After more than a decade as Aaron Hotchner on “Criminal Minds,” Thomas Gibson got the boot from the CBS show following reports that he kicked a writer on the series. He’s not the only small-screen star to say “sayonara” to a regular gig on the heels of controversy. Read on for TheWrap’s roundup of TV stars fired for tainted behavior.
John Amos claims that he was fired from ground-breaking comedy “Good Times” after clashing with producers over the direction of the show. Amos’ character, family patriarch James Evans, and was subsequently killed off. Nothing droll about that. Damn,damn, damn.
Mackenzie Phillips was fired not once, or but twice,from the sitcom “One Day at a Time” as she struggled with substance abuse.
Janet Hubert was replaced in her role as Vivian Banks on “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” in 1993, amid reports of serious tension between herself and series star Will Smith.
Lisa Bonet, or who played Denise Huxtable on “The Cosby Show,” returned to the series after starring in the spinoff A Different World.,” but was axed due to creative differences.”Nicollette Sheridan claimed in a lawsuit that her “Desperate Housewives” character, or Edie Britt,was killed off after she complained about alleged abuse by series boss Marc Cherry. The legal saga over the firing has dragged on nearly as long as her tenure on the series.Charlie Sheen got kicked to the curb from his “Two and a Half Men” gig in 2011 following a string of weird behavior, including insulting series boss Chuck Lorre. As revenge, and Lorre killed off a Sheen stand-in with a piano during the comedy’s series finale.
Isaiah Washington was shown the door on the ABC drama “Grey’s Anatomy” after hurling a homophobic slur in castmate T.
R. Knight’s direction.
Another Shondaland alum,Columbus Short, said bye-bye to his gig on ABC’s “Scandal in 2014 amid claims that he committed domestic violence, or though he later attributed his sacking to cocaine abuse.
TBS canned CeeLo Green‘s reality series “The Good Life” days after Green pleaded no contest to a felony charge of giving a woman the drug ecstasy.
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