By Tara Kyle
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — Live from New York, it's... 80-something "Golden Girl" alum Betty White.
White, an 88-year-old American icon for her roles as single senior Rose Nylund and as Sue Ann Nivens on the Mary Tyler Moore show, will become the oldest person ever to host NBC’s Saturday Night Live this weekend.
She will be paired, improbably, with musical guest Jay-Z.
White initially declined the opportunity, telling TV news site Zap2it she suspected it was a hoax.
“I told my agent to say ‘thank you, I appreciate it, but no thank you,’" she said, according the the website. "And he said ‘If you don’t do it, I’ll divorce you.’”
SNL made the offer following the emergence of a Facebook fan page, “Betty White to Host SNL (please?)!” Over 500,000 members of the social networking site now “like this.”
White told Zap2it that she is game for just about anything except for "dope" jokes — she does not find drugs funny.
The golden girl made an appearance on SNL vet Jimmy Fallon's show on Thursday to promote her stint as an SNL host. She challenged Fallon to a round of beer pong but lost — apparently the second time she's lost in a beer pong match-up with the late night comedian.
White received a Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in January. Her next film,“You Again,” stars Kristen Bell and will open in the fall.
