Whereas Chicago Fireplace has but to be renewed for a season 14, two of it’s principal stars Daniel Kyri and Jake Lockett will not be set to return.
On Wednesday, April 16, Deadline reported that Kyri, 30, and Lockett, 40, are planning to go away the long-running sequence as a result of potential finances cuts. The outlet famous that a number of Chicago Fireplace regulars contracts are up, which hints at the opportunity of extra exits.
Kyri has performed firefighter Darren Ritter within the NBC drama since 2018 whereas Lockett has portrayed firefighter Sam Carver since 2022.
Whereas Kyri and Lockett will not be anticipated to return for season 14, sources near manufacturing advised Deadline that Kyri and Ritter “should get correct endings for his or her characters” as season 13 remains to be airing.
Kyri took to social media to verify his upcoming departure from the sequence after seven years.
“I’ll miss this character, and it’s time to maneuver on,” he wrote through his Instagram Story on Wednesday. “Thanks to the solid, crew, & the superior followers.”

(l-r) Jake Lockett as Sam Carver, Daniel Kyri as Darren Ritter on Chicago Fireplace Elizabeth Sisson/NBC
Lockett has but to touch upon the information.
Chicago Fireplace, which has been airing on NBC since 2012, is at the moment in its thirteenth season and follows the skilled and private lives of the Chicago Fireplace Division on the fictional Firehouse 51. The sequence at the moment stars Kyri, Lockett, Taylor Kinney, David Eigenberg, Joe Miñoso, Christian Stolte, Miranda Rae Mayo, Hanako Greensmith, Jocelyn Hudon and Dermot Mulroney.
The NBC present not too long ago made headlines when information broke that Eamonn Walker can be returning as Wallace Boden in season 13, regardless of exiting Chicago Fireplace in Could 2024 after 12 seasons.
“[We are] so excited to have our beloved Chief Boden again, and the episode, titled Put up-Mortem, is a thrill experience not like any we’ve accomplished earlier than,” showrunner Andrea Newman teased in a March press launch. “Informed with flashbacks and distinctive POVs, Chief Boden leads our staff on a search to find the how, who, and why of a fierce firefight that resulted in catastrophe.”
Walker, 62, shared that “it was not simple” coming again to the present once more as a visitor star in a single episode which aired on Wednesday, April 16.
“So the primary week out, I had this [thought], ‘How do I get Boden’s voice again?’” Walker, who’s British, defined to Collider in an interview printed on Monday, April 14. “So I known as up Tanera Marshall, who’s my voice coach in Chicago, and I used to be like, ‘I want three days with you to get Boden’s voice again. I can work on the physicality later, however let’s get his voice again. That’ll be the beginning of the journey.”
The actor shared that it was “wonderful” to work with Marshall once more and put Boden’s costumes again on.
“It was incredible to be again with the folks I like and who love me again, and the welcoming was wonderful,” he gushed to the outlet. “They’ve a really, very particular place in my coronary heart.”