Carpenter volition instrumentality to the Saturday Night Live signifier — but this time, she’ll beryllium hosting.

In caller promos for her treble work arsenic big and philharmonic impermanent connected Saturday’s show, Carpenter scoffs erstwhile castmember Marcello Hernandez asks if she’s “scared to host.”

“Me? I execute successful beforehand of thousands of screaming fans each night,” Carpenter replies casually.

“So you’re not scared?” Hernandez asks, to which Carpenter responds, “No. I’m terrified. But not of hosting. Deep down, my top fearfulness is…”

At this point, Carpenter and Hernandez stock their identical top fearfulness successful unison: ” …My dentist grows a truly agelong beard and during the assignment it tickles my chest.” The brace look astatine each different stunned and conscionable locomotion away.

Elsewhere successful the promos, Carpenter and Hernandez springiness a pep speech to immoderate viewers who mightiness beryllium washing dishes, and Carpenter threatens to apprehension the cameraman for being excessively blistery — conscionable similar she does successful the assemblage connected her Short n’ Sweet Tour.

In fact, she antecedently arrested Hernandez, successful quality arsenic Domingo, astatine 1 of her Los Angeles shows past year. He was reprising his relation arsenic the seductive SNL quality who originated successful a viral sketch past autumn acceptable to the tune of Carpenter’s smash deed “Espresso.” “My name’s Domingo,” Hernandez said from the assemblage to chaotic cheers, aft catching Carpenter’s attention. When Carpenter asks wherever he’s from (“I’m from Miami, baby,” helium growls), she replies, “I privation you were from my bedroom.”

While it’s her archetypal clip hosting, Carpenter was a philharmonic impermanent successful May 2024 and she besides popped up connected February’s SNL50 special, duetting with Paul Simon and co-starring with Pedro Pascual successful a caller Domingo sketch. Carpenter is presently backmost connected her Short n’ Sweet Tour — though she’s besides promoting her August medium Man’s Best Friend this clip astir — and she’ll instrumentality to L.A. for six caller dates, wrapping Nov. 23.

Saturday Night Live airs astatine 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT connected NBC and streams connected Peacock. (See each the options to watch SNL here.) Watch the caller promos below: