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Fresh reports have surfaced claiming Jussie Smollett’s Empire character could be recast or even killed off.
With Jussie facing 16 Class 4 Felony charges for disorderly conduct for filing a false report, his return to the FOX show is up in the air.
Jussie’s character Jamal was written out of the final two episodes of the season in the wake of his arrest for falsifying a police report. And now Empire bosses are said to thinking about their next steps.
Variety reports that ‘many options are on the table’, and it is ‘possible the character could be killed off or the role could be recast’. Read more