“Recently, we were made aware of allegations of inappropriate conduct by Fred Savage, and as is policy, an investigation was launched,” it learn. “Upon its completion, the decision was made to terminate his employment as an executive producer and director of ‘The Wonder Years.’ ”
Representatives for Savage didn’t instantly reply Saturday to a request for remark from The Post.
Savage grew to become identified for his position within the authentic “The Wonder Years” sequence as Kevin Arnold, a teenage boy studying about life within the late Sixties and early Seventies in middle-class suburbia. Savage went on to direct TV sequence corresponding to “Modern Family” and produce episodes for exhibits corresponding to “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”
Most not too long ago, he was directing and producing the “The Wonder Years” reboot, which began airing on ABC final fall. It stars Elisha “EJ” Williams as Dean Williams, a younger Black boy rising up in a middle-class household in Montgomery, Ala., throughout the identical time interval as the unique sequence.
Initially, Savage didn’t comply with have a hand within the new present.
“I had to kind of get over myself a bit and realize that we were telling a new story,” he advised the Hollywood Reporter.
The particulars of the current allegations in opposition to Savage weren’t instantly identified, however Savage has confronted different allegations of misconduct prior to now. In 1993, a former costume designer on the set of “The Wonder Years” filed a sexual harassment lawsuit in opposition to then-16-year-old Savage and his co-star Jason Hervey, who performed Wayne Arnold, claiming the 2 bodily and verbally harassed her, the Los Angeles Times reported on the time.
Savage denied these accusations and the lawsuit was settled out of courtroom.
In 2018, a dressing up designer from Fox’s “The Grinder” sued Savage and Fox for assault, discrimination and gender harassment, claiming Savage as soon as hit her arm whereas she was dusting his swimsuit on set and that he created a poisonous work setting for ladies. The Hollywood Reporter reported on the time that after an investigation, Fox stated it discovered no proof of wrongdoing and vowed to “vigorously defend” him in opposition to the claims.
Savage isn’t the primary superstar to be terminated from a reboot sequence. Not lengthy after the favored sitcom sequence “Roseanne” was revived in 2018, it was canceled, and its star, Roseanne Barr, was fired over a racist tweet evaluating Valerie Jarrett, a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama, to an ape. A derivative sequence with out Barr, “The Conners,” was launched, and the present has run for 4 consecutive seasons.