The slave-turned-gladiator has met a foe he just can’t shake.
Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand will be without its star Andy Whitfield for the second season. He is leaving the show to undergo cancer treatments in what appears to be a recurrence of his disease.
“It’s with a deep sense of disappointment that I must step aside from such an exceptional project as Spartacus and all the wonderful people involved,” Whitfield said in a statement. “It seems that it is time for myself and my family to embark on another extraordinary journey.”
Whitfield was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma last March. The cancer had appeared to be in remission until this recent news.
There’s no word yet on the future of Spartacus: Blood and Sand, or Whitfield’s place in it.
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