Amid reports that Getty may be facing termination from this TV series
Despite the fact that Balthazar Getty’s behavior in his professional life has been affected by his behavior in his private life (namely his on-going extramarital affair with Sienna Miller) resulting in new reports that he will either have his role on the ABC drama Brothers and Sisters either greatly reduced to recurring character status or axed altogether, Getty appears to be happily carrying on with his lover Sienna Miller. Here are pics of the couple as they made their arrival in Mexico over the weekend and some info about his work drama on Brothers and Sisters from the very reliable Michael Ausiello from Entertainment Weekly magazine:
According to sources, Balthazar Getty, who plays the Oscar winner’s eldest son, was informed last week that producers were not planning on picking up his option as a full-time series regular next season. However, that doesn’t mean that Tommy’s place setting at the Walker dinner table is being permanently removed. Not yet, anyway. Per a B&S source, Getty is currently in talks with the show to stay on in a reduced capacity, perhaps as a recurring guest star. While a rep for the show declined to comment, Getty’s spokesperson denies that the actor is leaving. Rumors about Getty’s possible exit have been grist for the gossip mill for months. The actor’s real-life drama — the collapse of his marriage and ensuing tabloid-ready romance with Sienna Miller — has allegedly alienated him from his co-stars, many of who had grown close to his wife, Rosetta, and their four young children. What’s more, according to E! Online’s Marc Malkin, Getty has been showing up late for work and proving increasingly “difficult” to work with. But per multiple sources, Getty’s sorta-departure is not the result of any one issue but a combination of factors that also includes budgetary and storyline considerations. Tommy has long been considered the most disposable of B&S’s siblings. Removing him, at least as a regular presence, frees up the show to introduce some new blood. In any case, don’t expect Tommy to exit by way of a casket. Although an ABC insider says the idea of killing off a Walker has been discussed, the network would likely view such a twist as “too morbid.” As a result, Tommy is likely to either relocate with his wife and baby, or just drift into the background and reappear for the occasional disastrous dinner party.
I mean, I suppose in this dire economic climate it is very easy to blame things like this on budgetary concerns but I can see how all these factors intermingling together might lead to Getty’s depature (in whatever fashion) from the show. I, too, have been hearing rumblings that Balthazar has been acting a bit shitty to his co-stars on set so … mebbe he just needs to leave the show — and mebbe run off with Sienna? Looks like he’s already got a head-start on that account. The couple have been hooking up about every month so I’m not at all surprised that they’ve jetted off together to Mexico. Looks like they’ll be ringing in the New Year together while sippin’ margaritas on the beaches of Mexico … which sounds like the perfect setting to take one’s mistress while leaving the wife and kids at home. Score!
[Photo credit: INFdaily; Source]
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