Empire has been renewed for a sixth season – but there are “no plans” for Jussie Smollett to return to the show, Fox said. Empire has been renewed for a sixth season – but there are “no plans” for Jussie Smollett to return to the show, Fox said. Fox, the television network which airs musical drama Empire, removed Smollett’s character from the final two episodes of season five and has now said it is unlikely he will return for the newly confirmed sixth season. He alleges two masked men hurled homophobic and racist slurs at him before wrapping a rope around his neck and pouring an unknown substance over him. He also told detectives they shouted he was in “Maga country”, an apparent reference to Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again campaign slogan.

Source: Irish Independent April 30, 2019 22:34 UTC