10 Actors Who Shockingly Quit TV Shows After The First Season
5. Chevy Chase - SNL
Speaking of incredibly popular shows, you would be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t at one time or another heard of Saturday Night Live. Actor/comedian Chevy Chase first rose to fame in the seventies with his appearance on the very first season of SNL.
In the years since, SNL has changed and evolved a hell of a lot - but the early days are still to thank for much of the show’s fame and acclaim. There has been a lot of discussion around what caused Chase to leave SNL so abruptly in the first season, with some people saying that difficult relationships with other cast members and bad on-set behaviour were to blame.
The real reason, Chase reveals in his biography, is much simpler. He explains that he left the show because he was deeply in love with a girl who refused to move from California, leaving him unable to pursue certain avenues of his career. The girl in question was Jacqueline Carlin, and they got married pretty soon after his departure.
Unfortunately, they also got divorced pretty quickly. Maybe he would’ve been better off keeping at the show and going back to visit her at the weekends...