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“Jussie will NOT be returning to ‘Empire,’” Daniels tweeted in response to an article in Variety citing sources who said the show intended to bring back Smollett and his character Jamal for episodes leading up to the series finale.

Daniels said the Variety story was “not factual.”

Last month, Fox announced that the show’s sixth season, premiering this fall, will be its last.

Fox representatives said in April that Smollett’s representatives had negotiated a contract extension for the actor to potentially reappear on the show. But “at this time there are no plans for the character of Jamal to return to ‘Empire,’” the network said.