STATEN ISLAND, NY – Rumors of Colin Jost leaving “Saturday Night Live” can officially be put to rest.

The Grymes Hill native is returning for Season 51 this fall, according to wife Scarlett Johansson , who told “Entertainment Weekly” at the Toronto International Film Festival: “He’s going back to work.”

Speculation had been swirling all summer about the fate of Jost and his co-anchor Michael Che. In February, Che joked during a stand-up set that he was “done” with the show , and given the major shakeups already underway at SNL , fans wondered if Jost might call it quits, too.

Instead, Jost will return for his 12th season in front of the camera — his 20th overall at “SNL,” having first joined the show as a writer in 2005. He became co-anchor of “Weekend Update” in 2014, initially a

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