More than six years after leaving Fox Empire In the middle of a tumult on an allegedly staged attack, Jussie Smollett returns to the network.
Smollett will be part of the network competition emission Special forces: the most difficult test in the world in autumn. The actor and singer is one of the 18 celebrities that take up a series of challenges that reflect those of the training of the military special forces.
The other competitors of the season are Kody Brown (TLC Sisters wives), Brittany Cartwright (Bravo’s The valley), Randall Cobb (former NFL player), Eric Decker (former NFL player), Jessie James Decker (Country music artist), Andrew East (former NFL player), Shawn Johnson East (Golding Olympic Gymnast), Mark Estes (“Internet Personality”), Gia Giudice, Teresa Giudice (Real New Jersey housewives), Chanel Iman (model), Brianna Lapaglia (“Internet Personality” alias Brianna Chickenfry), Johnny Manziel (former winner of the Heisman Trophy and NFL player), Eva Marcille (Mannequin and actress), Ravi V. Patel (Fox’s’s’s Animal control), Christie Pearce Rampone (World Cup winner with the American women’s football team) and Nick Young (former NBA player).
The cast also presents some family relationships: Eric and Jessie James Decker are married, just like Andrew East and Shawn Johnson East. Teresa and Gia Giudice are a mother and daughter.
Smollett played on the drama of the Fox music industry Empire For five seasons from 2015 to 29. In January 2019, he said he was attacked in Chicago, where Empire Filmed by two black men who have shouted homophobic insults. The two men then declared that Smollett had paid them to organize the attack and that Sollett had been accused of having submitted a false police report; The charges were then abandoned after Smollett paid a fine and did a community service. His character was written from Empire’S last season, although he stayed under contract with the series.
In 2020, however, he was reinstated by a special prosecutor and found guilty of five disorderly conduct of conduct for crime linked to the filing of false reports in 2021. He served six days in prison before being released; The Supreme Court of Illinois canceled its conviction in 2024, judging that the second set of accusations violated the rights of the regular Smollett procedure.
Smollett supported throughout the case that he had not staged the crime. He recently participated in a Netflix documentary entitled The truth about Jussie Smollett? This should be presented on August 22 on the streamer.
Special forces will be presented at first on September 25 on Fox.
