By Jessica Sager, August 12, 2016

Who is Thomas Gibson??? That's what I said. But then I saw his picture. Oh!!! that guy, not "Hotch" !!! oh dear, my wife will be so sad. ...at least it wasn't "Garcia" getting fired, her other favorite.
He'll be back though ...right??? TM
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Thomas Gibson has been fired from “Criminal Minds” following an on-set fight.

“Thomas Gibson has been dismissed from ‘Criminal Minds,'” ABC Studios and CBS Television Studios said in a joint statement Friday. “Creative details for how the character’s exit will be addressed in the show will be announced at a later date.”

Gibson, 54, was initially suspended for two episodes of the CBS series after a physical altercation with co-executive producer and writer Virgil Williams two weeks ago.

On Friday, Gibson told Page Six in a statement, “I love ‘Criminal Minds’ and have put my heart and soul into it for the last 12 years. I had hoped to see it through to the end, but that won’t be possible now. I would just like to say thank you to the writers, producers, actors, our amazing crew, and, most importantly, the best fans that a show could ever hope to have.”

The actor had previous on-set outbursts, TMZ reported, including one in which he pushed an assistant director and was subsequently sent to anger management courses.

But a source close to Gibson insisted on Thursday that the incident with Williams wasn’t the star’s fault. “[Williams] got very aggressive, so Thomas walked away and then he felt like the guy was coming after him,” the source told us. “He turned around and kicked just on instinct, like a reflex.”



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