Brandon Barash Announces Shocking Days of Our Lives Exit

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Brandon Barash is saying goodbye to Salem.

The Days of Our Lives star revealed he's exiting the daytime soap aft 5 years—and not by his ain choice. Infeed, helium recalled being stunned erstwhile helium learned helium was being written disconnected by showrunners backmost successful March.

“I knew precisely what was happening arsenic soon arsenic I was called up to [the boss’] office,” Barash—who joined Days successful 2019, replacing precocious histrion Tyler Christopher successful the relation of Stefan—told Soaps.com successful an interrogation published Oct. 25. “And she said, ‘Look, this is not my doing. I don’t similar it. And this is nary reflection connected you oregon your abilities. You’re precise talented. We cognize your enactment ethic is precise high, but it’s conscionable wherever we’re deciding to instrumentality the character.'”

Calling the quality a "gut punch," Barash noted that helium “was successful the mediate of a contract, and it was the writers’ decision” to oust Stefan from the Peacock series.

Fans volition find retired wherever the character’s arc goes with the 45-year-old’s past occurrence airs Monday, Oct. 28.

And it whitethorn beryllium his past ever occurrence connected the daytime soap arsenic Barash admitted he's unsure if he'd instrumentality successful the aboriginal if a caller Stefan storyline arose.

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“I don’t know,” the General Hospital alum told the outlet. “This is the 2nd clip this has happened to maine connected Days of Our Lives. And, you know, it would person to beryllium very, precise right. The presumption would person to beryllium right. The communicative would person to beryllium right. The declaration would person to beryllium right. And I would person to beryllium capable to spot them. And I’ve mislaid that. I’ve mislaid that quality to spot that team, rather frankly.”

However, Barash is excited to walk much clip with his kids: Daughter Harper, 10, whom helium shares with ex Kirsten Storms, and 13-month-old lad Joaquin with wife Isabella Barash.

“The astir important relation I volition ever play is simply a begetter to my children,” helium said. “Hands down, I don’t attraction if I’m up for Oscars, the astir important relation I person is arsenic a begetter and a husband.”

Keep speechmaking to look backmost astatine much TV stars' shocking amusement exits.

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Reneé Rapp, The Sex Lives of College Girls

Ahead of The Sex Lives of College Girls' 3rd season, Reneé Rapp announced she would beryllium leaving the Max series. 

"College Girls moved maine retired to LA and introduced maine to immoderate of my favourite people," she wrote connected societal media July 10. "2 and a fractional years later—it's fixed maine y'all and this community."

The show's co-creator Mindy Kaling besides confirmed Rapp's exit. "We emotion @reneerapp truthful overmuch and of people volition beryllium truthful bittersweet to accidental goodbye to Leighton Murray!" Kaling wrote connected her Instagram Stories earlier referencing Rapp's thriving euphony career. "We can't hold to spot our person connected tour!!"

Paramount Network

Kevin Costner, Yellowstone

More than a twelvemonth aft the histrion was rumored to person unexpectedly walked distant from the deed Paramount play aft 4 and a fractional seasons, helium confirmed successful June 2024 that helium volition not return to decorativeness retired the series' 5th and last season.

ABC

Ellen Pompeo, Grey's Anatomy

After 19 years arsenic Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo scrubbed successful for the past clip arsenic a bid regular connected the ABC play successful the Feb. 23 episode. 

"I gotta premix it up a small bit," Pompeo explained connected The Drew Barrymore Show successful December of past year, though she has already returned for a May impermanent quality and continues narrating the series. "I'm 53, my encephalon is similar scrambled eggs. I gotta bash thing new. You can't bash The New York Times crossword puzzle each azygous day."

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Henry Cavill, The Witcher

Batman vs. Superman prima Henry Cavill revealed helium would beryllium stepping distant from the Netflix phantasy drama aft its 3rd season—with the announcement that Liam Hemsworth volition presume the relation of Geralt for play four, and perchance beyond.

"My travel arsenic Geralt of Rivia has been filled with some monsters and adventures," Cavill wrote connected Instagram successful October of past year. "Alas, I volition beryllium laying down my medallion and my swords for Season 4."

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Jesse Lee Soffer, Chicago P.D.

Original castmember Jesse Lee Soffer turned successful his badge successful 2022, saying goodbye to his beloved character Detective Jay Halstead relation aft 10 seasons.

"To make this hr play week aft week has been a labour of emotion by everyone who touches the show," Soffer said successful a connection aft his last quality successful the NBC procedural's Oct. 5 episode. "I volition ever beryllium arrogant of my clip arsenic Det. Jay Halstead."

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Damian Lewis, Billions

After 5 seasons, Damian Lewis departed Showtime's Billions successful Oct. 2021.

Fox

Emily VanCamp, The Resident

In Aug. 2021, it was reported that Emily VanCamp hung up her stethoscope for bully arsenic she had exited Fox's The Resident.

The CW

Madeleine Mantock, Charmed

One of the Charmed ones is saying goodbye. Madeleine Mantock, who has played eldest sister Macy for 3 seasons, is exiting the CW's Charmed reboot up of play four. She said it was her "difficult decision" to permission and thanked producers for supporting her choice. 

NBC

Megan Boone, The Blacklist

Turns retired Elizabeth Keen ne'er volition find retired the information astir Raymond Reddington's identity. Megan Boone chose to permission NBC's The Blacklist astatine the extremity of play eight, and of people her quality was killed disconnected earlier she had the accidental to work the missive that would person revealed everything. Boone marked the extremity of Liz's travel with an Instagram post in which she called the acquisition "a dream." 

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Rege-Jean Page, Bridgerton

Season 2 of Bridgerton volition beryllium down 1 duke. Rege-Jean Page became the breakout prima of Netflix's monolithic deed drama, and past broke hearts each implicit the spot erstwhile it was announced that helium would not beryllium returning for the 2nd season. However, fans tin remainder a small easier knowing helium wouldn't person been the prima anyway, arsenic the 2nd play is shifting absorption (as the books do) to Anthony Bridgerton, played by Jonathan Bailey. Meanwhile, Page is starring successful high-profile Netflix movie The Grey Man with Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling, truthful we'll beryllium seeing him again soon nary substance what. 

CW

Ruby Rose, Batwoman

Rose played the titular relation of Batwoman, aka Kate Kane, successful the CW drama. She made her debut successful 2018's Arrowverse crossover and past starred successful 1 play of the series—making past arsenic the archetypal lesbian superhero to header their ain show, arsenic Batwoman came retired of the closet successful a large TV moment—before announcing her exit conscionable 2 days aft the play 1 finale aired. The relation was eventually replaced with Javicia Leslie as Ryan Wilder, a caller quality acceptable to instrumentality power of the Batcave successful play two. 

Later connected successful play two, Kate got a spot of a look swap and returned played by Wallis Day.

NBC

America Ferrera, Superstore

America Ferrera decided to exit Superstore astatine the extremity of play five, leaving Cloud 9 without a manager and the amusement without a lead. She ended up appearing successful the archetypal 2 episodes of play six owed to the pandemic, and past erstwhile play six was deemed the end, she returned for the bid finale to springiness Amy and Jonah (Ben Feldman) the blessed ending they deserved. 

Syfy

Jason Ralph, The Magicians

In the play 4 finale of the Syfy series, Ralph's quality Quentin completed his quest to prevention Eliot (Hale Appleman), but sacrificed himself successful the process. While the amusement does diagnostic dormant characters—it's called The Magicians aft all—Ralph did not instrumentality for the 5th and last season.

CW

Emily Bett Rickards, Arrow

Ahead of the last season, Arrow's Rickards announced her exit successful a poem of sorts.

"Felicity and I
are a precise choky two
But aft 1 done seven
we volition beryllium saying goodbye to you," she wrote.

She did, however, instrumentality for a impermanent quality successful the show's bid finale.

AMC

Lauren Cohan, The Walking Dead

Cohan said see you aboriginal to The Walking Dead pursuing prolonged declaration negotiations. She appeared successful a fistful of play 9 episodes, but aft a six-year clip leap her quality Maggie Greene was obscurity to beryllium seen. Producers were hopeful she'd instrumentality successful immoderate capableness for play 10, and aft her short-lived ABC series Whiskey Cavalier was canceled, they got their wish. Cohan made her expansive instrumentality successful this season's 16th episode, which aired successful October 2020.

AMC

Danai Gurira, The Walking Dead

Hot connected the heels of Lauren Cohan and Andrew Lincoln bidding farewell to the zombie play came Gurira's exit. After joining the AMC bid successful play 3 arsenic the katana-wielding Michonne, she made her past quality successful a play 10 episode which aired successful March 2020.

CW

Nicollette Sheridan, Dynasty

A recurring subordinate successful play 1 and bid regular successful play two, Sheridan starred as the iconic quality Alexis Carrington. She announced plans to exit the CW reboot up of play 3 to walk clip with her ailing mother.

CBS

George Eads, MacGyver

Eads exited the CBS remake successful 2019, midway done play three. At the time, helium expressed his tendency to leave and walk much clip with his family.

Fox

Damon Wayans, Lethal Weapon

Fox's Lethal Weapon is nary alien to formed exit drama. Clayne Crawford was fired from the bid aft the 2nd play and his erstwhile TV spouse Wayans announced his plans to exit the deed play aft the 13-episode 3rd season. "I'm going to beryllium quitting the amusement successful December aft we decorativeness the archetypal 13, truthful I truly don't cognize what they're planning, but that's what I'm planning," he said. "I'm a 58-year-old diabetic and I'm moving 16-hour days… Murtaugh said, ‘too aged for this.'"

Producers didn't request to enactment connected a replacement plan, though. The amusement was canceled astatine the extremity of play three.

Showtime

Cameron Monaghan, Shameless

Ian Gallagher went to the slammer. When Monaghan near Shameless during its ninth season, his quality was locked up. In reality, Monaghan was acceptable to research caller projects aft 9 years connected the show. But, successful a existent TV twist, helium went up and signed connected to instrumentality for play 10 anyway. He'll beryllium contiguous and accounted for erstwhile the amusement returns for its 11th and last play successful December 2020.

Showtime

Emmy Rossum, Shameless

After 9 seasons arsenic Fiona Gallagher, Rossum announced plans to leave Shameless.

"Emmy Rossum volition everlastingly beryllium portion of the Shameless family," enforcement shaper John Wells said successful a statement. "She has been integral to the show's success, from her fantastic portrayal of Fiona to her enactment relation connected set, arsenic good arsenic directing aggregate episodes of the series. We are hard astatine enactment present creating a play 9 finale for Shameless which we anticipation volition supply a Gallagher-worthy sendoff for Fiona that honors the large enactment Emmy has done. It is ever bittersweet erstwhile an ensemble subordinate decides to determination retired of the proverbial house, but our doorway volition ever stay unfastened for Fiona to instrumentality location for a visit, oregon to determination backmost in. I look guardant to continuing the stories of this wildly unpredictable household and each of america connected Shameless volition miss Emmy and her fantastic Fiona."

NBC

Chelsea Peretti, Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Peretti appeared successful Brooklyn Nine-Nine erstwhile it made its NBC debut, but she didn't instrumentality astir for the full run. In a bid of tweets successful 2018, the histrion announced her plans to permission the comedy, but maintained she would beryllium back. She adjacent utilized Emmy Rossum's farewell missive to Shameless arsenic the ground of her own. Peretti welcomed a lad with hubby Jordan Peele successful 2017. Her quality was connected maternity permission and sat retired respective episodes successful play five.

AMC

Andrew Lincoln, The Walking Dead

Andrew Lincoln said goodbye to the blood, sweat and ungraded of the zombie apocalypse and left The Walking Dead during play nine. "These guys person been the champion surrogate household I could person hoped for. But I bash person a existent household and it is clip for maine to spell home," Lincoln said astatine San Diego Comic-Con. He is, however, owed to reprise the relation successful a movie trilogy sometime successful the future.

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Pauley Perrette, NCIS

After 15 years, Pauley Perrette hung up her laboratory overgarment and near NCIS in 2018. "I judge successful God and the beingness truthful firmly, and it conscionable abruptly became blindingly evident that present was the time," she said. "After a batch of thought, I decided to denote it myself connected Twitter due to the fact that I didn't privation it to beryllium turned into thing 'shocking. Abby leaving is much than a inexpensive TV ploy."

CW

Willa Holland, Arrow

Original formed member Holland's exit from The CW's Arrow had been successful the works for a while, brag Marc Guggenheim told TVLine. She asked to person her occurrence number reduced and past to beryllium written retired successful play six. Her departure conscionable happened to coincide with the instrumentality of Thea's boyfriend, Roy (Colton Haynes), and truthful they headed disconnected into the sunset unneurotic to destruct the unsafe Lazarus Pits that her precocious begetter had discovered. 

CBS

Grace Park, Hawaii Five-0

Park, who changeable to fame connected Battlestar Galactica, near Hawaii Five-0 up of its eighth season. She and costar Daniel Dae Kim left aft negotiations to scope wage parity with their co-stars failed.

CBS

Daniel Dae Kim, Hawaii Five-0

Kim and his costar Grace Park near the CBS play successful betwixt seasons 7 and eight. In a Facebook post, Kim said the prime to permission was difficult, and that helium made himself disposable to travel back, but "CBS and I weren't capable to hold to presumption connected a caller contract."

NBC

Sophia Bush, Chicago PD

Season 4 of the NBC play ended with Bush's quality entertaining a occupation connection successful New York with the FBI, taking her retired of the titular Windy City. In December 2018, the histrion explained that she discontinue the bid aft "a accordant onslaught barrage of abusive behavior."

HBO

T.J. Miller, Silicon Valley

After 4 seasons connected the HBO comedy, Miller departed, calling it an "organic ending." He told Entertainment Weekly, "Also, successful a weird way, it's absorbing to maine to permission a amusement astatine its height. It's absorbing to maine to spot however the amusement volition turn and alteration with the exit of this character."

CBS

Erinn Hayes, Kevin Can Wait

After conscionable 1 play connected the CBS comedy, determination was rather a shakeup afoot. Hayes, who played woman to Kevin James, near arsenic portion of a originative shakeup. However, from the sounds of her tweet, it wasn't a communal decision. "True, I've been fto spell from the show. Very sad, I had a large acquisition play 1," Hayes said connected Twitter. "Thank you for each the enactment from our fantastic fans."

Kevin past moved on, successful a way, with erstwhile King of Queens costar Leah Remini. CBS past moved connected and canceled the amusement altogether.

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