by Kristen HarrisBuzzFeedBuzzFeed Staff Saturday Night Live is known as a place where famous people fall in love. I mean, there's a reason Bowen Yang told Rolling Stone, "Lorne [Michaels] has a wonderful little matchmaking service, inadvertently." Here are 23 SNL cast members who dated their costars, crew, or hosts: 1. Pete Davidson had a whirlwind engagement to host/musical guest Ariana Grande in 2018. Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for American Express They met on his debut episode in 2014. She was the musical guest that night. On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, she recalled, "I'm not a crush-y person, I don't have, like, crushes on people I don't know. But I left [Pete's writing room at SNL], and I jokingly said to my tour manager - I was like, 'I'm marrying him 100 percent.' I was like, 'I'm literally marrying him.'" NBC / NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images Ariana returned to the show two years later. Then, in 2018, she got back in touch with Pete while promoting her album in the Big Apple. Scooter Braun, her manager at the time, was going to visit him at 30 Rock, so she told him, "Tell him I said hi." She told Beats 1, "He texted me, 'Yo, it's Pete,' and we were inseparable." Gotham / GC Images / Via Getty Pete told Howard Stern, "Scooter told me she was somewhat interested in me. I thought that he was just full of shit."He joined mutual friends at her apartment for a hangout after the Met Gala, completely oblivious to the fact that he was on a date. He said, "I had to ask her friend if it was OK if I stayed. I was like, 'Hey, I should leave, right? She hates me, right?' And he was like, 'No, I think you should stay.'"They played Quiplash for two hours. Pete continued, "I'm so stupid and unaware of how chemistry and all that stuff works. I literally was like, 'Hi, can I kiss you please?' We played the game, everybody left, and then it was just me and her. And I was like, 'Well, if there was ever a shot, it would be now. Go for it.'" Around a month into their relationship, Pete and Ariana announced their engagement. She told the Zach Sang Show, "We were just hanging out, and he had a ring, and he just asked me. It was really sweet. He didn't get on a knee or anything, thank God...oh my God, that would've been so googly. I'm not like a very traditional person, so the fact that I'm even getting married is something I never even saw coming...like, I never wanted that. I was like, 'Fuck that, there's no point...what's the point?' And then I kinda understood it when it was, like, with the right person." Nicholas Hunt / Getty Images for MTV Here are some highlights from their relationship:• Ariana wrote a song about Pete, aptly titled "Pete Davidson." She told The Tonight Show, "I just made it, and I sent it to him, and I didn't know what to call it, so I just called it 'Pete.' It was going to be that or like, 'This Is About Pete Davidson.' I was like, why not just be direct?"• Referring to the song, a fan on Twitter asked Ariana "how long Pete is." She reportedly replied, "Like 10 inches? ...oh fuck...I mean...like a lil over a minute." She deleted the tweet quickly, but a response from a user named Tina coined a new phrase in the public lexicon: "Pete Davidson is 6'3 with dark circles, exudes big dick energy, looks evil but apparently is an angel, and loves his girl publicly."• The couple adopted a pet pig named Piggy Smallz.• They got a ton of matching tattoos. They called off their engagement that October. Pete knew their relationship was ending after the death of Mac Miller, Ariana's ex-boyfriend and longtime friend. He told Charlamagne Tha God, "I totally got it. She would even tell you this. I was like, 'Listen, I get it, do whatever you've got to do, I'll be here.' I think I said, 'I'll be here until you don't want me to be here.' I pretty much knew it was around over after that. That was really horrible, and I can't imagine what that shit is like. All I do know is that she really loved the shit out of him, and she wasn't putting on a show or anything. That was fucked up. Prayers to his family and all of his friends." Raymond Hall / GC Images / Via Getty The fallout from their breakup was arguably more dramatic than their relationship. A few weeks later, Ariana name-dropped Pete (and several other exes) on her surprise release "Thank U, Next." Republic Records / Via youtube.com A year later, she told Vogue, "My friends were like, 'Come [to New York]! We're gonna have a fun summer.' And then I met Pete, and it was an amazing distraction. It was frivolous and fun and insane and highly unrealistic, and I loved him, and I didn't know him. I'm like an infant when it comes to real life and this old soul, been-around-the-block-a-million-times artist. I still don't trust myself with the life stuff."Then, in his 2020 Netflix special Alive From New York, Pete called out her comments. He said, "Can you imagine if I did that? My career would be over tomorrow. If I spray-painted myself brown and hopped on t
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