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** Actress Creator/LoriLoughlin (best known for portraying Rebecca Donaldson-Katsopolis in ''Series/FullHouse'' and ''Series/FullerHouse'') and her second husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, paid a bribe of $500,000, disguised as a charitable donation, so that the University of Southern California's (USC) admissions committee would be led to believe that her two daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose Giannulli, would join the school's women's rowing program; in truth, they had never been involved in rowing and had no plans to join the program. The Creator/HallmarkChannel fired her from her role as recurring character Abigail Stanton in ''Series/WhenCallsTheHeart'' after the arrest and removed all of her scenes from the remaining episodes of the sixth season (although after serving her sentence, she reprised her role for the spinoff ''Series/WhenHopeCalls''[[note]]after its ChannelHop to GAC Family[[/note]]) and cancelled ''The Garage Sale Mysteries'' [[https://twitter.com/jean_morel/status/1106594631981170690 with one installment still to be completed]]. Creator/{{Netflix}} also [[https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/03/lori-loughlin-fired-fuller-house/ fired Loughlin]] from the final season of ''Fuller House''. Loughlin and Giannulli, who were both looking at 50 years in prison if found guilty if they had gone to court, didn't endear themselves with what was widely seen as a ridiculously arrogant reaction to the scandal, signing autographs outside the courtroom before the initial hearing and then refusing to plead guilty even though they were offered a very fair plea deal.[[note]]According to an anonymous source close to the family, they actually thought the judge was ''bluffing'' about how bad things could get if they went this route, and you could actually pinpoint the moment it dawned on Loughlin that this wasn't something she could just buy her way out of.[[/note]] They fought the charges for about a year before taking a plea deal, and in August 2020, Loughlin received a two-month prison sentence, while Giannulli drew five, with proportionate fines and community service for the both of them. She reported for her sentence in October a few weeks ahead of the date given by the judge so she could be out by Christmas. As for Olivia and Isabella, both dropped out of USC, but not before speculation that the school would expel them just to save face. Olivia has stated in interviews she and Lori became estranged since the scandal.

* There are multiple conflicting accounts explaining why [[Creator/MuppetPerformers Steve Whitmire]], the successor to the late Creator/JimHenson as the performer of Kermit the Frog, was fired from ''Franchise/TheMuppets'' after almost 40 years with the troupe. In a [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-says-fired-kermit-frog-actor-unacceptable-business-conduct-1021701 statement]] given to ''The Hollywood Reporter'', Whitmire claimed he was terminated over CreativeDifferences: Creator/{{Disney}} (the current owner of ''The Muppets'') wanted to radically alter the behavior of Kermit for the [[Series/TheMuppets2015 short-lived ABC series]], but Whitmire felt the changes were short-sighted and an insult to Henson's legacy[[note]]In the statement, he cited a specific scene from the Creator/{{ABC}} series in which Kermit lies to Robin about breaking up with Miss Piggy, which Whitmire tried unsuccessfully to convince the creative team to change[[/note]]. However, in their own statement for the ''Reporter'', Disney claimed that Whitmire was fired over many years of backstage egotism, claiming that his behavior on-set caused production delays and was becoming increasingly difficult to work with. Brian Henson, Jim's son, supports this theory, adding that Whitmire was making "outrageous demands" while also admitting that creative differences did play a role.[[note]]Basically, Whitmire's performance was becoming increasingly stale through {{Flanderization}} to one specific type; whereas Jim Henson had portrayed Kermit more like a rascal with a heart of gold, Whitmire had molded him into a much more wholesome character with hardly any of the prankster qualities, if at all, that he had displayed when Jim was alive.[[/note]] Regardless, this applies to both scenarios since the termination wasn't voluntary. His most notable role, Rizzo the Rat, also [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome disappeared]] following his firing.

** Kevin Clash, who became Elmo's performer in 1985, went on a leave of absence after allegations arose that he had sex with a 16-year-old. The allegations were soon disproven, though just as it looked like he'd recover from that incident, a new allegation of the same kind from another party led him to quit the show and have Ryan Dillon take over the role of Elmo. Fortunately, he would eventually be cleared of all sex abuse charges in 2014, and while he has never returned to ''Sesame Street'', or even Elmo, the rest of his puppeteering career at The Creator/JimHenson Company remains unaffected.

* Creator/CarlAnthonyPayneII was allegedly fired from ''The Cosby Show'' for [[DisproportionateRetribution refusing to cut his hair]].

* [[Creator/RKOPictures RKO General]] was permanently banned from broadcasting in 1987 due to a wide variety of licensing misconducts dating back to 1965. The FCC vowed to reject any appeals on the decision; however, it gave RKO General the opportunity to wind down its operations peaceably, which it did by 1991, after which it went out of business. An epic case of a Company Ending Misdemeanor if there ever was one.
** Meanwhile, Creator/RKOPictures would merge with a company called Pavilion Communications in 1989, and started producing and distributing films again.

** Actress Creator/LoriLoughlin (best known for portraying Rebecca Donaldson-Katsopolis in ''Series/FullHouse'' and ''Series/FullerHouse'') and her second husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, paid a bribe of $500,000, disguised as a charitable donation, so that the University of Southern California's (USC) admissions committee would be led to believe that her two daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose Giannulli, would join the school's women's rowing program; in truth, they had never been involved in rowing and had no plans to join the program. The Creator/HallmarkChannel fired her from her role as recurring character Abigail Stanton in ''Series/WhenCallsTheHeart'' after the arrest and removed all of her scenes from the remaining episodes of the sixth season (although after serving her sentence, she reprised her role for the spinoff ''Series/WhenHopeCalls''[[note]]after its ChannelHop to GAC Family[[/note]]) and cancelled ''The Garage Sale Mysteries'' [[https://twitter.com/jean_morel/status/1106594631981170690 with one installment still to be completed]]. Creator/{{Netflix}} also [[https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/03/lori-loughlin-fired-fuller-house/ fired Loughlin]] from the final season of ''Fuller House''. Loughlin and Giannulli, who were both looking at 50 years in prison if found guilty if they had gone to court, didn't endear themselves with what was widely seen as a ridiculously arrogant reaction to the scandal, signing autographs outside the courtroom before the initial hearing and then refusing to plead guilty even though they were offered a very fair plea deal.[[note]]According to an anonymous source close to the family, they actually thought the judge was ''bluffing'' about how bad things could get if they went this route, and you could actually pinpoint the moment it dawned on Loughlin that this wasn't something she could just buy her way out of.[[/note]] They fought the charges for about a year before taking a plea deal, and in August 2020, Loughlin received a two-month prison sentence, while Giannulli drew five, with proportionate fines and community service for the both of them. She reported for her sentence in October a few weeks ahead of the date given by the judge so she could be out by Christmas.
*** As for Olivia and Isabella, both dropped out of USC, but not before speculation that the school would expel them just to save face. Olivia has stated in interviews she and Lori became estranged since the scandal.

* After Creator/NoelClarke was accused of sexual harrassment and bullying by over 20 women in April 2021, his membership to UsefulNotes/{{BAFTA}} was suspended (as was his special BAFTA for contributions to British cinema, which had been awarded to him less than a month before the allegations were made), Creator/{{ITV}} pulled the final episode of his series ''Viewpoint'' from broadcast hours before it was due to be aired - advertisers had been pulling their ads from the five-episode series that was airing on a daily basis that week, thus it aired on ITV's streaming service ITV Hub instead and removed him from a writer mentoring scheme, while Creator/{{Sky}} suspended work on all projects with him, cancelling ''Bulletproof''.

* Creator/CarlAnthonyPayneII was allegedly fired from ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' for [[DisproportionateRetribution refusing to cut his hair]].
** Some sources say that Creator/LisaBonet was exiled from the show to its SpinOff ''Series/ADifferentWorld'' after [[ContractualPurity participating in an explicit sex scene]] in the movie ''Film/AngelHeart''. Others say Bonet (who apparently is an even bigger {{Cloudcuckoolander}} than her character, Denise) constantly butted heads with Creator/BillCosby, who used ''Film/AngelHeart'' as a "last straw" excuse.

* Portuguese television host Carlos Cruz had a very successful career, hosting shows as serving as program director in all four terrestrial channels including the Portuguese version of ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' on [=RTP1=] before it was derailed in late 2003 after being charged with multiple counts of child sexual abuse that occurred a year ago at Casa Pia, a Portuguese state-run institution for the education and support of poor children and under-age orphans, and SIC terminated his contract in light of the allegations. After being convicted in 2010 that led to him serving six years in a seven-year sentence before being paroled in 2016, his title of the Order of Infante D. Henrique was revoked in 2015 as a result.
** Comedian Herman José almost had his career derailed after being accused of the same crimes from the same year before he was acquitted after it was discovered that he was in UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}, covering the UsefulNotes/RioDeJaneiro Carnival for SIC at the time of the crimes happening.

* Midway through production of ''Series/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher2023'' (an adaptation of the Creator/EdgarAllanPoe short story [[Literature/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher of the same name]] by Creator/MikeFlanagan), Creator/FrankLangella was fired from his role of lead character Roderick Usher and recast with Creator/BruceGreenwood after being accused of and investigated for misconduct on-set. Reportedly, Langella made many cast and crew members uncomfortable due to frequently making crass and insensitive jokes and remarks (especially of a sexual nature) and touching people without their consent; one of the main incidents that lead to the investigation and Langella's subsequent removal was him touching the leg of his co-star Ruth Codd (an amputee who wears a prosthetic leg) during a sex scene, which wasn't scripted nor agreed upon by Codd and the intimacy coordinator beforehand, and upset Codd enough that she left the set.

* Midway through production of ''Series/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher2023'' (an adaptation of the Creator/EdgarAllanPoe short story [[Literature/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher of the same name]] by Creator/MikeFlanagan), Creator/FrankLangella was fired from his role of lead character Roderick Usher and recast with Creator/BruceGreenwood after being accused of and investigated for misconduct on-set. Reportedly, Langella made many cast and crew members uncomfortable due to frequently making crass and insensitive jokes and remarks (especially of a sexual nature) and touching people without their consent; one of the main incidents that lead to the investigation and Langella's subsequent removal was him touching his co-star Ruth Codd (an amputee who wears a prosthetic leg)'s leg during a sex scene, which wasn't scripted nor agreed upon by Codd and the intimacy coordinator beforehand, which upset Codd enough that she left the set.

* Fanny Cradock was the doyenne of Creator/TheBBC cookery shows from 1955 to 1976. Then came ''The Big Time'', a show in which talented amateurs in various fields were given a shot at a major event, with professional advisors. Cradock was one of the advisors for the cookery episode, and completely dominated it, showing total condescension towards the contestant (chosen because she had won the Cook of the Realm competition that same year), insisting that all her menu decisions weren't "proper", and at one point ''gagging'' at how "sickly" the food was. The public and press united in outrage, and Cradock never again appeared on a cookery show, although she did do the talk show and panel game circuit.

* Creator/VH1's short-lived reality show ''Megan Wants a Millionaire'' was short-lived for a very grisly reason: one of the contestants, Ryan Jenkins, was wanted for questioning—and later charged outright—in the murder of his wife, Jasmine Fiore. Only three episodes were aired in August 2009, before [=VH1=] cancelled the show and scrubbed all mention of it from the airwaves and the Internet in light of the events. Jenkins would [[DrivenToSuicide hang himself]] three days later in a hotel room while on run from the law.
** Jenkins had also been a contestant on another [=VH1=] reality show, ''I Love Money''. The accusations against him and his subsequent suicide led to the show's third season being cancelled the next day—with its fourth and final season only escaping a similar fate due to viewer demand.

* ''Series/LoveAndHipHopAtlanta'': Erica Mena was fired from Season 11 of the reality show after she directed a racial slur at castmate Spice during an argument they were having.

** First, actor Bryan Callen (who plays PE coach Rick Mellor) was dropped after allegations of rape and underage sex have been made against him. At the time of writing no charges have been made, but it has been confirmed Callen will not be in the eighth series run.

* Adrienne Bailon, along with her then-boyfriend Rob Kardashian and her manager, staged a fake nude photo controversy involving a stolen laptop in order to boost her fading career. The controversy caused a cancellation of Film/TheCheetahGirls performance at the 2008 UsefulNotes/MacysThanksgivingDayParade, and eventually led to the Cheetah Girls' dissolution. Previously, Bailon's recurring character Alana Rivera was also dropped from ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' because of backstage catfights with Creator/RavenSymone. Raven eventually left the Cheetah Girls as well (she was never an official member and only worked with the group for their first two films). Fortunately, she was eventually allowed to return for ''Series/RavensHome'', 18 years later.

* Chris Langham was written out of ''Series/TheThickOfIt'', despite playing the main character. Being arrested for downloading child pornography will do that to you. [[BreakoutCharacter Malcolm Tucker]] (Creator/PeterCapaldi) became the de facto main character from the 2007 specials onward. His conviction also led to the episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' on which he was the featured guest becoming a BannedEpisode.

* Midway through production of ''Series/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher2023'' (an adaptation of the Creator/EdgarAllanPoe short story [[Literature/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher of the same name]] by Creator/MikeFlanagan), Creator/FrankLangella was fired and recast with Creator/BruceGreenwood after being accused of and investigated for misconduct on-set. Reportedly, Langella made many cast and crew members uncomfortable due to frequently making crass and insensitive jokes and remarks (especially of a sexual nature) and touching people without their consent; one of the main incidents that lead to the investigation and Langella's subsequent removal was him touching his co-star Ruth Codd (an amputee who wears a prosthetic leg)'s leg during a sex scene, which wasn't scripted nor agreed upon by Codd and the intimacy coordinator beforehand, which upset Codd enough that she left the set.

*** Luke Valentine was [[https://youtu.be/RuYKkd5-o9Y expelled]] from Season 25 after he said the N-word during a conversation.

*** Luke Valentine was expelled from Season 25 after he said the N-word during a conversation.

** The [[UsefulNotes/UnitedStates US]] version of the show has seen four contestants expelled from the house for misbehavior.

* Midway through production of ''Series/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher2023'', an adaptation of the Creator/EdgarAllanPoe short story [[Literature/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher of the same name]] by Creator/MikeFlanagan, Tony Award-winning and UsefulNotes/AcademyAward-nominated actor Creator/FrankLangella, after being accused of misconduct on-set, was fired and recast with Creator/BruceGreenwood. Reportedly, Langella made many cast and crew members uncomfortable due to frequently making crass and insensitive jokes and remarks (especially of a sexual nature) and touching people without their consent; one of the main incidents that lead to the investigation and Langella's subsequent removal was him touching his co-star Ruth Codd (an amputee who wears a prosthetic leg)'s leg during a sex scene, which wasn't scripted nor agreed upon by Codd and the intimacy coordinator beforehand, which upset Codd enough that she left the set.

* Midway through production of ''Series/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher2023'', an adaptation of the Creator/EdgarAllanPoe short story [[Literature/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher of the same name]] by Creator/MikeFlanagan, Tony Award-winning and UsefulNotes/AcademyAward-nominated actor Creator/FrankLangella, after being accused of misconduct on-set, was fired and recast with Creator/BruceGreenwood. Reportedly, Langella made many cast and crew members uncomfortable due to frequently making crass and insensitive jokes and remarks (especially of a sexual nature) and touching people without their consent; one of the main incidents that lead to the investigation and Langella's subsequent removal was him touching an Ruth Codd (an amputee who wears a prosthetic leg)'s leg during a sex scene, which wasn't scripted nor agreed upon by Codd and the intimacy coordinator beforehand, which upset Codd enough that she left the set.

* Midway through production of ''Series/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher2023'', an adaptation of the Creator/EdgarAllanPoe short story [[Literature/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher of the same name]] by Creator/MikeFlanagan, Tony Award-winning and UsefulNotes/AcademyAward-nominated actor Creator/FrankLangella, after being accused of misconduct on-set, was fired and recast with Creator/BruceGreenwood. Reportedly, Langella made many cast and crew members uncomfortable due to frequently making crass and insensitive jokes and remarks (especially of a sexual nature) and touching people without their consent; one of the main incidents that lead to the investigation and Langella's subsequent removal was him touching an actress's leg during a sex scene, which wasn't scripted nor agreed upon by the actress and intimacy coordinator beforehand, which upset the actress enough that she left the set.

* Creator/RubyRose was allegedly fired from ''Series/{{Batwoman|2019}}'' in 2021 because of "multiple complaints about her workplace behavior". Rose has contested this, claiming that she quit the show because of a toxic and unsafe work environment.

* Midway through production of ''Series/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher2023'', an adaptation of the Creator/EdgarAllanPoe short story [[Literature/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher of the same name]] by Creator/MikeFlanagan, Tony Award-winning and UsefulNotes/AcademyAward-nominated actor Creator/FrankLangella, after being accused of misconduct on-set, was fired and recast with Creator/BruceGreenwood.

* Rebecca Gayheart's involvement in a 2001 vehicular manslaughter may have contributed to her departure from ''Series/DeadLikeMe'' after 5 episodes. In that series, she [[HarsherInHindsight played the role of a "Grim Reaper"]], helping the dead pass on to the afterlife. According to [[https://tviv.org/Dead_Like_Me/Betty_Rhomer this]], Gayheart's character Betty was written out by the fifth episode intentionally, though the series creator, Creator/BryanFuller, had to fight with studio execs to prevent Gayheart from being replaced by another actress. If Fuller hadn't left the series early in the first season, Betty would have returned by the beginning of the second season, which is what he had intended. Once he left, the studio execs changed the plotline for the second season so that Betty would never return.

* During the late 2017 Hollywood Sexual Harassment Scandal, Creator/MarkSchwahn - Creator and showrunner of ''Series/OneTreeHill'' and ''Series/TheRoyals'' - was accused of sexual harassment and assault in an open letter signed by the majority of the female cast and crew of ''One Tree Hill'', with Creator/HilarieBurton and Creator/DaneelAckles specifically citing the harassment they received as the reason they left the show and offering [[http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/one-tree-hill-mark-schwahn-harassment-assault-1202617918/ specifics about Schwahn's behaviour in an interview with Variety]], whilst a second open letter signed by twenty five female members of the cast and crew of ''The Royals'' corroborated the initial accusations. Schwahn was subsequently fired from ''The Royals'' and has not worked in television since.

* Tony Award-winning and UsefulNotes/AcademyAward-nominated actor Creator/FrankLangella was fired midway through production on Creator/MikeFlanagan's adaptation of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's ''Literature/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher'' after he was accused of misconduct on-set. Langella's part was later recast with Creator/BruceGreenwood.
* Showrunner Creator/PeterMLenkov helmed three of Creator/{{CBS}}'s rebooted dramas during the 2010s -- ''Series/HawaiiFive0'', ''Series/MacGyver2016'', and ''Series/MagnumPI2018'' -- until he was fired from the network in July 2020. Soon afterward came a troubling ''Vanity Fair'' [[https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/07/the-fall-of-a-cbs-showrunner article]] which reported that Lenkov was fired for being an emotionally abusive tyrant who created a [[HostilityOnTheSet hostile work environment]] for his writers and actors. Among Lenkov's ''many'' accusers was Creator/LucasTill, who claimed that Lenkov's body-shaming caused him to be suicidal during his first year as the lead star of ''[=MacGyver=]''. Till also accused Lenkov of pressuring dwarf actor Meredith Eaton to return to work when she was in recovery for an on-set injury, reducing her to tears. The article also revived allegations of racism against Lenkov from 2017, when Creator/DanielDaeKim and Creator/GracePark (both Asian-Americans) left ''Hawaii Five-0'' over pay disparities (given the fact that both Kim and Park were more established actors yet were still being paid less than the white actors, and that as its title indicates the series is set in UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}}, known for its heavy AAPI population, yet still chose to let go their Asian-American actors), after which Lenkov reportedly castigated Kim for "bringing 'equality' into it" instead of taking the "classy" route into resolving the dispute. (For his part, Lenkov denied all of the allegations in the ''Vanity Fair'' article.)

* Fanny Cradock was the doyenne of TheBBC cookery shows from 1955 to 1976. Then came ''The Big Time'', a show in which talented amateurs in various fields were given a shot at a major event, with professional advisors. Cradock was one of the advisors for the cookery episode, and completely dominated it, showing total condescension towards the contestant (chosen because she had won the Cook of the Realm competition that same year), insisting that all her menu decisions weren't "proper", and at one point ''gagging'' at how "sickly" the food was. The public and press united in outrage, and Cradock never again appeared on a cookery show, although she did do the talk show and panel game circuit.

** Actress Creator/LoriLoughlin (best known for portraying Rebecca Donaldson-Katsopolis in ''Series/FullHouse'' and ''Series/FullerHouse'') and her second husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, paid a bribe of $500,000, disguised as a charitable donation, so that the University of Southern California's (USC) admissions committee would be led to believe that her two daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose Giannulli, would join the school's women's rowing program; in truth, they had never been involved in rowing and had no plans to join the program. The Creator/HallmarkChannel fired her from her role as recurring character Abigail Stanton in ''Series/WhenCallsTheHeart'' after the arrest and removed all of her scenes from the remaining episodes of the sixth season (although after serving her sentence, she reprised her role for the spinoff ''Series/WhenHopeCalls'') and cancelled ''The Garage Sale Mysteries'' [[https://twitter.com/jean_morel/status/1106594631981170690 with one installment still to be completed]]. Creator/{{Netflix}} also [[https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/03/lori-loughlin-fired-fuller-house/ fired Loughlin]] from the final season of ''Fuller House''. Loughlin and Giannulli, who were both looking at 50 years in prison if found guilty if they had gone to court, didn't endear themselves with what was widely seen as a ridiculously arrogant reaction to the scandal, signing autographs outside the courtroom before the initial hearing and then refusing to plead guilty even though they were offered a very fair plea deal.[[note]]According to an anonymous source close to the family, they actually thought the judge was ''bluffing'' about how bad things could get if they went this route, and you could actually pinpoint the moment it dawned on Loughlin that this wasn't something she could just buy her way out of.[[/note]] They fought the charges for about a year before taking a plea deal, and in August 2020, Loughlin received a two-month prison sentence, while Giannulli drew five, with proportionate fines and community service for the both of them. She reported for her sentence in October a few weeks ahead of the date given by the judge so she could be out by Christmas.

** Creator/DannyMasterson was fired from Creator/{{Netflix}}'s ''Series/TheRanch'' after accusations of rape against him began to surface. He also took Netflix exec Andy Yeatman with him in the fallout, when Yeatman bluntly said that neither he nor the company believed the accusations (to add insult to injury, he revealed this to one of the ''accusers'', unaware of who she was). He was also not invited back for the ''Series/That70sShow'' SequelSeries ''Series/That90sShow''. Masterson would be convicted of two counts of forcible rape in May 2023 (with the jury hanging 8-4 in favor of conviction on a third count) and was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison in September 2023.

** Creator/DannyMasterson was fired from Creator/{{Netflix}}'s ''Series/TheRanch'' after accusations of rape against him began to surface. He also took Netflix exec Andy Yeatman with him in the fallout, when Yeatman bluntly said that neither he nor the company believed the accusations (to add insult to injury, he revealed this to one of the ''accusers'', unaware of who she was). He was also not invited back for the That 70s Show SequelSeries That 90s Show. Masterson would be convicted of two counts of forcible rape in May of 2023 (with the jury hanging 8-4 in favor of conviction on a third count) and is facing a sentence of 30 years to life in prison.