After 12 seasons, Eamonn Walker is leaving Firehouse 51.
Unique forged member Walker has portrayed Wallace Boden, the beloved fireplace chief, since Chicago Hearth‘s premiere in 2012. Boden started as Battalion Chief of Battalion 25 earlier than being promoted to Deputy District Chief in season 10 and is presently competing for the position of Deputy Hearth Commissioner.
Though the British actor can be stepping away as a sequence common on the hit NBC sequence, he should still seem in future episodes.
A supply informed Deadline that Boden “continues to be very a lot alive and nicely” and “is anticipated to return to the present in a recurring capability sooner or later.”
Walker made the choice to depart the firefighting drama on his personal, in keeping with the location.
He is not the one one to exit the sequence. Over time, there have been a number of forged modifications on the present. Most just lately, Blake Gallo, portrayed by Alberto Rosende, departed Chicago Hearth. Moreover, Sylvie Brett, performed by Kara Killmer, and her love curiosity Matt Casey, performed by Jesse Spencer, each left the present.
For Walker, 61, the Chicago Hearth workforce has been a household on and off display screen.
“It is primarily the alchemy of individuals, the relationships are what they’re,” Walker informed ET in 2019. “When you have got a superb relationship, it is virtually such as you’re not going to work.”
Followers ought to obtain extra readability on what the long run holds for Boden after Chicago Hearth‘s season 12 finale “By no means Say Goodbye” airs on Wednesday, Might 22.
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