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'You think God didn't make gay men?' Comedian Leslie Jones on religion, grief and getting famous at 47

by Zoe Williams

She was Saturday Night Live's oldest hire, then faced a torrent of abuse after her role in the Ghostbusters reboot. She talks about the deaths of her mum, dad and brother " and why she's given up dating men It's early evening in a photography studio in west London, and the American comedian Leslie Jones is capering about, dressed in a full-length gold lamé ballgown and smoking. "Make me look skinny," she says to the…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 4:18am on July 23, 2025