'All American' Actor Leaves Show, Character Killed Off in Shocking Episode (Spoilers)

All American fans who tuned in for the latest episode were given a shocking ending when one of the main stars was killed off the show.

You might want to avoid reading the rest of this post if you don’t want to see spoilers, especially if you’re among the millions of people who wait to watch All American until the full seasons are added to Netflix.

So, who is gone? The showrunner of The CW series is speaking out to explain that shocking exit.

Head inside to check out the spoilers…

Taye Diggs has left the show after five seasons

Taye Diggs‘ character Billy Baker was killed off the show in episode 11 of season five.

The tire on the team’s bus blew out and the bus ended up hanging off a cliff. When Billy realized that Jabari was still stuck inside the bus, he went back in to try and rescue him. Billy’s family was informed of his death at the end of the episode.

“I had a pretty good idea at the end of last season that that was where the season was going,” showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll told Variety. “We were so incredibly lucky to have Taye Diggs be part of this production from day one, so one of the things that we’d always talked about was, we have no idea of how long we would be able to hold on to him. I mean, he’s Taye Diggs. So we were like, let’s always make sure we’re communicating with each other, and when it feels like it’s the right time, if we’re both feeling that way, we’ll have the conversation and figure out a really dope way to have him exit the show.”

Carroll knew that this was the only way to have Billy exit the show.

“Even though it was so far in advance, I already knew that whenever it would happen, that this was how I was going to do it. I pitched it to him like I was pitching an episode, beat by beat, even though it was still easily a year away,” she said. “He was like, ‘It feels like the right time and it feels like the right way to do it.’ It just felt right for both of us.”

All American is the only The CW show renewed for next season so far and a report claims that only two more shows will get renewals.