Posted 43 minutes agoSubscribe to BuzzFeed Daily NewsletterCaret Down13 Actors And Directors Who Straight-Up Admitted To Getting Someone FiredTwo "Seinfeld" guest stars were booted from the show to keep the main cast happy!by Kristen HarrisBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink I'm sure plenty of actors have wished they could get a costar fired, but very rarely do they actually have that kind of pull. Or a director may wish they could sack an impossible-to-work-with star, but the studio won't allow it. Sometimes, however, an actor or director is important enough (or the costar is terrible enough!) that they get to send them packing. DreamWorks Pictures / Via giphy.com Here are 13 actors and directors who admitted to getting someone fired: 1. On Celebrity Lie Detector, Tori Spelling admitted that, on the Beverly Hills, 90210 set, tensions between Shannen Doherty and the rest of the cast were high. Describing the incident that was the last straw, Tori said, "Shannen runs in and sits down to get her hair done, and you could just feel everyone was turning and looking. I knew someone was gonna say something." Mikel Roberts / Sygma via Getty Images Shannen got into a "heated fight" with Ian Ziering, who allegedly told her, "You are a C-U-N-T: Can't Understand Normal Thinking." Afterward, the cast banded together to get Shannen fired, so Tori brought the issue to her dad, series producer Aaron Spelling. She continued, "I felt like I was a part of something, a movement that cost someone their livelihood... Was she a horrible person? No. She was one of the best friends I ever had." (C)Aaron Spelling Prods/Courtesy Everett Collection However, Tori felt she made the right decision "in the workplace, as a coworker." Shannen was written out of the show when her character, Brenda Walsh, left for acting school in the UK. (C)Aaron Spelling Prods/Courtesy Everett Collection To replace her, Tiffani Thiessen was introduced as Valerie Malone. Andrew Semel /TM and copyright (C) Fox Network. All rights reserved. / Courtesy Everett Collection On an episode of her podcast Let's Be Clear, Shannen said, "I was in a really horrible marriage, and there were things that were transpiring in that marriage that made it really hard for me to be on time for work... And I know that that became a very big problem for the rest of you, as it should be... It wasn't anybody's responsibility but mine, but I sort of wish I would have been sat down and sort of looked at and said, 'Listen, the end result is going to be this, you are going to get fired and none of us are willing to put up with it anymore. And I understand that you have an issue in your personal life, but that also can't bleed into work, and you need to get your shit together!'" (C)Aaron Spelling Prods/Courtesy Everett Collection 2. Sylvester Stallone got Richard Gere, who originally played Chico Tyrell, removed from The Lords of Flatbush. In a Q&A, Sylvester said, "We never hit it off. He would strut around in his oversized motorcycle jacket like he was the baddest knight at the round table. One day, during an improv, he grabbed me (we were simulating a fight scene) and got a little carried away. I told him in a gentle fashion to lighten up, but he was completely in character and impossible to deal with." Columbia Pictures courtesy Everett Collection, Keystone-France / Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images "Then, we were rehearsing at Coney Island, and it was lunchtime, so we decided to take a break, and the only place that was warm was in the backseat of a Toyota. I was eating a hotdog, and he climbs in with a half a chicken covered in mustard with grease nearly dripping out of the aluminum wrapper. I said, 'That thing is going to drip all over the place.' He said, 'Don't worry about it.' I said, 'If it gets on my pants, you're gonna know about it.' He proceeds to bite into the chicken, and a small, greasy river of mustard lands on my thigh. I elbowed him in the side of the head and basically pushed him out of the car. The director had to make a choice: One of us had to go, one of us had to stay. Richard was given his walking papers and to this day seriously dislikes me. He even thinks I'm the individual responsible for the gerbil rumor. Not true...but that's the rumor," he said. Archive Photos / Getty Images, Daniel SIMON / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images The role was recast with Perry King. Courtesy Everett Collection / Everett Collection / Everett Collection 3. Nearly three decades after Dalton James (who played Mark Reese) was written off Beverly Hills, 90210 early, Jennie Garth, who played his onscreen love interest, admitted it was likely her fault. On her podcast 90210MG, she told Dalton that she complained to the producers that "the chemistry between these characters isn't working out." Fox / Via Pluto TV She said, "When you're young like that, you don't really look at things objectively from different perspectives. I just, I'm glad to hear you say that you don't harbor feelings about it, because
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13 Actors And Directors Who Straight-Up Admitted To Getting Someone Fired
October 15, 2025
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