Margot Robbie to host “Saturday Night Live” season 42 premiereSeptember 23, 2016 - 13:30 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - "Saturday Night Live" has finally announced the first host of its season 42, after asking fans on Twitter for suggestions about who should host the show this coming season. Margot Robbie has been tapped to tackle the duty for the season premiere on October 1 at 11:30 P.M. on NBC, AceShowbiz said. The 26-year-old actress will be joined by The Weeknd, who is set to release his new album "Starboy" on November 25, as musical guest. This will be Robbie's first time hosting the show, and The Weeknd's second time performing on the show. The "Can't Feel My Face" hitmaker previously served as musical guest on the long-running sketch series last year, when Amy Schumer was hosting. Robbie is known for her role as Naomi Lapaglia in "The Wolf of Wall Street", Jess Barrett in "Focus" and Harley Quinn in "Suicide Squad". She also starred as Jane Porter opposite Alexander Skarsgard in David Yates' "The Legend of Tarzan". "SNL" has added several cast members, Mikey Day (who was a writer on the show), Alex Moffat and Melissa Villasenor, to fill the void left by departing players Jay Pharoah, Taran Killam and Jon Rudnitsky. Meanwhile, Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider have been promoted to co-head writers. Top stories Ara Aivazian said Azerbaijan continues the traditions of Turkey after seizing territories and forced Armenians out. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | International cybercrime ringleaders arrested in Armenia, Ukraine Europol, Europe's crime agency, has arrested four ringleaders of several cybercrime networks that used botnets. Armenia skips CSTO Defense Ministers meeting A meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization countries began in Almaty. Armenian, Iranian foreigh policy chief talk over the phone The Foreign Minister of Armenia once again expressed condolences to his counterpart on the death of the President of Iran. Armenia, U.S. customs authorities to boost assistance with new deal The government has approved an agreement with the U.S. government on mutual assistance between the customs authorities. |