However, she left the job on July 18, 2016, when she booked an acting job. Sweeney was hired by Universal Studios Hollywood on June 12, 2016, and attended an orientation shift, followed by a training shift, THR found. She was employed as a tour guide at Universal Studios - though her tenure was “short-lived.” But seeing Sydney Sweeney dance around this and never give a straight answer is kinda crazy considering she’s the one that volunteered that information, that verifiably false information.”īut The Hollywood Reporter ended up doing that deep-dive into Sweeney’s employment history last month and found that she was telling the truth. “I don’t know why she’s choosing to fib about this. “No hate to her,” Hancock said, according to THR. Hancock also argued that Sweeney began to appear “cagey or uncomfortable” in interviews on the matter, as if she wanted to quickly change the subject to avoid anyone digging deep into her employment history, THR said. Hancock said the screening process involves “multiple rounds of auditions just to join a class to study the information to possibly get the job.” He said, “It’s not just a summer job that any teenager can get.” “It’s not true, she’s lying,” declared TikTok user Taylor Hancock, who posted a clip that details his “many years” of leading tours on the classic (Universal) tour and as a VIP guide on the backlot, THR reported. We filed for bankruptcy, and they lost their house back home on the lake,” she told Women’s Health, according to THR. Sweeney explained that she had to help support her family because of her parents’ financial struggles, so she babysat, cleaned restaurant bathrooms and worked as a tour guide at the famed L.A. During multiple interviews, Sweeney offered up a rags-to-riches story about moving to Los Angeles with her family as a teenager, so she could try to make it as an actor, as entertainment site Perez Hilton and The Hollywood Reporter recounted. Sweeney’s Universal Studios mini-scandal erupted earlier this year. “If I didn’t work there, how would I know all of Universal’s characters like Shrok, the Munions and Harry Porter,” she joked, riffing on the names of Shrek, the Minions and Harry Potter. “Like I once said I worked at Universal Studios, and someone online accused me of lying about that,” Sweeney said while introducing herself as “SNL’s” latest host. The other pervasive internet rumor over the past couple months has been that the two-time Emmy nominee lied about landing a prestigious job as a tour guide at Universal Studios as a teenager. During her monologue for “Saturday Night Live,” Sydney Sweeney humorously knocked down several pervasive internet rumors about her, including that she had a supposed “affair” with her “Anyone But You” co-star Glen Powell while engaged to someone else, or that her success and beauty is due to nutrition advice she received from a self-proclaimed dietician.