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Tom Hanks worried some fans after looking a bit shaky during his recent Saturday Night Live appearance.
68 year old Forrest Gump star and quintuple SNL The host made a surprise cameo during the latest episode of NBC hit sketch comedy series to celebrate the holidays Martin Shorthe hosts the show for the fifth time.
With other five-time hosts including Emma Stone, Scarlett Johansson, Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, John Mulaney and Alec Baldwin – who has hosted the show a staggering 17 times – the group held an induction ceremony for a short time.
During a cold open skit, SNL cast member Bowen Yang brought out a tray of cocktails. As Hanks grabs one of the drinks to hand to Short, who is standing next to Fey, he quips, “May I offer you our signature cocktail, Marty Tina.”
Hanks’ hand looks visibly shaky as he holds his drink.
A number of people pointed out his shaking on social media, with one tweeting: “Did anyone notice Tom Hanks’ hands shaking unnaturally in this skit?”
Another on Threads added: “I noticed that too!!! And now I’m worried.”
“Tom Hanks was just on SNL and he looked ROUGH and I noticed his hands now have the same shake as Bill Clinton,” wrote a third.
Former President Bill Clinton, 78, who has had hand tremors for years, previously denied having Parkinson’s disease, saying 2013 that his “little tremor” was just a sign of aging.
The Independent has reached out to Hanks’ rep for comment.
Elsewhere during SNL sketch, the hosts went round to boldly make false claims about themselves, with Hanks chipping in to add that he’s “never had Covid”.
in 2020, Saving Private Ryan the actor and his wife Rita Wilson both tested positive for Covid while in Australia where Hanks filmed Baz Luhrmann Elvis.
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Hanks, who was hospitalized with the virus, said at the time that he had “severe body aches and was very tired” and was exhausted after only 12 minutes of practice.
“I was wiped out,” he continued National defense radio show. “Whoever he was, a doctor or a nurse, he would come to our isolation rooms under pressure. She said, ‘How are you feeling?’ and I said, ‘I just had the strangest thing. I just tried to do basic stretches and floor exercises and I didn’t even get half of it.’
“And she looked at me through her glasses as if she was talking to the stupidest human being. And she said, ‘You have Covid-19’.”