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According
to rampant rumors late on Friday, Shannen Doherty has been fired from
her role as the eldest sister on the WB TV series Charmed.
Doherty played Pru Halliwell and co-starred with Holly Marie Combs
and Alyssa Milano.
The show has
been a hot topic of conversation lately as a semi-public feud over
promotion of the show between producers and the WB came right at
the crucial final weeks of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer contract
situation. Next, Milano was rumored to be leaving the show, asking
that her character be killed off (thus actually killing the entire
premise of the program - the power of three sister witches that
the world had been waiting centuries for).
Now, the rumor
that Doherty has been fired (that has been neither confirmed or
denied by Spelling Television - "We have nothing we can tell you
right now" was their official response) has heated up phones, e-mails
and instant messaging at a time when the entire industry is scrambling
to get ready for the fall schedule announcements.
Doherty, long
known as one of the bad girls of TV, had supposedly reformed when
Charmed premiered in 1998. Spelling welcomed her back with open
arms in his new series about three sister witches for the WB. The
love lost between herself and the cast of her old show Beverly
Hills, 90210, was not forgotten though, when she refused to
be part of the finale of the long-running Spelling soap opera.
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