Live from New York! It’s “Saturday Night” to the rescue!
A Manhattan woman celebrated her 36th birthday last weekend by attending a “Saturday Night Live” rehearsal — and noticed later at the chic eatery Nobu 57 that a 4-carat diamond was missing from her engagement ring.
Restaurant staff and patrons searched unsuccessfully.
“I was a mess,” said Bree Candee, an event planner.
But, amazingly, Candee’s despair turned to utter joy when husband Brian phoned “SNL” staging director Tom Popple — whom they had met before the rehearsal. Popple calmly told him, “Brian, I’m holding it in my hand as we speak.”
Brian, 35, who learned that Popple found the rock under his wife’s seat, said yesterday, “It’s like winning the lottery. You can’t believe it.”
Bree said she was “still shaking” after Brian went to 30 Rockefeller Plaza to retrieve the diamond and then returned to put it in her hand — just as he did three years ago when he proposed.
“It’s one of my favorite things,” she said. “I wake up in cold sweats dreaming that I’m going to lose my ring — and the funny thing is, I did.”