diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e91f9b21e6e..216a2744844 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ Ansible Changes By Release
 * performance improvment for inventory, had slown down considerably from 2.3
 * Fix cpu facts on sparc64 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/30261)
 * Fix ansible_distribution fact for Arch linux (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/30600)
+* remove print statements from play_context/become
 
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diff --git a/lib/ansible/playbook/play_context.py b/lib/ansible/playbook/play_context.py
index 6d48ed2539e..5393cf58393 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/playbook/play_context.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/playbook/play_context.py
@@ -545,8 +545,6 @@ class PlayContext(Base):
             # set flags to use for the privilege escalation method, with various overrides
             flags = self.become_flags or getattr(self, '%s_flags' % self.become_method, '')
 
-            print(exe)
-            print(flags)
             if self.become_method == 'sudo':
                 # If we have a password, we run sudo with a randomly-generated
                 # prompt set using -p. Otherwise we run it with default -n, which makes