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10-06-2025
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Law & Order: SVU's Ice-T Says He Was ‘Blindsided' by Kelli Giddish's Departure, Credits Fans With Bringing Her Back Full-Time in Season 27
Law & Order: SVU's Rollins and Tutuola were partners on the police force, and their portrayers are pals off-screen. So count series vet Ice-T among those eagerly awaiting Kelli Giddish's full-time return to the procedural this fall. 'Kelli is dope. Me and her were teammates and partners,' Ice-T told TVLine Tuesday at Raising Cane's in New York City's Times Square. The rapper/actor was there to celebrate National Iced Tea Day (get it?!) in collaboration with the restaurant chain. More from TVLine Who's Your Law & Orderverse Dream Team? Choose Your Perfect Squad And Just Like That EPs Tell All About the Hot New Gardener in Carrie's Life: 'That's Like an Aphrodisiac' Criminal Minds Video: As JJ Seeks Help, Aimee Garcia Previews 'Intimate' Scenes With a 'Magical' A.J. Cook He recalled that when Giddish started the show in Season 13, just after original cast member Chris Meloni departed as Det. Stabler, 'I fell in love with Kelli as a person. She's just a sweetheart.' Giddish's exit as a series regular in December 2022, after her character and Peter Scanavino's Dominick 'Sonny' Carisi Jr. got hitched in a courthouse wedding, was a surprise, he added. 'No one really expected her to leave the show. We got blindsided by that. But the fans said they wanted to see Kelli back, so she's coming back.' Giddish has recurred on the show in the past few seasons, which is how we know Rollins is now a sergeant working with the New York Police Department's Intelligence Unit. The character most recently showed up in Season 26 to assist SVU on a kidnapping case. Giddish's reinstatement as a regular made series star Mariska Hargitay 'ecstatic,' she recently said. 'She is a formidable actress and an incredibly creative partner and has been such a joy and huge part of the fabric of SVU,' Hargitay added. 'I love her, and I love acting with her and co-creating with her, and it feels like home with her.' NBC renewed SVU for Season 27 in May. The upcoming season will find the procedural under the supervision of a new showrunner, Michele Fazekas (Gen V) and down two squad members: Octavio Pisano and Juliana Aidén Martinez won't return as Det. Joe Velasco and Det. Kate Silva, respectively. Press PLAY on the video above to hear Ice-T get excited about Giddish's increased presence in the new season, then hit the comments with your thoughts! Best of TVLine Yellowjackets' Tawny Cypress Talks Episode 4's Tai/Van Reunion: 'We're All Worried About Taissa' Vampire Diaries Turns 10: How Real-Life Plot Twists Shaped Everything From the Love Triangle to the Final Death Vampire Diaries' Biggest Twists Revisited (and Explained)
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19-05-2025
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Law & Order: SVU's Mariska Hargitay Is ‘Ecstatic' Over Kelli Giddish's Full-Time Return to the Show
Talk about squad goals. Law & Order: SVU star and executive producer Mariska Hargitay is 'ecstatic' about Kelli Giddish's full-time return to the procedural, she recently told our sister site Deadline. More from TVLine Chicago Med EP: Viewers 'Should Definitely Be Questioning' Who Is Hannah's Baby Daddy Suits LA Ends With Another Firm Shake-Up, a Hook-Up and a Love Triangle - Were You Satisfied? Joe Biden Diagnosed With 'Aggressive Form' of Prostate Cancer Giddish's just-announced reinstatement as series regular on the NBC series 'is so purely joyful to me,' Hargitay added. 'She is a formidable actress and an incredibly creative partner and has been such a joy and huge part of the fabric of SVU. I love her, and I love acting with her and co-creating with her, and it feels like home with her. So I am ecstatic about her return.' Giddish left SVU as a series regular in December 2022 but has been a recurring guest star since then. Her most recent appearance took place in Episode 20 of the just-wrapped Season 26, when Rollins — now a sergeant working with the New York Police Department's Intelligence Unit — was brought in to assist SVU on a kidnapping case. Law & Order: SVU Season 27: Everything We Know So Far View List Hargitay has made no secret of the fact that she fought Giddish's ouster in 2022 and that she wanted to bring her back in more than a recurring capacity. 'Kelli is my favorite actor to work with. Kelli is my heart,' Hargitay said in a May 2024 interview with our sister site Variety. 'It's a sore subject. I have a lot of say on the show… but I didn't have enough there.' She added: 'I don't like not being listened to, especially when I'm right… That relationship was one of the most powerful relationships in television because you saw these two badass women, so flawed and so there for each other.' Hargitay spoke with Deadline at the Cannes Film Festival, where she was promoting My Mom Jayne, a documentary about Hargitay's mother/film star Jayne Mansfield. The film marks Hargitay's cinematic directorial debut; she has previously helmed nine SVU episodes. Best of TVLine Yellowjackets Mysteries: An Up-to-Date List of the Series' Biggest Questions (and Answers?) The Emmys' Most Memorable Moments: Laughter, Tears, Historical Wins, 'The Big One' and More 'Missing' Shows, Found! The Latest on Severance, Holey Moley, Poker Face, YOU, Primo, Transplant and 25+ Others
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15-05-2025
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Law & Order: SVU Is Bringing Kelli Giddish Back as a Series Regular
Our long, 'Rollisi'-related nightmare is over: Kelli Giddish is returning to Law & Order: SVU full-time, TVLine has confirmed. Giddish will be back on the NBC procedural as a series regular in Season 27. Our sister site Deadline first reported the news. More from TVLine Meet the Buffy Reboot's New Slayer: Ryan Kiera Armstrong to Play The Chosen One Opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar The Voice Season 27 Finale Is Upon Us: Who Will Win... and Who Should? Chicago Med Very Nonchalantly Brings Back [Spoiler] After 5 Seasons - Plus, Hannah Gets Shocking News! Giddish left SVU as a series regular in December 2022 but has returned several times since then. In Season 26, which comes to a close tonight, so far she has shown up in five episodes; Episode 20 was the latest. At times, it felt as though the show struggled with how to reconcile Rollins' heightened importance in the show's history with the reality of Giddish's limited stints. Series star/executive producer Mariska Hargitay has gone on record saying that she fought Giddish's ouster in 2022 and that she wanted to bring her back in more than a recurring capacity. 'Kelli is my favorite actor to work with. Kelli is my heart,' Hargitay said in a May 2024 interview with our sister site Variety. 'It's a sore subject. I have a lot of say on the show [as the star and an executive producer since Season 15], but I didn't have enough there.' Hear Us Out: Law & Order: SVU and Organized Crime Should Be One Show View List She added: 'I don't like not being listened to, especially when I'm right… That relationship was one of the most powerful relationships in television because you saw these two badass women, so flawed and so there for each other.' Season 26 found Giddish's character promoted to sergeant and taking on a new role in the New York Police Department's Intelligence Unit. Rollins' new job often required travel, which explained her absences from both the police department and her home life with husband, Assistant District Attorney Dominick 'Sonny' Carisi, and their children. Do you have thoughts on Giddish's full-time return? Hit the comments with your thoughts! Best of TVLine Yellowjackets Mysteries: An Up-to-Date List of the Series' Biggest Questions (and Answers?) The Emmys' Most Memorable Moments: Laughter, Tears, Historical Wins, 'The Big One' and More 'Missing' Shows, Found! The Latest on Severance, Holey Moley, Poker Face, YOU, Primo, Transplant and 25+ Others
