Martha Stewart's 'only big regret' is her probation officer not letting her host 'Saturday Night Live'
- Martha Stewart is "really pissed" her probation officer didn't let her host "Saturday Night Live."
- Stewart told Harper's Bazaar the show asked her to host but her probation officer didn't allow it.
- In late 2004, she went to prison for five months for lying about a stock sale.
Martha Stewart is good at a lot of different things, like being a successful businesswoman, a trendsetter, and even a teen model.
However, there's at least one thing missing from her lengthy resumé: "Saturday Night Live" host.
Speaking with Harper's Bazaar's Jada Yuan for an interview published Tuesday, Stewart said that she'd been approached to host the popular late-night sketch comedy show after her prison sentence but her probation officer at the time didn't allow it.
"My only big regret that I can talk about is that 'Saturday Night Live' asked me to host. My probation officer wouldn't give me the time," Stewart told Yuan.
"That really pissed me off, because I would have loved to have hosted 'Saturday Night Live.' I'd like that on my résumé," she added.
In late 2004 and early 2005, the businesswoman spent five months in a minimum-security prison and five months in home confinement after being convicted for lying about a stock sale. According to the same Harper's Bazaar feature, Stewart's charges included conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and lying about insider trading. She has opened up about her experience in prison a number of times in the past, calling it "horrifying."
'Saturday Night Live' actors have impersonated Stewart in skits on numerous occasions
Actors like Rachel Dratch, pictured above, Ana Gasteyer, and even David Spade have impersonated Stewart for "Saturday Night Live" skits while donning a wig mimicking her blonde bob.
After Stewart was photographed leaving prison in an immediately iconic gray poncho, Spade spoofed it in a skit where he, playing Stewart, sported the same poncho. The segment parodied Stewart's return to work at her media company after serving her sentence.
Stewart responded by inviting Spade onto her show, "The Martha Stewart Show," Yuan writes, where both of them wore the gray poncho and were joined by one of Martha's dogs, who also wore a version of it.
In November, Stewart told People magazine that she still has that same "gorgeous crocheted poncho" stored away in her attic.