John Amos received world recognition for his portrayal of James Evans, Sr. in the CBS television series, Good Times. He also appeared in the miniseries, Roots, for which he was awarded with an Emmy nomination. Amos has also participated in Broadway productions and in countless films during his career, that stretched for forty years. He was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy award and NAACP Image award.
In Good Times, John Amos’ character, James Evans, Sr., embodied the life of a father living in a dangerous area in Chicago. He started developing feelings of dissatisfaction with the direction of the show, however. For Amos, the show was becoming distant from its origins because it was concentrating on Walker and his “Dy-no-mite!” trademark line. John was eventually sacked while Walker was retained. Since his departure from the show, the American actor has slowly made his way back in numerous films and TV shows.
Alec Baldwin, Up Late with Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin rose to prominence following his performance as Joshua Rush in season six and season seven of the CBS television drama, Knots Landing. Since then, he has appeared in numerous movies portraying various distinguished roles, including Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October. From 2006 to 2013, the American actor gave an exceptional ongoing performance as Jack Donaghy on the NBC sitcom, 30 Rock, which garnered him an impressive array of awards, including two Emmys, three Golden Globe awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild awards, making Alec Baldwin the only male actor to have achieved such a number of SAG Awards.
In 2013, he became the host of 'Up Late with Alec Baldwin' on MSNBC, but the show quickly got shut down after just five episodes, mainly because of a street outburst recorded on video. Baldwin was seen bombarding a photographer with a series of angry homophobic rants. While he lost his show out of it, the award-winning actor managed to rebound in his acting career and his hilarious impersonation of Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live will always be remembered as legendary.
Leah Remini, The Talk
Leah Remini shined bright in her performance as Carrie Heffernan in CBS comedy series, The King of Queens, and as a co-host of CBS talk show, The Talk, together with Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Holly Robinson Peete, and Sharon Osbourne. The talk show shared many identical features to The View and mostly involved the women discussing motherhood and contemporary issues.
As it turned out though, Leah Remini didn’t mesh well with her co-stars on The Talk, including Sharon Osbourne. Leah shared to Howard Stern that she was fired because she refused to shut her mouth. Rather, she did what she thought was right, to the dismay of her bosses. The King of Queens actress is also an extremely candid critic (and former member) of Scientology. Since 2016, she was a co-producer and host of the Emmy Award-winning A&E documentary series, Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath. Today, Leah Remini is enjoying a starring role in the show, Kevin Can Wait.
Suzanne Somers, Three's Company
In January of 1977, the late Suzanne Somers secured a prominent role in ABC’s sitcom, Three’s Company. When Susanne Zenor and Susan Lanier delivered mediocre performances during the first two dry runs, the president of ABA, Fred Silverman, recommended Somers after seeing her on The Tonight Show. She eventually passed the audition and secured an acting role for the character, Chrissy Snow, a stereotypical blonde simpleton who worked as an office secretary.
Three’s Company became an instant hit but, in the fifth season, Suzanne demanded an absurd salary increase five times higher than her original pay. She threw in numerous hefty demands as well. Naturally, the producers denied them, so Suzanne responded by boycotting a couple of episodes. In the end, she was booted out of the show after a few minor appearances. Suzanne managed to find plenty of success outside acting though, becoming a prominent product spokesperson (the Thighmaster!) and influencer. She even became an author of self-help books and a couple of autobiographies.
Jeremy Clarkson, Top Gear
Jeremy Clarkson secured the biggest TV role of his career when he became a host of the British motoring program, Top Gear, during its original format. Later on, he hosted the show’s new format from 2002 towards 2015, together with James May and Richard Hammond. Many acknowledge Jeremy for transforming Top Gear into a top-viewed TV program on BBC Two, which was aired in more than 100 countries worldwide.
Despite his major participation and contributions to Top Gear, however, Jeremy Clarkson was put on hold and finally cut off by BBC following his altercation with producer Oisin Tymon in a hotel. He eventually admitted that getting the boot from the series was completely his own fault.