{"id":324330,"date":"2025-10-22T17:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/324330\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:05:11","slug":"morning-show-shocker-as-greta-lee-exits-before-season-4-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/324330\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Morning Show&#8217; shocker as Greta Lee exits before Season 4 finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She\u2019s saying goodbye to UBA-NBN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Morning Show\u201d is having a\u00a0cast shakeup, as a major star is exiting the Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston Apple drama, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/16\/entertainment\/jennifer-anistons-new-morning-show-office-rival-gushes-over-bucket-list-role\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">currently in its fourth season.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just going to say straight up, I think this is the end,\u201d Greta Lee, 42, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/greta-lee-confirms-the-morning-show-exit-she-is-free-exclusive-11834578\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told People.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greta Lee on \u201cThe Morning Show.\u201d  Apple TV<\/p>\n<p>Reese Witherspoon on \u201cThe Morning Show.\u201d  Apple TV<\/p>\n<p>She was referring to how her character, Stella Bak, departed the show in the middle of Season 4.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the episode \u201cIf Then,\u201d Stella, the CEO of the company UBN-NBN, which has the fictional morning show, exits amid a scandal. She has an affair with Miles (Aaron Pierre) that gets exposed, and she leaves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stella is last seen on a plane, towards an unknown destination and an unknown future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is goodbye. And I know that\u2019s hard, but I think that there\u2019s certain\u2026 Again, I keep thinking about wanting to do her justice, and do right by her,\u201d Lee told the outlet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd there\u2019s a certain point sometimes with certain characters where the story ends,\u201d the \u201cRussian Doll\u201d actress added. \u201cAnd the story, in my mind, needs to end because of everything that she\u2019s been through, and the person she was when she started on this journey, she was so full of this bright-eyed optimism, and the world that existed a few years ago is gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Pierre and Jennifer Aniston on \u201cThe Morning Show.\u201d  Apple TV+<\/p>\n<p>Greta Lee on \u201cThe Morning Show.\u201d Apple TV<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Aniston on \u201cThe Morning Show.\u201d  Apple TV<\/p>\n<p>AppleTV+ has renewed the show for a fifth season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Emmy-winning drama follows Alex Levy (Aniston) and Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon), two high-powered news anchors at a broadcast network. Stella worked above them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ensemble cast also includes Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Jeremy Irons, Karen Pittman, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/10\/13\/jennifer-aniston-wanted-jon-hamm-on-morning-show-pre-sex-scene\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and Jon Hamm.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stella first joined the show in Season 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston on \u201cThe Morning Show.\u201d Erin Simkin<\/p>\n<p>Greta Lee on \u201cThe Morning Show.\u201d  Apple TV<\/p>\n<p>Lee told People that Stella started out thinking she could \u201cchange the vision of this company.\u201d She was also \u201cso passionate about equity and diversity, and the power of representation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlowly, over time, and I can relate to this, feeling slowly like, \u2018Wait a second, what happened\u2026\u2019 It feels too painful to bear. And when the reality of like, \u2018Oh no, we have to change our tactics, and the same methodology, it\u2019s not working,\u201d the \u201cPast Lives\u201d actress explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s sort of why she has to say goodbye and why things blow up and she\u2019s blowing it up for herself because, really, it\u2019s like, for the first time, she\u2019s free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Showrunner Charlotte Stoudt, meanwhile, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/the-morning-show-greta-lee-stella-exit-interview-1236406529\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Hollywood Reporter <\/a>that filming Lee\u2019s final scene was \u201cemotional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greta Lee on \u201cThe Morning Show.\u201d  Apple TV<\/p>\n<p>Reese Witherspoon on \u201cThe Morning Show.\u201d  Erin Simkin<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust thinking about it, I tear up,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was very hard to leave her, even though it was time for Stella to go rediscover some part of herself, and she couldn\u2019t do that at UBN. She had to get on that plane by herself. When you really are at a crossroads, people can support you, but you can\u2019t have a buddy. You have to figure it out by yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee, for her part, told THR that her farewell was \u201cbittersweet\u201d and \u201csurreal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo in my fantasy, I imagine there are Stellas out there everywhere who are plotting their comeback and who are thinking about the future and who are committed, and can\u2019t not think about it any other way,\u201d she quipped. \u201cI think she\u2019s plotting and scheming and will be back in some way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New episodes of \u201cThe Morning Show\u201d premiere weekly on Wednesdays through Nov. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She\u2019s saying goodbye to UBA-NBN. \u201cThe Morning Show\u201d is having a\u00a0cast shakeup, as a major star is exiting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":324331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[4964,171,14273,30940,399,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-324330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-apple-tv","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jennifer-aniston","11":"tag-reese-witherspoon","12":"tag-television","13":"tag-tv","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115418911787160239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}