We get to know some TV characters like household over time, so it is arduous to regulate when a beloved collection ends.
However, it is much more of a shock when a personality up and leaves in a season finale, and even halfway by means of with no prior warning.
Sometimes, a personality’s departure is ready in stone and is a part of a higher plan from the writers and producers, even when it does come as a shock to viewers. But typically, it is as a result of the actor behind the character determined to stop—or they acquired pushed.
Here are 15 stars who unexpectedly left their hit collection and why they made their exits.
Kal Penn, House
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Kal joined the Fox medical drama House in 2007 as a daily forged member taking part in Lawrence Kutner, a brand new member of Dr. Gregory House’s new diagnostics crew.
However, within the season 5 episode “Simple Explanation” in 2009, his character died by suicide, with the explanations behind the demise left unexplained by writers.
Penn had left for a brand new job, however apparently sufficient, it wasn’t to leap ship to a brand new TV collection—he left so abruptly as a result of he had accepted a job within the White House.
The actor joined the Obama Administration as an Associate Director within the Office of Public Engagement, necessitating his speedy departure from House.
Penn really took a break from the White House to movie A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, earlier than later being appointed as a co-chair of Obama’s profitable re-election marketing campaign.
Dan Stevens, Downton Abbey
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Matthew Crawley and Lady Mary Crawley’s relationship was one of the vital liked storylines in Downton Abbey, and followers had been delighted when Lady Mary grew to become pregnant after their wedding ceremony.
But tragedy struck when Matthew, performed by Dan Stevens, was killed in a automotive crash on his method residence from the hospital after seeing his new child son, inflicting uproar amongst followers.
The response was so robust that ITV even launched a press release on his premature demise within the Christmas particular, saying: “The producers decided Matthew and Mary could not simply be estranged or parted.”
Matthew was killed off as a result of Stevens wished to go away to discover new alternatives.
“We were always optioned for three years. And when that came up it was a very difficult decision. But it felt like a good time to take stock, to take a moment. From a personal point of view, I wanted a chance to do other things,” he stated.
Downton author Julian Fellowes defended Matthew’s demise, saying that he “didn’t really have an option”.
He informed the Daily Telegraph: “If he had been prepared to come back for maybe two or three episodes in a series, that would be different. Then we could have had a foreign posting or invented a career that would have made it possible for him to be away.
“Otherwise we’d have needed to make this tremendously profitable love affair between Mary and Matthew sad, which I did not really feel can be plausible. So we did not actually have any possibility.”
Stevens’ departure paid off, as he went on to star in The Guest, Beauty and the Beast, The Rental and Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.
Chevy Chase, Community
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Saturday Night Live legend Chevy Chase was a part of the unique research group on Community since its premiere in 2009, taking part in ageing misogynist and moist-towelette mogul Pierce Hawthorne.
He remained on the present till season 4, when an argument throughout filming of the episode “Advanced Documentary Filming” reportedly led to his departure.
Reportedly indignant on the route his character was taking, Chase allegedly used a racial slur whereas venting his frustrations. While the remark was reportedly a “political comment”, based on director Jay Chandrasekhar, it upset many forged members and Chase walked off the set.
Later, it was confirmed that Chase had left the present, and is lacking from two episodes in season 4.
He does seem within the first episode of season 5 as a visitor star, and within the third episode, Pierce was killed off, off-screen.
Daniel Dae Kim, Hawaii Five-0
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In 2010, Daniel Dae Kim joined the forged of the Hawaii Five-0 reboot as Chin Ho Kelly (performed within the OG collection by Kam Fong), and remained as one of many major forged members for seven seasons.
However, within the season seven finale, Kelly was provided a brand new job, which he accepted, in San Fransisco.
The character’s departure reportedly got here on account of a wage dispute between Kim and CBS. Kim was looking for pay equality with Alex O’Loughlin and Scott Caan, however CBS’s last supply to Kim was 10–15% decrease than what his co-stars made.
In a Facebook submit, Kim confirmed he had left the collection, and alluded to the dispute by writing: “The path to equality is rarely easy. But I hope you can be excited for the future.”
Grace Park, who performed Officer Kono Kalakaua, additionally left Hawaii Five-0 over a wage dispute. The collection ran for an additional three seasons earlier than ending in 2020.
Sophia Bush, Chicago P.D.
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Sophia joined Chicago Fire spin-off Chicago P.D. in its first season as Detective Erin Lindsay, however 4 seasons in, it was introduced the actress was leaving the present.
In the season 4 finale, Erin accepted a job in New York.
A yr on from her exit, Bush revealed that she left the collection on account of a “consistent onslaught barrage of abusive behaviour”.
“I realised that as I was thinking I was being the tough guy, doing the thing, showing up to work, I programmed myself to tolerate the intolerable,” Bush informed Dax Shepard on his podcast Armchair Expert.
“I quit because, what I’ve learned is I’ve been so programmed to be a good girl and to be a work horse and be a tug boat that I have always prioritised tugging the ship for the crew, for the show, for the group, ahead of my own health … My body was, like, falling apart, because I was really, really unhappy.”
Bush stated that she complained to her bosses concerning the robust working situations, with forged and crew getting sick filming in Chicago’s freezing climate, and claimed that she was informed nothing might be performed as a result of she had signed a seven-season contract.
She stated: “I said, ‘OK, you can put me in the position of going quietly of my own accord or you can put me in the position of suing the network to get me out of my deal and I’ll write an op-ed for The New York Times and tell them why.'”
Columbus Short, Scandal
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Columbus Short performed litigator Harrison Wright, who labored with Olivia Pope, within the first three seasons of political collection Scandal.
However, Harrison was killed off within the season three finale, on account of points in Short’s private life.
In 2014, the actor opened up about his departure in an interview with Access Hollywood, saying: “I was struggling with drugs. I had a lot on my plate, and you know, I was using unhealthy ways to kind of self-medicate and deal with a lot of heavy duty stuff in my life.
“I used to be doing cocaine and ingesting so much, and attempting to stability a 16-hour work schedule a day, and a household, and I simply misplaced myself again then.”
Before his exit from Scandal was announced, Short was arrested for allegedly knocking out a man during an altercation at a restaurant, and he was hit with a restraining order from his then-wofe , who alleged that Short threatened her life during a fight at their home.
As part of a no-jail plea agreement, Short pleaded guilty to misdemeanour domestic violence, for which he performed 30 hours of community service, and pleaded no contest to a felony assault charge.
Mischa Barton, The OC
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Teen drama followers had been bereft in 2006 when the final word troubled wealthy woman Marissa Cooper was killed off on The OC to the strains of Jeff Buckley, when she and Ryan had been run off the highway by Volchok, simply as she was about to go be part of her father on a cruise ship.
Marissa’s demise was the catalyst for the present’s demise, and it ended one season on. So it might come as a shock that her exit was really the producers’ concept.
Show creator Josh Schwartz informed the HuffPost in 2013: “It was a hundred percent a creative decision for the show and it was born out of both feeling creatively like it was the direction the show needed to head and also, quite frankly, a function of needing to do something big to shake up the show at the end of that third season to both get the show to come back for a fourth season and, I think, to give the show a real creative jolt in season four and move the show in its own surprising, unexpected direction.”
However, whereas showing on Dancing With The Stars, Mischa urged she was prepared to go away The OC behind.
“I think I just got to the point where I was like, ‘I’m not sure I’m enjoying this anymore’,” she stated. “I just felt like I was in a machine and I couldn’t really get off. So it was time to step back. So I went back to England and it was just a year of real self-exploration.”
Kevin Spacey, House of Cards
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Netflix’s House of Cards was successful from the get-go, receiving rave critiques and 33 Emmy award nominations over its six season run.
The collection centred on formidable congressman Frank Underwood, performed by Kevin Spacey, as he climbed by means of the ranks in Washington, D.C.
Spacey received a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Underwood in 2015, however two years later, actor Anthony Rapp alleged that Spacey made a sexual advance in direction of him when he was 14 years outdated and Spacey was 26.
In a press release on the time, Spacey claims to don’t have any reminiscence of the alleged incident whereas apologising for what he stated “would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behaviour”.
After this, 15 different folks—together with eight individuals who labored on House of Cards—made allegations of sexual misconduct in opposition to Spacey.
At the time, season six of House of Cards was underway, and filming was paused to jot down Spacey out of the present, along with his final look marked in season 5.
After Netflix confirmed they’d don’t have any affiliation with Spacey going ahead, the sixth and last season resumed filming with Robin Wright’s character Claire Underwood on the centre of the present.
Frank was mysteriously killed off off display, as his spouse took over the presidency.
T.R. Knight, Grey’s Anatomy
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Grey’s Anatomy has shed most of its major characters in numerous devastating methods throughout its 17 seasons, and among the many most surprising exits was that of George O’Malley.
George, performed by T.R. Knight, was one of many major forged members up till the tip of season 5, when Knight introduced that he can be leaving the present in 2009.
The character was concerned in a horrific bus accident, and was handled by his pals on the hospital who didn’t know that he was the disfigured John Doe; he was declared braindead following surgical procedure, and his organs had been donated.
Knight blamed a “breakdown in communication” with govt producer Shonda Rhimes for his departure after his screentime dwindled to simply 48 minutes within the first 9 episodes of season 5.
Instead of asking what was happening along with his character, Knight merely selected to go away, telling Entertainment Weekly: ‘My five-year expertise proved to me that I couldn’t belief any reply that was given [about George]. And with respect, I’m going to go away it at that.”
However, Knight did briefly return for an episode last year, when George visited Meredith in a dream.
Isaiah Washington, Grey’s Anatomy
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Another main Grey’s exit got here within the first season, when Isaiah Washington’s character Dr Preston Burke was written out, skipping out on his wedding ceremony to Cristina Yang within the season finale.
His exit adopted behind the scenes drama, when Washington used a homophobic slur in a row with co-star Patrick Dempsey.
Washington issued an apology for his “unfortunate use of words” and denied that it was directed at Knight, who later publicly got here out as homosexual. But additional controversy arose when he allegedly used the slur once more on the Golden Globes.
Months later, ABC introduced that that they had determined to not renew Washington’s contract, and in a press release, the actor stated: “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.”
He later informed Entertainment Weekly: “I’m saddened by the outcome. I did everything that the producers and the network asked me to do. I came back under great duress and stress, and thought I was doing the job I was hired to do.
“I believed that was going to talk for my future at Grey’s, however apparently that wasn’t the identical imaginative and prescient that the community and studio had for me.”
Washington did, however, briefly return to Grey’s seven years on as Sandra Oh prepared to leave as Cristina Yang.
Washington, who campaigned against California’s anti-gay-marriage referendum, Proposition 8, has always denied allegations of homophobia.
Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men
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Love it or hate it, Two and a Half Men was one in all America’s most profitable comedies, and Charlie Sheen was the very best paid actor on tv on the time, making $1.8million an episode for taking part in Charlie Harper.
However, in 2011, all of it got here crumbling down as Sheen was fired from the present on account of his “dangerously self-destructive conduct,” issue at work in forgetting traces and turning up late, and inflammatory feedback to producers.
Warner Bros Television terminated his companies ‘instantly’ following a string of erratic interviews, after Sheen referred to as producer Chuck Lorre a “clown” and a “stupid, stupid little man”.
During his TV and radio interviews, Sheen made his infamous feedback about him “winning” and having “tiger blood”.
Charlie Harper was killed off off-screen in a subway accident and his absence was crammed by Ashton Kutcher, who performed a millionaire who struck up a friendship with Charlie’s brother Alan (Jon Cryer).
Sheen’s exit was joked about within the collection finale, when a faux Sheen was crushed by a falling piano, with Lorre saying “winning” earlier than he was additionally crushed by a piano.
Meghan Markle, Suits
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Actress Meghan Markle joined the forged of Suits from the start as Rachel Zane, a senior paralegal who struck up a romance with Mike Ross.
She remained on the present for seven seasons… and, nicely, everyone knows what occurred subsequent.
In 2017, Meghan’s engagement to at least one Prince Harry was introduced, and with that, it was confirmed that she would, clearly, be leaving Suits.
Speaking to Radio 4’s Today, Suits creator Aaron Korsh stated: “I sort of had a decision to make because I didn’t want to intrude and ask her, ‘Hey, what’s going on? What are you going to do?’ So . . . collectively the writers, we decided to take a gamble that these two people are in love and it’s going to work out.
“What we determined to do was because the season progresses say, ‘Look, I’d somewhat have good issues occur to Meghan in her life’ — which might doubtless imply her leaving the present. So let’s plan on that and it is a lot simpler to undo that, if it got here to it, than to simply plan on her staying endlessly after which discovering out she’s going to go. And the one method to write a personality out like that will be in the event that they acquired hit by a bus or one thing.”
As the writers had time to work on Rachel’s exit, the season seven finale saw her and Mike getting married, with Patrick J Adams also leaving the show as their characters rode off into the sunset.
Topher Grace, That ’70s Show
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Eric Forman was the central character of That ’70s Show, however bizarrely, he was written out of the eighth and last season, solely stopping in for the final episode to say goodbye.
Eric’s absence, defined because the character instructing for a yr in Africa, was right down to actor Topher Grace eager to pursue movie roles.
Speaking about his time on the present, Grace informed IndieWire that his TV function led to freedom in selecting different alternatives: “It occurred to me that I was really lucky to have been on a sitcom for a lot of years. I realised… that I didn’t really need a lot more money… I didn’t care [about exposure or a big paycheck].
“It’s what I wished to do with my life… I simply need to work with folks the place I see their movie and go: ‘I’ll do no matter your subsequent movie is.’ I haven’t got to take a seat there and resolve if it’ll be good or not.”
Taylor Momsen, Gossip Girl
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Post-How the Grinch Stole Christmas and pre-The Pretty Reckless, Taylor Momsen was a collection common on Gossip Girl, taking part in Jenny Humphrey.
However, the present coincided with Momsen’s off-screen transformation right into a goth rocker and the actress’s behaviour reportedly grew to become more and more risky, leading to an notorious conflict with Project Runway‘s Tim Gunn, who starred as himself in a cameo function on Gossip Girl.
Calling Momsen “sad” and “pathetic”, Gunn informed E!: “She couldn’t remember her lines, and she didn’t even have that many. I thought to myself ‘why are we all being held hostage by this brat?'”
Shortly after this incident, it was introduced that Momsen can be happening “indefinite hiatus” from the present after season 4 – having solely appeared in a handful episodes that season – and her character’s absence was defined by having her transfer to London to attend vogue college.
Momsen did return for the Gossip Girl finale, however in 2011, she informed Elle that she had stop appearing for good.
“I quit acting, actually,” she stated. “I quit Gossip Girl and now tour and am in a band and that’s pretty much all I want to do. Hopefully I’ll be able to only do that for the rest of my life.”
Shannon Doherty, Beverly Hills 90210
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Before there was The OC and Gossip Girl, there was Beverly Hills 90210, and taking part in Brenda Walsh made Shannen Doherty a family identify.
While her star was on the rise, so was her “bad girl” status, and 4 seasons in—when the present was nonetheless on the peak of its success—Doherty was written out of the present, with Brenda heading to London to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and by no means returning to Beverly Hills.
In 2015, Doherty’s co-star Tori Spelling admitted that she was the one who requested her dad—the present’s producer Aaron Spelling—to fireside Doherty.
She stated on the Lifetime particular Celebrity Lie Detector: “I felt like I was a part of something, a movement, that cost someone their livelihood.”
This got here after Doherty allegedly acquired right into a “fistfight” with forged member Jennie Garth; Garth later stated that they did need to be pulled aside however they did not hurt each other.
Executive producer Charles Rosin additionally claimed that Doherty had a “callous” angle concerning the present and informed Entertainment Weekly that she was “habitually” late.
Addressing her behaviour with Parade, Doherty stated: “I have a rep. Did I earn it? Yeah, I did. But, after a while you sort of try to shed that rep because you’re kind of a different person. You’ve evolved and all of the bad things you’ve done in your life have brought you to a much better place.”
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