Empire star Jussie Smollett is returning to Fox for a new reality show, over six years after he was accused of staging a hate crime, per The Hollywood Reporter. Smollett will join the cast of Fox’s reality show Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, where celebrities push themselves to complete challenges based on military training. This upcoming season, Smollett will be one of 18 celebrities to participate. The actor rose to fame for his role as Jamal Lyon on Empire, which he starred in from 2015 to 2019. Smollett, who is gay, was written off the series after he appeared to have staged a hate crime against himself in 2019. After he claimed to have suffered a racist and homophobic attack by two men who poured a chemical on him and put a noose around his neck, police alleged that the men in
Jussie Smollett to Make TV Return Six Years After Allegedly Faking Hate Crime

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