{"id":484384,"date":"2026-01-01T09:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/484384\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T09:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:01:10","slug":"the-rookie-season-8-cast-shakeup-1-star-seemingly-exits-several-confirmed-to-return-eg-nathan-fillion-slideshow-television-the-rookie-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/484384\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Rookie\u2019 Season 8 Cast Shakeup: 1 Star Seemingly Exits, Several Confirmed to Return! | EG, Nathan Fillion, Slideshow, Television, The Rookie | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos | Just Jared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"page-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/12\/31\/the-rookie-season-8-cast-shakeup-1-star-seemingly-exits-several-confirmed-to-return\/\" alt=\"&#039;The Rookie&#039; Season 8 Cast Shakeup: 1 Star Seemingly Exits, Several Confirmed to Return!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00ab First<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/12\/31\/the-rookie-season-8-cast-shakeup-1-star-seemingly-exits-several-confirmed-to-return\/5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00ab Previous <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/12\/31\/the-rookie-season-8-cast-shakeup-1-star-seemingly-exits-several-confirmed-to-return\/7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/rookie-join2.jpg\" alt=\"Lisseth Chavez\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 1.1em\">Lisseth Chavez as Celina Juarez \u2013 Expected to Return!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lisseth Chavez<\/strong> is expected to be back.<\/p>\n<p>Showrunner <strong>Alexi Hawley<\/strong> told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Us Weekly<\/a> about Celina and Rodge\u2019s future story, \u201cI think they\u2019re both young, and so I don\u2019t know that we need to define everything [and it] doesn\u2019t have to turn into a relationship. I\u2019m not 100 percent sure where it goes, but I do think that ultimately we are very aware that we have some very strong relationships on the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/deric-return.jpg\" alt=\"Deric Augustine\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 1.1em\">Deric Augustine \u2013 Upped to Series Regular!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Deric Augustine<\/strong>\u2018s episode count has changed for the better: he will be back in a larger role in season 8!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deric<\/strong> joined the show in the seventh season as a recurring character and he\u2019ll becoming a series regular in season eight, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/04\/deric-augustine-series-regular-abc-the-rookie-1236374095\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/04\/deric-augustine-series-regular-abc-the-rookie-1236374095\/&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deadline<\/a>. He plays Miles Penn, and only appeared in 15 episodes in season 7. It looks like he\u2019ll be in every episode in season 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"page-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/12\/31\/the-rookie-season-8-cast-shakeup-1-star-seemingly-exits-several-confirmed-to-return\/\" alt=\"&#039;The Rookie&#039; Season 8 Cast Shakeup: 1 Star Seemingly Exits, Several Confirmed to Return!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00ab First<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/12\/31\/the-rookie-season-8-cast-shakeup-1-star-seemingly-exits-several-confirmed-to-return\/5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00ab Previous <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/12\/31\/the-rookie-season-8-cast-shakeup-1-star-seemingly-exits-several-confirmed-to-return\/7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00ab First\u00ab Previous Continue \u00bb Lisseth Chavez as Celina Juarez \u2013 Expected to Return! Lisseth Chavez is expected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":484385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[171,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-484384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115819032491932439","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484384","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=484384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}