Posted on 02/19/2019 10:58:13 AM PST by Red Badger
Jussie Smollett has been a regular on "Empire" since its first season.
Jussie Smollett has reportedly been cut from scenes of Fox's "Empire" that are scheduled to be filmed in this week, according to Deadline and TMZ. Smollett has alleged that he was assaulted by two men in a racist and homophobic attack in late January. On Saturday, sources from the Chicago police investigation said that they had reason to believe that Smollett may have paid the men to stage the assault, CNN reported Saturday. Smollett has denied the claims that he orchestrated the attack.
Filming of "Empire" will continue this week, but according to Deadline and TMZ, multiple scenes featuring actor Jussie Smollett have been cut from production.
Smollett has been cut from five of nine scenes as well as a musical number, sources told TMZ. The Fox hit is currently filming in Chicago.
This news comes as police continue to investigate whether Smollett himself was involved in staging a late January assault to make it appear to be a racist and homophobic hate crime, as CNN reported Saturday. Sources told CNN that Chicago Police believe Smollett may have paid two men to stage the attack.
Read more: Chicago police release the 2 men questioned in the Jussie Smollett
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they will lock him in a room and play their rap songs written for the show
But it appears that Monico and Smollett parted ways on Saturday and Smollett hired Chicago attorneys Todd Pugh and Victor Henderson.
As an aside, when attorneys like Michael Monico leave a case, it is not because the client fired him...it is because the attorney concluded (due to new information) that the case is weaker than previously thought.
I wonder what Rosanne is thinking right about now?
Oh, he’s gone. They’re just trying to find a graceful way to do it.
I found that out the other day. Sending a threat by US mail, even a fake, even one to yourself, is a Federal Crime, once authorities have acted on it!!
One day the same may be true about threats on the internet.
Once that happens, Twitter will lose about 45% of it’s customers. All they do is threaten or harass other posters.
Probable just with him in the background.
“FOX” is now owned by ABC/Disney.
Maybe they’ll write a scene where racist, MAGA-hat-wearing homophobes lynch him.
Never take a case you can’t win........................
It’s not printable.......................
They’re giving him more of a chance than they gave Roseanne Barr.
Yet he refuses to talk to the cops, so what are the cops doing..SITTING ON THEIR HANDS.if this were ANYONE else his ass would already be in jail
He’ll go to rehab, come back and say he’s sorry and now his mind is right, and all will be forgiven.
It’s a TV show?
I honestly thought it was a stage play...
Maybe the writers will go back and cut all scenes of Juicy Smuglette out of past episodes. Hey, they made a PG version of Deadpool 2, so anything is possible. It’s kind of like how Trump is erasing Obola’s history and legacy.
It would be great if the Chicago police arrest him while on the set of filming. You’d have to wonder if FOX would film the arrest of their SJW Pajama Soy Boy.
No. He probably gets 250,000 dollars per episode regardless if he has a good contract. However, he better have saved big bucks because I think his future is dim in acting and music.
Those racist homophobes at Fox!
Once that happens, we had best be keeping our own house clean. Intemperate remarks from Conservatives are more likely to gain the attention of the authorities than ones from Leftists.
Any new laws against "hate speech" or "threats" will be selectively used against us.
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