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And Just Like That’s Che Diaz gave us so much in their two-season run. Their legacy will forever and always be that NSFWW scene with Miranda in Carrie’s kitchen—there’s nothing quite as character-defining as pleasuring your colleague’s married best friend while they recover from hip surgery and urinate in a Snapple bottle the next room over!
Yet, new reports have emerged supposedly confirming that Che, and in turn, the actor who plays them, Sara Ramírez, won’t return for the upcoming third season. The fictional polarising comedian was allegedly axed after being “on the chopping block since last season”. A source claiming to be close to production told the Daily Mail that Che, as a character, “held no value anymore” and was “annoying”.
We here at GRAZIA contend that Che wasn’t irritating just suffered a case of bad writing. Though for their crimes against Miranda (read: constant humiliation) and knack for getting away with it scot-free, perhaps they do deserve to spend some time in TV purgatory.
Ramírez was fired because Che brought nothing to the show anymore,” the insider continued. “They were on the chopping block since last season,” they said. “After Che split with Miranda, the character really held no value anymore, and fans found them annoying. The storyline as a struggling comedian was a waste of airtime, and Sara knew it.”
Let us not be too rash here—do we forget that without Che Diaz, we would’ve never had Carrie’s iconic kitten, Shoe?
“Sara needs to accept that this is not Grey’s Anatomy, and her [sic] character was not a pivotal part of the storyline,” the source further claimed. The showrunners nor HBO have spoken on the allegations of Che’s dismissal.
Should the reports be true, we’ll certainly miss seeing Che light up a joint in the most inappropriate of places—Big’s funeral, the workplace, post-orgasm—and attempt to revive their comedy career. Because if a show about contemporary New York is missing anything, it’s biblically accurate portrayals of the stand-up scene.
