Axed Wednesday star Percy Hynes White has a very normal new job almost two years after he was dropped from the hit show amid sexual assault allegations.
Hynes White, who played Xavier Thorpe in the Netflix show’s first season, was written out after he was accused of purposefully getting women drunk at a Toronto party he hosted so he could have sex with them.
Hynes White adamantly denied all the allegations, branding them a ‘campaign of misinformation.’
As season two gets underway without him, the actor, 23, was seen working the door at a Santa Monica bar this week.
A smiling Hynes White checked IDs, manned the velvet rope and greeted guests on the night.
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Axed Wednesday star Percy Hynes White has a very normal new job almost two years after he was dropped from the hit show amid sexual assault allegations
He played a psychic Nevermore student, Xavier Thorpe, who was one of the two main male leads and a romantic interest for Wednesday (Jenna Ortega)
Hynes White had been a rising star – with notable appearances in The Twilight Zone and The Gifted – before the allegations emerged in a now-deleted Tweet posted by an anonymous social media user on January 18 2023.
The poster claimed she had been sexually assaulted by the actor at a party he was hosting and accused him of throwing the bash with the intention of getting women drunk enough to get them to have sex with him.
‘Percy is wonderful young man, that’s the truth,’ an insider told Daily Mail at the time.
‘He never took part in any of the false claims again him, which were on Twitter and never followed up or substantiated.
‘Percy is respectful, gracious, talented actor, a true professional. He’s unfailingly polite to all, including the crew and his fans, most of whom are loyal to him as it should be.
‘For Netflix to drop him from the show is a disgrace. It was just false rumors. It’s just not right.’
In June 2023 he issued a statement regarding the since-deleted anonymous social media posts from that past January.
In his impassioned post, he wrote: ‘Earlier this year, somebody I’ve never met started a campaign of misinformation about me online. Because of this, my family has been doxxed, and my friends have received death threats. Underage photos of me were used, and examples of me acting in character were presented as hateful.’
As season two gets underway without him, the actor, 23, was seen working the door at a Santa Monica bar this week
A smiling Hynes White checked IDs, manned the velvet rope and greeted guests on the night
The actor was seen chatting with guests outside the bar
The actor was seen sipping on a drink during a break
He worked diligently on the night
Hynes White was seen letting bar patrons through
White’s character was written out out of the show by sending him to a European school
The actor took to his Instagram Story last year to repost a cast photo and wrote a caption about how he would be tuning in to the upcoming season
Hynes White is seen with former co-star Jenna Ortega in January 2023
He then went on about how one of his friends was ‘falsely portrayed as a victim’ and condemned the ‘baseless, harmful claims.’
In September 2023 Daily Mail exclusively revealed he had been axed from the show.
Even though he would not be returning to Wednesday, he does have other projects in the pipeline, including teen horror film Whistle.
Ortega — who is starring in the upcoming, highly anticipated Beetlejuice sequel — will be returning as Wednesday Addams.
Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán, Isaac Ordonez and Luyanda Unati Lewis Nyawo will be upped to series regulars for the upcoming season.
Zeta-Jones plays Wednesday’s mother Morticia while Guzmán plays father Gomez and Ordonez plays little brother Pugsley.
Emma Myers, Joy Sunday, Hunter Doohan, Victor Dorobantu, Moosa Mostafa, and Georgie Farmer will also be returning.
Fred Armisen and Jamie McShane will be making appearances in guest roles.
Other new series regulars will include Billie Piper (Scoop), Evie Templeton (Return to Silent Hill), Owen Painter (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Noah Taylor (Law & Order: Organized Crime).
Fargo star Steve Buscemi, 66, will also be a new series regular, and Thandiwe Newton was recently cast for a guest star role.
Naomi J. Ogawa is exiting the series, according to Deadline.
Jamie McShane will also be leaving his full capacity role, but he will be making minor guest appearances as his character Sheriff Donovan Galpin.
