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All American is the only CW scripted show that will be back next season (as of now), so you would think they would do everything to keep its biggest star. However, yesterday we said goodbye to Taye Diggs’ character Billy Barker.
Barker and his team were in a bus accident on the way back from a trip, and the coach saved everyone on the bus as it hung over a cliff. Or so he thought. When he went back in to save Jabari, the bus went over the cliff. And that is the last we will ever see of him.
Diggs spoke with TV Line and shared with them why he decided to leave the show midway through the fifth season. “I was having a great time. It was just a feeling that I got [that I was ready to leave], and I just honored that feeling,” the actor said. “It was maybe mid-fourth season. I don’t even remember, to be honest, because the showrunner [Carroll] and myself are close. We’d been keeping in contact, so she had known, and we’d been talking. And we decided how to go about it, and storylines and whatnot, so it was all above board, and everyone was in the know.”
How do you feel about the heart of the show leaving? Will you still watch?
