Breaking News: Aimee Lou Wood, aka our queen from The White Lotus, has officially revoked SNL’s comedy license after they came for her in a sketch that aired April 12. The sketch, titled The White POTUS (yes, really), mashed up political chaos and luxury vacations like it was some kind of weird HBO-C-SPAN crossover no one asked for.
So what went down? Well, the sketch had Jon Hamm (bless him) playing RFK Jr. asking, “What if we took all the fluoride out of the water? What would that do to people’s teeth?” Solid dental horror vibes.
Then enters SNL cast member Sarah Sherman as Aimee’s White Lotus character Chelsea, delivering the now-infamous line, “Fluoride, what’s that?” — with a Manchester accent so questionable it may have needed its own passport — and with prosthetic teeth so aggressively large, they looked like they were stolen from a cartoon beaver.
Plot twist: Aimee Lou Wood saw the sketch… and did not LOL.
She took to Instagram like the dignified British goddess she is, calling the portrayal “mean and unfunny.” (Translation: “Girl, no. Absolutely not. Try again.”)
“I actually loved the show a few weeks ago,” she said, probably sipping tea with pinky raised. “Roast away, that’s the SNL way! But this felt less ‘clever satire’ and more ‘oops we ran out of ideas so let’s go full Dollar Tree with it.’”
Aimee had beef with the accent too. Apparently it was so off it sounded more like “someone from outer space attempting to do Northern UK after watching 10 minutes of Coronation Street on mute.”
She added: “If you’re gonna drag me, at least do it with style. Like Regina George but with better diction.”
And the plot thickens: Aimee pointed out that her character was literally the only non-politician being mocked in the whole sketch. Everyone else? Public figures. Her? A sweet fictional hotel guest with a suitcase full of feelings and maybe two brain cells.
Fans flooded her DMs with support (thousands, allegedly — which is at least 998 more than the number of people who found that sketch funny), and soon enough… SNL apologized. Like, full-on we’re sorry please don’t cancel us, Aimee energy.
So moral of the story? Don’t come for Aimee Lou Wood unless you’re ready with a proper Manchester accent, a dentist’s blessing, and at least one actual joke.
