Eli Manning is no Lindsay Lohan.
The Giants quarterback who hosted “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend pulled better-than-average ratings, the show reported yesterday.
But they weren’t good enough to beat the “SNL” hosted by Lohan last March, which is the chart-topper so far this year.
Full ratings won’t be out for several weeks, but a preliminary reading of the top 25 cities in the US shows Manning’s “SNL” was 4 percent higher than the season average.
But Lohan’s show eight weeks ago was about 10 percent higher than the Super Bowl star’s.
Meanwhile, Rihanna, Manning’s musical guest, reportedly caused a stir when she failed to show up for her final rehearsal.
The no-show “did not sit well with the show’s producers, including head man Lorne Michaels,” according to the gossip Web site TMZ.
Rihanna said she was feeling sick and did not want to do the dress rehearsal, which is performed live before a full studio audience a few hours before the real show.
When the singer showed up later, apparently looking fine, “the staff was shocked and felt she didn’t appear sick enough to have missed the dress rehearsal,” TMZ said.