NEW YORK (AP) — “Ghostbusters” star and “Saturday Night Live” cast member Leslie Jones is bringing her enthusiasm for the Olympic games to Rio itself.
NBC said Monday that Jones will join the networks’ Olympic coverage team on Friday. After seeing a series of tweets the comic had sent about the Olympics, including a video where she was wrapped in an American flag and wearing plastic gold medals, NBC Olympics Executive Producer Jim Bell invited her to join the team.
NBC says Jones will attend Olympic events, meet athletes and talk about the Games on the air and online.
Jones has moved up fast at NBC, joining “SNL” as a writer two years ago and becoming a cast member last year. She starred with Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon in “Ghostbusters.”
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To say that Leslie Jones is hyped about the Olympics is an understatement.
After her initial tweet about the games, the “Saturday Night Live” and ‘Ghostbusters” star went on to tweet comments and video commentary about pretty much every event that came across her television screen, flooding Twitter with so much written and video commentary that NBC took notice.
The network offered her a ticket to join their coverage in Rio after producer Mike Shoemaker caught wind of her social media activity. He tweeted fellow producer Jim Bell to get the actress on a plane.
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