Mehcad Brooks leaves ‘Law & Order,’ won’t appear on season 25

The detective Jalen Shaw puts his badge.

The actor who plays him, Mehcad Brooks, part, Law and order After three seasons on the long cop show, Weekly entertainment can confirm. Brooks will not be in the 25th season of the show.

According to Deadline, which reported the news for the first time, the separation from ways was mutual and Brooks already pursues other projects. The actor has not yet discussed the news on his social media accounts.

It is understood that the rest of the Law and order The working group – Tony Goldwyn, Reid Scott, Hugh Dancy, Odilya Halevi and Maura Tierney – should however return for the new season.

The final of season 24 offered no clue during an outing for Shaw, and Brooks did not allude to him in an enveloping message shared on his Instagram in April. In this document, he wrote: “It is an envelope of season 24. What incredible, intense and deeply rooted experience. It is a pleasure and a privilege to share the screen with such talented and workers and such a intrepid team that really cares about what we co-create.”

Brooks joined the show for the first time in 2022, after the departure of Anthony Anderson. Shaw was associated with the Scott detective, Vincent Riley. The cast for a new potential partner is underway, but Brooks has already talked about his relationship with his boyfriend on the screen.

“Reid is my brother of another mother, as if we were brothers lost for a long time at birth,” said Brooks at Cinemablend in October 2024. “I don’t know what happened, but I never succeeded with someone so quickly, and he says the same thing.”

Brooks continued: “We have the same sense of humor, both really sarcastic and sardonic. We have a lot of similar interests. We are both scorpions. We simply get along as human beings, and we both work very hard in our work.”

Apart Law and orderBrooks was recently seen in the third season during HBO Max And just like that. In this document, Brooks plays Marion, a film producer hired by Lisa Todd Wexley (played by Nicole Ari Parker). The very married documentary filmmaker confesses to Charlotte (Kristin Davis) that she has a “blow” for Marion and even had a sexy dream about her.

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