Roseanneisn’t the only beloved show to suffer because of a lead actor.
Roseanne
On Tuesday,ABC canceled the return of its reboot— the no. 1 scripted series of the season with a 6.4 rating in the key demo, according toThe Hollywood Reporter— after Roseanne Barr posted a racist tweet about formerBarack Obamaadvisor Valerie Jarrett on Monday.
The actress compared Jarrett, who is black, to an ape before deleting her tweet.
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Barr tweeted Wednesday morning that she “mistakenly thought [Jarrett] was white.”
“Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” president of ABC Entertainment Channing Dungey announced in a statement Tuesday.
7th Heaven
In October 2014, Collins, who starred as father of five and Reverend Eric Camden, wasinvestigated for child molestationdue to revelations he made to hisestranged wifeFaye Grant.
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Caryn Moss, a mother of two young actors who had parts on the show years ago, said at the time that her children would feel the financial effects of this scandal.According to TMZ, Niki Saletta and her brother Sam Saletta, who were both child actors in non-starring roles on the show, stopped receiving residual paychecks for their appearances now that reruns are no longer airing.
As for the major stars of the show, includingJessica Biel, experts estimated that each likely earned upwards of six figures annually in residuals from the show’s reruns.
Two months after news broke,Collins released a lengthy statementto PEOPLE in which he admitted to inappropriate sexual conduct with three female minors. In vivid detail, Collins explained how there were three victims from 1973 to 1994, and how “I have not had an impulse to act out in any such way” in the last 20 years.
“Forty years ago, I did something terribly wrong that I deeply regret. I have been working to atone for it ever since,” he said.
He also addressed the recording that surfaced in October in which he is heard admitting to the allegations during a therapy session with his then-wife Grant.
“On the recording, I described events that took place 20, 32 and 40 years ago,” Collins told PEOPLE. “The publication of the recording has resulted in assumptions and innuendos about what I did that go far beyond what actually occurred. As difficult as this is, I want people to know the truth.”
He also revealed that he had since met with one of the victims. “I did have an opportunity to do so with one of the women, 15 years later. I apologized and she was extraordinarily gracious.”
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source: people.com
