{"id":27041,"date":"2025-10-09T19:09:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=27041"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:09:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:09:37","slug":"matlock-actor-david-del-rio-fired-from-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=27041","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Matlock\u2019 Actor David Del Rio Fired From Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCBS\u2019 <em>Matlock<\/em> has fired one of its series regulars after an allegation of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDavid Del Rio, who plays attorney Billy Martinez on the legal drama, was let go after an incident involving him and a female member of the show\u2019s cast, sources confirm to <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. CBS Studios, which produces <em>Matlock<\/em>, investigated the allegation right away. It resulted in Del Rio being let go from the show last week, at which point he was escorted off the show\u2019s set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCBS Studios declined comment on the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMore to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS\u2019 Matlock has fired one of its series regulars after an allegation of sexual assault. David Del Rio, who plays attorney Billy Martinez on the legal drama, was let go after an incident involving him and a female member of the show\u2019s cast, sources confirm to The Hollywood Reporter. CBS Studios, which produces Matlock, investigated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1421,999,4977,10474,16183,173,1266],"class_list":{"0":"post-27041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-actor","9":"tag-david","10":"tag-del","11":"tag-fired","12":"tag-matlock","13":"tag-rio","14":"tag-series"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}