\n\t\t\t\t\tNZ soap star reveals he had no idea his last day of filming was just that.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Shortland Street star Ben Barrington has revealed he was let go by producers after a decade as Dr. Drew McCaskill, with his last episode screening in April.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know it was my final day. It was like any other,\u201d Barrington has told podcast Fork\u2019s Sake.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just one of those things. You find out one day that you don\u2019t work there any more.\u201d<\/p>\n
Barrington joined the Kiwi soap in 2015 as cosmetic surgeon, Drew McCaskill, who dabbles in general surgery.<\/p>\n
In 2024 he told TV Tonight, \u201cHe\u2019s really like, egotistical and always sort of had something to prove.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been involved in those kinds of storylines where I\u2019m ostensibly very alpha and high status. But it\u2019s a recurring theme that I get these ideas to outdo someone, to one up somebody, and then that blows up in my face somehow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked if being dumped was \u2018ruthless\u2019, he replied, \u201cRuthless is one way to put it.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cI ended up going back a few months later and doing an exit. They went, \u2018we actually can\u2019t have your character just disappear in a puff of smoke.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ soap star reveals he had no idea his last day of filming was just that. Shortland Street…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-776223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}