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A day after Hallmark Channel cut ties with Lori Loughlin, the actress looks to be out of Netflix's Fuller House as well.
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00:00Fuller House will be slightly less full when it returns for its fifth and final season
00:04on Netflix because it seems that Aunt Becky is out. Following Lori Loughlin's indictment
00:09in a nationwide college admissions bribery case, the Hallmark Channel kept ties with
00:12the actress and now it looks as though Netflix is following suit. Loughlin has had a
00:16recurring part on Fuller House since it launched on the streamer in 2016, reprising
00:20her role from the 1987 to 1995 ABC sitcom, Full House. Loughlin appeared in 13 of the
00:26shows 57 episodes through season four. Filming for the final season hasn't started yet and
00:31sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that production won't be impacted by Loughlin's legal
00:35issues as there are no current plans for her to return. Netflix and Warner Horizon
00:39television, which produces Fuller House, declined to comment. Loughlin was taken into
00:43custody Wednesday after being named in the indictments, which alleged she and her
00:46husband paid half a million dollars to a college prep business run by William Rick
00:50Singer to ensure their daughters would be admitted to the University of Southern
00:53California. Others named in the case include Hollywood investor Bill McLashan,
00:57actress Felicity Huffman and administrators and athletic coaches at USC,
01:01Stanford, Yale and the University of Texas. Following the indictment, Hallmark Channel
01:06said it was ending its relationship with Loughlin, a regular on the cablis series
01:09When Calls the Heart and star of its garage sale Mysteries Movies. Sunday's episode of
01:14When Calls the Heart, which is in its sixth season, has been pulled from the schedule,
01:17while Hallmark says it's evaluating all creative options regarding the show's future.
01:21To read more on this story, head to THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.
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