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TV Characters Killed Off Because The Actors Didn't Behave

Allvipp Newsroom / March 29, 2025 - 07:00 am

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Criminal Minds Hotch Thomas Gibson Exit 2016
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Thomas Gibson

In 2010, Thomas Gibson (AKA "Hotch") pushed an assistant director on the set of Criminal Minds and was ordered into anger management classes by the showrunners. Those classes did NOT take it seems, since Gibson was eventually fired from the show after he kicked an executive producer and writer of the series in 2016....!

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In this handout photo provided by the Aspen Police Department, Charlie Sheen is pictured after being arrested on December 25, 2009 in Aspen, Colorado.
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Charlie Sheen

Charlie Sheen was literally deleted from the scripts of Two and a Half Men after insulting producer Chuck Lorre on several different occasions due to intoxication and drug abuse. To add insult to injury, in the final episode of the show, Sheen made a return to the series only to be crushed by a piano in the very last scene... how fun!

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Pinterest Chevy Chase and Donald Glover in 'Community'.
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Chevy Chase

Chevy Chase has been caught with a bad reputation in Hollywood a few times and his time on Community ended poorly. While the show took off, Chase clashed with many producers and cast members and publicly insulted them. His character "Pierce Hawthorne" had to be killed off-screen.

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Pinterest 'Grey's Anatomy: This Is "Izzie", "Cristina" and More Today
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Isaiah Washington

Isaiah Washington starred as "Preston Burke" for the first three seasons of Grey's Anatomy but had to leave the cast because he used a homophobic slur against his co-star T.R. Knight, who played "George O'Malley".

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Pinterest TV Characters Killed Off Because The Actors Misbehaved: Shannen Doherty on Charmed story exit 2021 series shows
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Shannen Doherty

After Shannen Doherty was officially kicked off of the cast of Beverly Hills, 90210 for constant fighting with the producers and her co-stars, she tried her luck again with the series Charmed. This didn't go too well either... After only three seasons of the show, Doherty's character "Prue" magically disappeared, and by that we mean she was killed off the show. Due to endless fighting with the producers, they finally decided to get rid of Doherty in one of the ugliest ways possible.

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Nicolette Sheridan as "Edie Britt" in 'Desperate Housewives'.
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Nicolette Sheridan

Nicolette Sheridan played the role of "Edie" in the hit series Desperate Housewives. After her character's death in 2009, she decided to sue the producer of the show Marc Cherry as well as ABC for alleged harassment and unannounced termination of her contract. In the end, she was not able to win her case.

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Patrick Dempsey Death Season 11 'Grey's Anatomy'.
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Patrick Dempsey

Patrick Dempsey, who so many LOVED as "Dr. Derek Shepherd" on Grey's Anatomy, was killed off in the show, literally, after his character died in a horrific car accident. The alleged reason was that Dempsey had had an affair with one of the actresses on set— oh, and he was married at the time...!

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Mischa Barton played the role of "Marissa Cooper" in 'The O.C.'.
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Mischa Barton

She starred as the beautiful "Marissa Cooper" for three seasons of The O.C., but she did not quit the show but was rather written out of it... Barton apparently did a LOT of partying after work with her friends Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton, which led to her being the biggest diva on set. Eventually, producer Josh Schwartz killed off her character for "a lot of reasons, both creative and cynical," as he told MTV News.

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To find out which stars were killed off their shows because they couldn't behave, take a look at the following gallery!

These TV Characters Were Killed Off Because The Actors Did Not Behave

Sometimes treasured characters have their time cut short because of the actor's behavior, not the story. In these cases, the characters are not worth keeping in the story if they are attached to these particular actors...

Which one were you surprised by?

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