ALL: What were the worst handled firings of an actor?

[John]

He never went on Med leave. He was diagnosed ALS and MADD fired him. They called it a leave but it wasnt cause soon after MADD made that comment. So Dennis Parlato became the permanent Roger but he was horibby miscast & fired 8 months later

[DeeeDee]

Davetta Sherwood.

[Khan]

Wasn't she fired because someone at CBS/SONY felt she was "too Black" for the role?

[soapfan770]

Christel Khalil infamously said it was because she didn't have God in her life and deserved to be fired or something along those lines.

 

Adrianne Leon was fired around the same time for weight gain from a medication side effect.

Vail Bloom was fired to have a more "famous" actress in the role of Heather. Note to MAB some of us never watched AMC.

 

[YRBB]

 

As far as I recall, Bloom's firing was due to her drug problem.

[frequentsoapfan]

How was she fired do to a drug problem yet Sean Kanan had an ongoing drug problem that was even documented in a rehab series between Y&R stints and they kept hiring him back?

I know she said she had a drug problem that started while she was working on Y&R but she was fired for so they could cast a more known soap star.

[ChitHappens]

Vail admitted it on Vanderpump Rules.  

[robbwolff]

As I recollect, it wasn't a medical leave but a leave of absence that MADD and Rauch forced on him. He asked that his speech problems be written into the show but Rauch refused. A People article from September 1997 said that OLTL asked him to reprise the role of David Renaldi, but he declined because he was in arbitration with GL. At that point, his illness was still undiagnosed.

[dragonflies]

You're assuming the same rules apply to male and female actor's, in the soap world they don't, double standard's run rampant

[titan1978]

I also recall one of them justifying it by saying Roger had to be strong and couldn't be seen as weakened by anything so he had to go.  Am I remembering this correctly?

[~bl~]

Zas had to decline as he was technically still tied to GL even if they had put him on leave and wouldn't let him back on the program. If he went on OLTL, he would have to forfeit. 

Yes it had to do with how someone with his health issues not being able to play the part.

[robbwolff]

From what I saw online, Dwyer Dobbin's exact quote in TV Guide was, "Roger is a powerful, active, sexual, multicolored villain. That's who we need him to be on the GL canvas. We do not need a wizened little old man. And that's what he would have to play in his condition."

[frequentsoapfan]

She admitted to having a drug problem that started while she was on Y&R. I don't remember her saying it was why she got fired from Y&R. 

[YRBB]

So, she was either fired because of a drug problem, or left on her own accord to try to get her act together, or they fired her for Bianca's sake. OK.

 

Not a stretch by any means, especially considering Sean Kanan's much larger history with the Bell soaps,his popularity, celebrity, and, yes, his gender.

[John]

GH Fired Sean Kanan due to addictions in 1997. He said he was clean by the time B&B hired him in 2001. Not sure if he ever relapsed