Actor Jussie Smollett is formally returning to the FOX community, the place he’ll star in an upcoming competitors present in his first look on the community since his infamously alleged staged assault.
What’s Jussie Smollett showing in?
Smollett can be certainly one of 18 celebrities showing on the present Particular Forces: World’s Hardest Take a look at, which begins airing on September 25, 2025. The sequence will see celebrities taking up numerous challenges that mirror that of varied army particular forces coaching.
Alongside Smollett, Particular Forces: World’s Hardest Take a look at may also function Kody Brown (Sister Wives), Brittany Cartwright (The Valley), Randall Cobb (former NFL participant), Eric Decker (former NFL participant), Jesse James Decker (nation music star), Andrew East (former NFL participant), Shawn Johnson East (gold medal Olympian), Mark Estes (web character), Gia Giudice and Teresa Giudice (The Actual Housewives of New Jersey), Chanel Iman (mannequin), Brianna LaPaglia (web character), Johnny Manziel (former NFL participant), Eva Marcille (mannequin and actress), Ravi V. Patel (Animal Management), Christie Pearce Rampone (World Cup profitable soccer participant), and Nick Younger (former NBA participant).
Smollett beforehand starred on Fox’s music drama Empire for 5 years, from 2015-19. Throughout his breakout function as Jamal Lyon, Smollett was infamously concerned in an incident wherein he claimed that two Black males attacked him and yelled homophobic slurs at him in Chicago. Afterward, the 2 males claimed that Smollett had truly paid them to stage the assault, and Smollett was subsequently charged with submitting a false police report.
Fees have been initially dropped, and Smollett ended up paying a high quality and doing group service. Nevertheless, in 2020, he was re-indicted by a particular prosecutor, and convicted of 5 counts of felony disorderly conduct associated to submitting false experiences in 2021. He then served six days in jail earlier than being launched. In 2024, the Illinois Supreme Courtroom overturned his conviction, ruling that the second set of fees violated Smollett’s due course of rights.
For his half, Smollett maintains that he by no means staged the assault and didn’t have any hand in it taking place. For the reason that incident, Smollett has not appeared in lots of tasks, however would be the focus of an upcoming documentary, The Reality About Jussie Smollett?, that premieres on August 22, 2025, on Netflix.