Olivia Rodrigo took a playful swipe at her former Bizaardvark co-star Jake Paulduring her hosting debut on Saturday Night Live in New York over the weekend, joking that while she pursued emotional pop anthems, he chose to 'beat up old guys on Netflix.'
The 23-year-old singer and the 29-year-old YouTuber-turned-boxer, who once shared a Disney Channel set, suddenly found themselves back in the same sentence as Rodrigo used her SNL monologue to poke fun at both their wildly different career paths.
Olivia Rodrigo and Jake Paul first crossed paths as teenagers on the Disney sitcom Bizaardvark, where they played content creators on a fictional video platform.
Since then, Rodrigo has become one of pop's biggest new stars with hit singles and two multi-platinum albums, while Paul has split opinion by leaving YouTube pranks behind for a lucrative boxing career and high-profile streaming bouts.
Rumours of any real-life feud between the pair have circulated among fans for years, but neither has publicly framed their relationship as anything more dramatic than colleagues whose lives moved in opposite directions.
On SNL, Rodrigo leaned straight into that narrative. Reflecting on her early days at Disney, she told the studio audience: 'When I was 13, I was on a Disney show called Bizaardvark, and we had an incredible cast, which included acting legend Jake Paul.'
The 'acting legend' line did some heavy lifting on its own, but she then pushed the joke further, sketching out the contrast between teenage ambition and adult reality.
'We'd always talk about our futures, me and Jake,' she said. 'I'd say, 'I really wanna create music that explores the complexities of girls my age,' and he'd say, 'Well, one day I really wanna beat up old guys on Netflix.' And we both did it, hooray!'
lol Olivia Rodrigo just called out Jake Paul during her SNL opening monologue. The two of them acted together on Disney Channel's show Bizaardvark"When I was 13 I was on a Disney show called Bizaardvark. We had an incredible cast, which included acting legend Jake Paul. We'd…pic.twitter.com/vt7ZnY7FIB
The jab landed because it sits close enough to the truth to sting.Paul has cultivated a boxing persona built on fighting older, often retired athletesin heavily promoted events with major streaming platforms.
Source: International Business Times UK
