Role Model Reveals the Surprising Celebrity Who Inspired His Viral ‘Sally’ Segment on Tour

The origins of Role Model’s “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out” is mystery no more.

While speaking in conversation with James Austin Johnson of Saturday Night Live at Rolling Stone’s Musicians on Musicians event, the singer, whose real name is Tucker Pillsbury, revealed where he got the idea for his social media famous “Sally” segment.

While on tour, Role Model has created an entire universe on social media around one moment that takes place during every show on his tour.

When he plays his hit song, “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out” off off the deluxe version of his latest album, “Kansas Anymore,” Role Model has taken to bringing out celebrities to play the elusive and mysterious “Sally” that he references throughout the song.

When asked by James who books the “Sallys,” Role Model said simply: “Me,” before clarifying how the fan hit moment came to be.

After he put out the deluxe version of “Kansas Anymore,” the “Look At That Woman” singer explained that the tour kicked off in Phoenix, where he did he first show “normal.”

However, when the band went to Dallas, it was around the time that a joke began circling online that influencer and host of podcast Therapuss Jake Shane was the inspiration for the song.

“He happened to be in Dallas and I was like this would be funny to like play into that and he came up,” he said. “Originally I was going to have him up for a different song, something else and then we did that and people loved that, so we started bringing up fans.”

Role Model has appeared twice on Shane’s podcast Therapuss, which in part prompted fan speculation about the influencer’s role in shaping the song.

The “Sally” moment has spurred a viral online phenomenon. Since then, Role Model has had everyone from Shane to Kate Hudson to Bowen Yang to Natalie Portman as his “Sally.”

Moments like these have become increasingly common on celebrity tours over the past year as well. On Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet tour, the pop star frequently features fans and celebrities alike in a segment where she jokingly arrests them for being too sexy.

And charli xcx has a fan cam during her viral “Apple” song where fans are featured performing a now famous TikTok dance as she performs.

Role Model has had a standout year as his Kansas Anymore tour took the country (and the internet) by storm. Speaking with PEOPLE late last year, the singer said of the album:

“[Music] was brand new [to me] when I first put out a song, and I think people got to watch me very slowly figure it out,” he says. “I think Kansas Anymore was the turning point, where I just figured all my s— out. It was finally an album that I’m proud of and that I genuinely listen to all the time.”