{"id":874453,"date":"2026-10-07T22:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T22:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/874453\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T22:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T22:52:08","slug":"ted-lasso-team-hoped-to-bring-anthony-head-back-in-season-4-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/874453\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Ted Lasso’ Team Hoped To Bring Anthony Head Back In Season 4 Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tApple TV\u2019s Ted Lasso<\/a> referenced Anthony Head<\/a>\u2018s villainous Rupert Mannion character a few times in Season 4 and paid tribute to the actor, who died June 1 at the age of 72<\/a>, with an \u201cIn Memoriam\u201d card in Episode 409<\/a>. But there could\u2019ve been more, according to Ted Lasso co-creator, executive producer and star Brendan Hunt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe had an outside hope of bringing him back in the last episode,\u201d he said about possibly featuring Head in the Season 4 finale<\/a>, which he co-wrote with fellow Ted Lasso co-creator, executive producer and star Jason Sudeikis. \u201cWe were told that that was not going to be possible. So yeah, we had an idea for a little thing but it was not going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHead\u2019s health issues prior to his death from pneumonia complications have not been made public.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI assumed he would be in this last [season], and didn\u2019t know, as I think very few people knew, he was ill and just couldn\u2019t do it,\u201d Annette Badland, who played Mae on the show, told Deadline last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tRupert\u2019s Season 4 story arc kicked off in episode 8 when was suspected of secretly buying out AFC Richmond shares in an attempt to regain control over the football club from his ex-wife Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham). By the end of episode 9, it was revealed that the culprit is Rebecca\u2019s supposed ally and backer of the Richmond women\u2019s team, Zelda (Tracey Ullman).<\/p>\n

\n\tHead likely would\u2019ve appeared in the finale\u2019s shareholders meeting showdown scene. <\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Ted Lasso\u2019 Season 4 Finale Recap: The Last Match Of The Season & A Shareholders\u2019 Showdown<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tSince Season 4 wrapped production ahead of Head\u2019s death, will his character Rupert also pass away on Ted Lasso in Season 5 per storied TV tradition? (Ted Lasso has not been renewed yet, but that is expected shortly.)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d Hunt said. \u201cI mean, he didn\u2019t pass until after we shot everything, so we\u2019ll have to figure that out when and if we get the chance to reconvene.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple TV\u2019s Ted Lasso referenced Anthony Head\u2018s villainous Rupert Mannion character a few times in Season 4 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[298329,23536,88,13022],"class_list":["post-874453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-anthony-head","tag-brendan-hunt","tag-entertainment","tag-ted-lasso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}