Reneé Rapp Leaving ‘Sex Lives Of College Girls’: Everything We Know About Her Exit

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Image Credit: Max Reneé Rapp is leaving The Sex Lives of College Girls. She volition reprise her relation arsenic Leighton for a “handful” of play 3 episodes. Reneé has released a connection astir her departure.

Our beloved halfway 4 astatine Essex College is going to go a trio. The Sex Lives of College Girls fandom was stunned to larn that Reneé Rapp volition beryllium exiting successful the upcoming 3rd season. The histrion has played Leighton Murray, the fierce, sassy, and precise affluent bequest pupil from New York City, since the show’s 2021 debut. The amusement marked her archetypal onscreen TV role.

So, wherefore is Reneé leaving The Sex Lives of College Girls? Will her communicative get a due wrap-up successful play 3? HollywoodLife is breaking down what we cognize astir Reneé’s exit.

Reneé Rapp arsenic Leighton successful ‘The Sex Lives of College Girls.’ (Max)

Is Reneé Rapp Leaving Sex Lives Of College Girls?

Yes, Reneé is leaving The Sex Lives of College Girls in play 3, HollywoodLife tin confirm. She volition nary longer beryllium a bid regular successful play 3. However, she volition recur successful the 3rd season. Deadline was the archetypal to study the quality connected July 10.

Will Reneé Rapp Be In Sex Lives Of College Girls Season 3?

Reneé is expected to look successful a fistful of episodes earlier leaving the show. This volition springiness the amusement capable to constitute retired Leighton’s exit from Essex College. At the extremity of play 2, Leighton discontinue the Kappa sorority and reunited with Alicia. Leighton’s brother, Nico, was expelled up of play 2 and transferred to Cornell offscreen aft Gavin Leatherwood near the series.

Reneé Rapp with her ‘Sex Lives of College Girls’ co-stars. (Max)

The deed Max Original bid — besides starring Pauline Chalamet, Amrit Kaur, and Alyah Chanelle Scott — was renewed for play 3 backmost successful December 2022, but the 3rd play has not been filmed yet. Hollywood has been successful the midst of a writers’ strike since May 2023, truthful the show’s filming docket has apt been impacted by that.

Just aft play 2 aired, Reneé opened up astir Leighton’s aboriginal and wherever she’d similar to spot the quality spell moving guardant successful play 3. “I mean, if it was up to me, she would extremity up being a songwriter. She would survey overseas successful France, would autumn successful emotion with immoderate French girl, and she would go a popular star,” the histrion told AltPress. “Then, she would retire, person kids, determination to Nantucket, and bash thing weird and cute. That being said, cipher listens to my ideas. I don’t know.”

Why Is Reneé Rapp Leaving The Sex Lives Of College Girls?

The rising prima is booked and engaged with her burgeoning acting and euphony career. Reneé posted connected her Instagram Story connected July 10 aft the quality broke of her upcoming departure.

Reneé Rapp’s connection astir leaving ‘Sex Lives of College Girls.’ (Max)

“College Girls moved maine retired to LA and introduced maine to immoderate of my favourite people,” her connection began. “2 [Two] and a fractional years aboriginal — it’s fixed maine y’all and this community. Thank u Mindy [Kaling], Justin [Noble] and everyone astatine Max for believing successful me. A batch of queer enactment gets belittled — but playing Leighton has changed my life. I emotion who I americium 10x much than I did earlier knowing her. I anticipation she gave y’all a small spot of that too. She’s specified a tiny portion of practice but adjacent the tiny parts count. I wouldn’t beryllium fractional the idiosyncratic I americium without her and y’all. I emotion that b***h much than you know. I’m truthful excited for this play and I can’t hold for you to spot what we person coming for her and the girls.”

The singer/actress is acceptable to spell connected her Snow Hard Feelings Tour starting successful September 2023. The circuit volition instrumentality her each crossed the United States and Europe done March 2024, truthful her docket is jam-packed. Her debut album, Snow Angel, volition beryllium released connected August 18, 2023. She dropped her stellar debut EP, Everything to Everyone, successful November 2022.

“I’m trying to find a work/life balance. I don’t [have one] astatine present, and I astir apt won’t for a while. But I’m trying to beryllium an EGOT, truthful I’m bushed — but it’s each good,” she told Us Weekly astir her engaged docket backmost successful April 2023.

Reneé Rapp successful play 2. (Max)

Following the announcement of her exit, Page Six claimed that Reneé reportedly “wanted to permission the amusement to circuit and they’re presently moving retired the champion originative solution for her departure, but she announced the circuit without having clearance from the show.”

Reneé is besides reprising her relation arsenic Regina George successful the movie adaptation of Mean Girls: The Musical. She made her Broadway debut arsenic the iconic character successful 2019. She stars alongside Angourie Rice, Auli’i Cravalho, Bebe Wood, Christopher Briney, Tina Fey, Jaquel Spivey, Jon Hamm, and much successful the film. Production took spot from March to April 2023. Mean Girls: The Musical does not person a merchandise day yet, but it volition premiere connected Paramount+.

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