{"id":94922,"date":"2026-03-29T23:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=94922"},"modified":"2026-03-29T23:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:59:07","slug":"snl-uks-breakout-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/03\/29\/snl-uks-breakout-star\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL UK&#8217;s Breakout Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have time for a very quick <strong><em>Ask Billy<\/em><\/strong> question.&nbsp; <strong>Darren <\/strong>in NYC asks, \u201c<em>I just caught the first episode of <\/em><strong>SNL UK<\/strong><em>.&nbsp; Who was the cute guy who played <strong>Princess Diana<\/strong>?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That would be <strong>Jack Shep<\/strong>, who is 25 years old and openly gay, which I\u2019m sure comes as no surprise to any of my readers.&nbsp; He started out doing skits on <em>TikTok <\/em>as a teen and has been working steadily.&nbsp; He\u2019s the youngest cast member on <em>SNL UK<\/em> and, while he did several skits in the premiere episode, his \u201cShy Di\u201d in <strong><em>The Last Supper of David Attenborough<\/em><\/strong> went viral.&nbsp; The following week he topped himself (if that\u2019s possible) by playing the former <strong>Prince Andrew<\/strong>.&nbsp; Needless to say, you can see both on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>When someone can play both Prince Andrew and Princess Diana, it\u2019s definitely time to end yet another column.&nbsp; Talk about range.&nbsp; Of course, you can find a whole range of content on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 the site that is truly versatile.&nbsp; If you have a question, send it along to <strong><a href=\"mailto:Billy@BillyMasters.com\">Billy@BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong> and I promise to get back to you before JoJo Siwa is cast as Grizabella!&nbsp; Until next time, remember, one man\u2019s filth is another man\u2019s bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have time for a very quick Ask Billy question.&nbsp; Darren in NYC asks, \u201cI just caught the first episode of SNL UK.&nbsp; Who was the cute guy who played Princess Diana?\u201d That would be Jack Shep, who is 25 years old and openly gay, which I\u2019m sure comes as no surprise to any of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94923,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94922\/revisions\/94923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}