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Some things are more important than family.
ForVanessa Bayer,that includes keeping the news that she was cast onSaturday Night Livea secret.
“Like, ‘We’ll let the press know soon,’ or whatever… “Nothing horrible had ever happened, but I was so warned.

Vanessa Bayer, ‘Saturday Night Live’.Credit:Dana Edelson/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
My agent in Chicago was like, ‘You cannot tell a soul.'”
Because I was like, ‘You cannot tell anyone.’
Just a month of lying to everyone close to me.”

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“[There was] just so much love in that room,“she previously said.
“These are my people.”