How Call Me Kat Is Paying Tribute to Leslie Jordan

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After Leslie Jordan's decease connected Oct. 24, Fox's Call Me Kat is honoring the histrion with a peculiar tribute successful the Oct. 27 episode. Find retired what they person planned here.

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Call Me Kat is mourning the nonaccomplishment of Leslie Jordan

The sitcom volition grant the precocious actor with a rubric paper astatine the commencement of the Oct. 27 episode, according to Variety. In the series, Jordan plays Phil, the caput baker astatine the cafe owned by Kat (Mayim Bialik). 

The outlet reported that Jordan had completed 8 episodes of Call Me Kat's 3rd play and was scheduled to movie the ninth occurrence this week.

Jordan is besides scheduled to look successful upcoming episodes of The Masked Singer, wherever helium besides appeared arsenic a impermanent panelist connected 2 episodes successful 2021, and Lego Masters, which were some filmed earlier his death. There is nary connection connected however either of those shows program to wage tribute to Jordan.

On Oct. 24, co-star Mayim honored Jordan with a tribute connected Instagram. 

"There aren't words to convey the nonaccomplishment we are experiencing arsenic a Call Me Kat family," she wrote. "Leslie Jordan was larger than life. He was a Southern gentleman; tender, wise, naughty and hilarious. We got to cognize and emotion him astatine the tallness of his happiness and joyousness and it is inconceivable to ideate a satellite without our Leslie."

Mayim's enactment concluded, "We volition beryllium taking clip to grieve and to observe the galore gifts Leslie gave to america and to the full satellite and we admit privateness astatine this time." 

Cheyenne Jackson, who plays Kat's person Max connected the series, besides paid tribute connected Instagram Oct. 24.

"He was my mentor, my sober member and my unofficial drama coach," Jackson wrote successful part. "He hated that we couldn't archer naughty jokes connected acceptable anymore truthful we decided that we'd beryllium each other's bluish worldly harmless space. And nary substance however filthy a gag would beryllium that I'd archer him, he'd giggle and past archer maine 1 10 times dirtier. He was adjacent parts silly and serious, wide and subtle, and ever ALWAYS kind."

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Jordan, besides known for his roles connected Will & Grace and American Horror Story, died successful a car mishap connected Oct. 24 astatine the property of 67. His authoritative origin of decease has yet to beryllium announced.

Watch Call Me Kat grant Leslie Jordan erstwhile it airs Oct. 27 astatine 9:30 p.m. ET connected Fox.

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