NCIS star Emily Wickersham unveils hair transformation (2024)

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Why was Ellie Bishop written off NCIS? ›

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As a former NSA member, Bishop was an incredibly capable and quick-witted member of the NCIS Major Case Response Team. Bishop ultimately left the series after almost a decade with the team when it was discovered that she had leaked an NSA document in her past career.

Actress Emily Wickersham has unveiled a huge hair transformation and NCIS fans have had a lot to say about the new look.

Emily Wickersham is no longer a part of the NCIS cast. During NCIS Season 18 Episode 16 — the season finale — fans were gobsmacked to learn that Ellie Bishop kept many secrets from her teammates.

Two months after Wickersham's exit, she revealed on Instagram that she was pregnant with her firstborn. Wickersham's pregnancy could have also contributed to her decision to leave the show at the conclusion of season 18.

Although not a permanent departure, McGee temporarily left the team in Season 18 of NCIS to recover from a gunshot wound. This storyline was incorporated to accommodate Sean Murray's absence during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, as he wanted to prioritize the safety of his family.

The two stars reportedly had a number of clashes behind the scenes in 2016 after the Gibbs actor brought his dog to set, where it bit a crew member leaving him needing 15 stitches. Tellingly, the pair did not share the screen together during Pauley's emotional final episode.

Get ready, NCIS fans: Tony DiNozzo is officially back ... and he's here to stay in a way we didn't see coming. After Michael Weatherly surprised fans by reprising his role in a season 21 guest appearance in February 2024, news broke he's returning for a spinoff series at Paramount+.

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EXCLUSIVE: Gibbs is returning to the NCIS universe as the lead of a new CBS drama, which serves as a prequel to the long-running procedural. The network has given a straight-to-series order to NCIS: Origins, about young Leroy Jethro Gibbs, for the 2024-25 broadcast season.

As such, the show's longest-running mystery has been solved. Gibbs knocks down that fourth wall each time he has a boat to remove (and then bricks it back up). Over the years, multiple NCIS characters who have stood in Gibbs' basem*nt have themselves wondered/asked him how he gets his boats out.

Do Nick and Ellie get together? ›

Agents Nick Torres (played by Wilmer Valderrama) and Ellie Bishop (Emily Bishop) never officially got together before the latter's emotional departure in NCIS season 18.

According to Deadline, NCIS producers were behind Jennifer Esposito's exit from the series, contending that "the show [planned] to go in a new creative direction" that didn't involve Alex Quinn.

Jimmy Palmer's wife, Breena, had died of COVID. Due to an imperfect storm of COVID protocols while filming plus the off-screen time jump, viewers didn't get to see Jimmy say farewell to his wife.

NCIS. Spano has been a recurring character of NCIS since its premiere episode, "Yankee White", playing FBI Special Agent Tobias Fornell, the FBI counterpart to NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, portrayed by Mark Harmon. In Season 15, Fornell is no longer with the FBI, but is a private investigator.

Watson told NCISfanatic: "To be fair, I think in planning it, it sounded good, but the way it played out - I think Mike needed more. "When you sum it up to a boy in the rain with a scalpel... it just wasn't enough to get Mike."

This undercover operation would take her away from the team for "too long" of a time, in Bishop's own words, as she was fired from NCIS for leaking the documents. This led to her official exit from the series.

Before Season 19, it was announced that Harmon would only appear in a few episodes before dropping out. He did, however, remain as an executive producer. Based on the changes made to Gibbs' character in NCIS's later seasons, it was clear that Harmon left partly because he was tired of playing the same character.

In June 2019, Perrette tweeted she was "terrified" of Harmon "attacking" her. She said she was not returning to NCIS ever. According Vanity Fair, things soured between the two after Harmon's dog allegedly bit a crew member. "I can't speak to what she's addressing in her tweets.

Summary. Sasha Alexander clarifies the real reason she left NCIS, citing the gruesome filming schedule that led her to exit as Kate Todd. Alexander's exit as Kate on NCIS led to the introduction of Ziva David, shaping the show's future dynamics and love story.