Some site I’ve never heard of is claiming without knowing the details, that Balthazar Getty has just been fired from the hit show Brothers and Sisters. While normally I wouldn’t put too much stock in an unsubstantiated accusation, this has been brewing for a while. In a blind item posted December 2nd, Michael Assiello of Entertainment Weekly wrote about a squinting actor who had been on a successful TV show since the beginning, that was about to get fired due to a combination of budget cuts and general on the set unfriendliness.

Meanwhile E! published a piece on December 18th, about how Balthazar had completely alienated everyone behind the scenes on Brothers and Sisters, with his general moodiness and demanding nature, while at the same time becoming increasingly more prone to forgetting his lines. To make matters worse, remember that extramarital affair with Sienna Miller that destroyed his marriage? Miller had been dating Getty’s Brothers and Sister costar Mathew Rhys before him.

All of which led to a situation where the producers of Brothers and Sisters though everyone would be better off if the show went forward without Getty’s presence. Sorry Balthazar, I’d like to say you’ll be missed but apparently that’s not the case.