The Crystal Palace ‘SNL’ Star Ego Nwodim Sports Crystal Palace after the Ebelechi Eze Cousine leads the team to FA Cup victory
Ego Nwodim, a member of the distribution of “Saturday Night Live”, celebrated the end of the 50th historic season of The Usal Way, socializing on stage at the Studio 8H at the Rockefeller Center in New York.
She was there with the host, Scarlett Johansson, the musical guest, Bad Bunny and her colleagues member of the distribution. But his heart may have dreamed of celebrations on the other side of the Atlantic.
Nwodim made sure that the cameras captured her upper chest as she wore a Crystal Palace jersey with the name of her cousin, the English football star Ebelechi Eze, on the back.
A few hours earlier, Eze had helped Palace to win the first major trophy in its 120-year-old professional history, scoring the only goal of the 1-0 Eagles victory against Manchester City in the FA Cup final.
In an interview in 2023 for the Crystal Palace website, Eze revealed the family relationship and said that he had given Nwodim one of his jerseys.
“It’s my cousin,” he told a team interviewer who asked why an actor “SNL” had wore his jersey. “She went down to London and I gave her a shirt. So it’s pretty sick. “
The Nwodim shirt wore on Saturday match of the third shirt of the 2022/23 season club. She wore it at least another time in the series.
Nwodim and Eze share the Nigerian heritage Igbo, Eze having grown up in the courtyard of his team from South London and Nwodim in Baltimore.
Relatives were both part of the story on Saturday. “SNL” finished a 50 -season race that was launched when it was still a hippie showcase featuring folk stars and psychedelic comedy. Eze also led his team to a victory in a historic place – the Wembley stadium.
