Did you know?: Scandal actor Columbus Short leaving hit ABC show

Short said: “must confirm my exit from a show I’ve called home for three years.”

Scandal actor Columbus Short said on Friday that he would not be returning to the hit ABC drama for its next season, a month after the actor was arrested on a felony battery charge.

Short, 31, who plays Harrison Wright opposite actor Kerry Washington’s Olivia Pope character, said in a statement, “must confirm my exit from a show I’ve called home for three years.”

“Everything must come to an end and unfortunately, the time has come for Harrison Wright to exit the canvas,” he added, without providing details on the reason for his departure. ABC, owned by Walt Disney Co, did not comment on Short’s exit from the salacious political drama by hit show creator Shonda Rhimes, which ended its third season last week.

Short was charged with felony battery from a March incident in which he allegedly punched and knocked out a male guest at a Los Angeles restaurant.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 27^th, 2014.

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