Keke Palmer’s Boyfriend Celebrates Dinky one on the Arrangement as Star Aspects Her Rising Bump in SNL Sketches

Keke Palmer is bumping along!

Over the weekend, the actress, 29, hosted Saturday Night Reside for the important thing time, the assign she revealed that she is pregnant and awaiting her first limited one with boyfriend Darius Jackson all the procedure by procedure of her opening monologue.

Halfway by procedure of the present, Palmer obtained some make stronger from Jackson on social media when he shared a candy photograph on his Instagram Chronicle of the Nope star from a dinner race.

“2023 ❤️,” he wrote alongside a say of Palmer that showed her rising abdominal prominent under a brown sweater gown.

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All the procedure by procedure of her SNL cyber internet hosting gig, Palmer let her limited one bump play a impartial all the procedure by procedure of two sketches — as soon as in a Kenan and Kel reboot sketch with Kenan Thompson, and one other as a mom who goes to an ultrasound appointment to test in on her rambunctious twins.

In her sketch reverse Thompson, 44, Palmer performed Kelly in a within the attend of-the-scenes documentary that showed how she convinced the SNL historic to enact the present, which she desired to relish a more dramatic race on it than the distinctive Nineties sequence.

At one level, after Thompson’s persona yells at Palmer’s, she breaks down in an emotional 2nd and tells him, “Don’t shout at me, reason guess what? I’m pregnant with your limited one.” The scene prompts Thompson to admit in a confessional-cherish setting, “Keke used to be gunning for an Emmy Award, so she wanted gritty, dramatic moments in it.”

Meanwhile, within the assorted sketch that aired later within the night, Palmer performed a mom awaiting twins who possess portion in some much less-than-wholesome habits, along with smoking within the womb and ordering fish food products from McDonald’s.

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All the procedure by procedure of her opening monologue, Palmer teased that there were “some rumors going around, individuals were in my comments asserting, ‘Keke’s having a limited one, Keke’s pregnant,’ ” earlier than she “assign of abode the memoir straight” and revealed she is certainly awaiting, ripping open a long jacket to present her bump on the Studio 8H stage.

“I gotta philosophize, even though, it is unsuitable when individuals on the acquire unfold rumors about you y’all, nonetheless or no longer it’s even worse when they’re staunch. I point out, cherish, I was making an strive so though-provoking to withhold it on the down low, reason I obtained a ramification of stuff going on, you know?” she persisted. “… But truly this has been the largest blessing, and I’m so excited. Guys, I would possibly be a mom.”

Palmer added: “Despite the incontrovertible truth that some individuals in actuality feel a limited uncommon about me having a limited one reason I was a limited one actor, I comely wanna philosophize, stare, I’m 29, I’m grown, I relish sex, I’ve a dwelling, I stormed the Capitol on January 6, you know? Things adults enact.”

SNL will return on Dec. 10 with Steve Martin and Martin Brief as hosts and Brandi Carlile as musical visitor.