[Conserv]

The network is obviously playing the wait and see game.

A Smollett representative released a statement to The Associated Press suggesting a hope that he may eventually return.

[headstamp 2]

The guy is mentally unstable. Who wants to take on that liability. How long until he cries racism over the decision.

[Conan the Librarian]

As was stated elsewhere “He shouldn’t beat himself up over it”

[aynrandfreak]

They were probably forced into this compromise by the other actors saying that Smollett should return.

[Sans-Culotte]

So, he’s not fired, but his character won’t be needed? Excellent sidestep!

[OttawaFreeper]

Oh my, and I bet it will rank up there with Dennis Weaver leaving Gunsmoke or Mclean Stevenson or Wayne Rogers or Larry Linville or Gary Burghoff quitting MASH or Shelley Long doing the same with Cheers.

[SERKIT]

This obviously makes Jussie available for Soetoro, Mike Obama, and Susan Rice to star in some Netflix productions. If Mike and Barry had a son, he would behave exactly like Jussie.

[Grampa Dave]

Does anyone who, is a conservative American watch any of the bs fairy tales on Fox TV?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Why doesn’t the media use Mr. Smollett’s given first name? Why always the derivative “Jussie”?

Mr. Smollett was born with the name JUSTICE Smollett.
Irony, thou hast a name!

[precisionshootist]

I take this as they are going to pay him anyway but he won’t be in the show?

[Fido969]

He’s taking time off to look for his attackers.

[Celerity]

“that police said was fabricated.”

The courts. These articles all do a little something to cause civil war. Little bit here and there.

[Navy Patriot]

Fox says Jussie Smollett will not return to "Empire" for next season

Fox should bring him back as a Homo child molester-murderer that tried to frame a straight White guy for the crime.

End the season with his hanging.

But Fox has no balls.

[SkyDancer]

Will claim racism and homophobia.

[Delta 21]

Can someone arrest him now?

[bgill]

The reason should have been because he’s in jail.

[a fool in paradise]

They aren’t spinning off xher character to xis own show???

[1Old Pro]

Slow walking his departure to be “sensitive”.

[Yaelle]

They didn’t want him, but there was no legal action against him, so he couldn’t be fired for morals clause violation. Cause Chicago let him completely off the hook. So they asked him not to come in to work for probably 85% of his next year’s salary.

[I want the USA back]

No but he will find employment with no problem from some other White-hating lying POS.

[outofsalt]

Fox was split up in 2019 and is a Disney/ABC subsidiary. They will be revamped to drive down the brand and reflect poorly across the news division which is no longer owned by Rupert Murdoch but by his liberal children.