" In 2021,The Mandalorianactor Gina Carano place a photograph to societal media comparing being a Republican to being a Jew during the Holocaust . Fans then searched for more debatable posts from her past tense and found some in which she condemned wearing face masks and claimed voter dupery in 2020 . "
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1.Columbus Short played Harrison Wright in the first three seasons ofScandal.He exited the show in 2014 amiddomestic abuse claimsfrom his now-former wife.
In 2014, Short was hit with a restraining order from his wife after sheclaimedhe threatened her life during a fight at their home. He was also charged with misdemeanor spousal battery. He later revealed that he was doing cocaine and drinking alcohol in excess during this time in his life.
2.In the sixth season ofEmpire,Jussie Smollettwas written out of the show after an alleged attack on him, which was first investigated as a possible hate crime before beingdismissedas a hoax.
In January 2019, Smollettreportedto police that he’d been attacked by two masked men in Chicago in a possible racist and anti-gay hate crime.
Smollett claimed he was attacked by two men who threw a chemical at him, put a rope around his neck, called him anti-gay slurs, and referenced President Donald Trump’s “MAGA” slogan. After a police investigation, Smollett wasaccusedof paying two acquaintances to stage this attack.
Amid these legal troubles, Smollett’s character waswritten outof the show in the first episode of the last season.
3.After three seasons playing Dr. Preston Burke onGrey’s Anatomy,Isaiah Washingtonwas fired in 2007 afterusing an anti-gay sluraimed at T.R. Knight before he’d publicly come out.
In the bookHow to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey’s Anatomyby Lynette Rice,Grey’swriter Mark Wildingrecalledthat Patrick Dempsey had shown up late to set, and Washington felt disrespected because he and the crew had been waiting.
FellowGrey’s Anatomywriter Harry Werksman said that Washington went after Dempsey, pushed him up against the wall, and said, ‘You can’t talk to me the way you talk to that little f—– T.R.'"
Washington’s last appearance onGrey’sas a series regular was in the Season 3 finale. He later returned for one episode in Season 10.
4.In 2018, theRoseannereboot wascanceledby ABC a few hours afterRoseanne Barr, the show’s star and co-creator, posted a racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett, an African American woman who was a senior adviser to Barack Obama throughout his presidency.
She later apologized, but ABC quickly announced the cancellation of the reboot.
In announcing the show’s cancellation, ABC entertainment president Channing Dungey released astatementsaying that “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values.”
5.From 2003 to 2011, Charlie Sheen portrayed Charlie Harper inTwo and a Half Men. He wasfiredafter making a series of negative statements about Chuck Lorre, the show’s creator.
6.In 2021,The Mandalorianactor Gina Carano was let go from the show after her problematicpostson social media.
In 2021, Caranoposteda photo to social media comparing being a Republican to being a Jew during the Holocaust. Fans then searched for more problematic posts from her past and found some in which she condemned wearing face masks and claimed voter fraud in the 2020 election.
She was thenaskednot to return toThe Mandalorian, and the plans for her character to have her own show were discarded.
A representative for Lucasfilmsaidin a statement, “Her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”
7.In 2020, Lori Loughlin wasconvictedof conspiracy to commit fraud and served two months in jail for her role in the2019 admissions scandal.
The admissions scandal was where wealthy parentspaidbribes to get their children accepted into prestigious universities. After Loughlin was accused, she did not return toFuller House.
8.In 2021, Armie Hammer wasfiredfrom just about every one of his upcoming films and shows that he was meant to star in once it became public that he had sexual assault allegations against him and had allegedly sent messages in which he referred to himself as a cannibal. The projects he lost includeBillion Dollar Spy,Shotgun Wedding, and the TV seriesThe Offer.
He left Hollywood and wasn’t seen in public until he wasdiscoveredin 2022 seemingly selling timeshares in the Cayman Islands.
9.And finally, Hartley Sawyer wasfiredfromThe Flashin 2020 after his old racist, misogynistic, and anti-LGBTQ tweets became public on social media.
One tweetread, per the Hollywood Reporter, “The only thing keeping me from doing mildly racist tweets is the knowledge that Al Sharpton would never stop complaining about me.”
After these posts resurfaced,The Flashproducersannouncedhe would not appear in the seventh season of the CW show.
