Subscribe
Hellobeautiful Featured Video
CLOSE

This season of “Scandal” has been reduced to 18 episode due to Kerry Washington’s new bun in the oven.

According to reports, ABC shortened the current season by four episodes because “it’s getting hard to hide the pregnancy in loose-fitting clothes for the normally super stylish and elegant Olivia Pope.”

MUST READ: CONFIRMED: Kerry Washington IS Pregnant!

MUST READ: Kerry Washington Brings Her Baby Bump To ‘Ellen’ & Dishes On ‘Scandal’ Storylines

“The episode reduction would probably be an unexpected but welcome relief for Scandal‘s writers as it is extremely hard to sustain a dense serialized drama like Scandal for a 22-episode season,” Deadline reports. And seeing how Pope is the star of the series, cutting her workload and on-camera time would  be untrue to the story.

Sorry, gladiators!

Kerry is reportedly due in the spring.

LIKE HelloBeautiful On Facebook To Keep Up With The Latest Style & Beauty Trends

RELATED STORIES

‘Lucky’ Editor In Chief Defends Kerry Washington Cover: ‘Conversation Is A Good Thing’

Kerry Washington Stays Winning! Actress Shines On Cover Of People Magazine

Check Out This Gallery

10 Style Tips From Kerry Washington
0 photos

For 2024’s iteration of MadameNoire and HelloBeautiful’s annual series Women to Know, we knew we wanted to celebrate the people who help make the joys of film and television possible. To create art is to create magic. This year, we spotlight Hollywood Executive’s changing the face of cinema.