Gage Golightly (Erica) not returning for Teen Wolf Season 3

Jan, 08, 2013 | AUTHOR: Asa Hawks; | Related : Gage Golightly, Teen Wolf

Fans of MTV’s breakout supernatural scripted series Teen Wolf have another character that won’t be returning for Season 3 when it airs this summer. In addition to the hunky Colton Haynes departing (SEASON 2 SPOILER ALERT) after his character Jackson Whittemore was killed off in last season’s finale, the show will also be diminished in babeness because Gage Golightly (who plays sexy blonde Erica) will not be back either.

There were rumors swirling about Golightly’s departure for some time, and Teen Wolf Wikia admin Paul.rea had had enough. He contacted Golightly’s agent asking for an interview and received this response from her manager:

“Hi Paul –

Kim Callahan here, Gage’s manager.

Gage isn’t doing any press right now and is no longer on TEEN WOLF series either so not doing any press or interviews for the show.

Thanks for reaching out though!

Kim”

That sounds pretty definitive! Seemingly confirming the news was Golightly’s (former?) co-star Stephen Lunsford, who was asked this question on his Tumblr blog: “you wouldn’t happen to know anything about Gage not coming back for TW this season, would you? bc wow I’m sad.” To which Lunsford responded by writing, “I know she isn’t, but I thought that was old news.”

A commenter with the user name TheUnknownVoiceWithReason seemed to sum up male Teen Wolf fan perspective perfectly:

This is freakin crazy man! I’m losing all the characters I just got interested in. Every big speculation is totally blown now. Those speculations were “What’s going to happen to Boyd and Erica” and “What’s next for Jackson now that he’s a werewolf?” Both question are GONE as in GONE GONE. And she was sooooo hot! I mean we still have Lydia, but Erica was some hot stuff I’m just saying! SMH.

Meanwhile, the the cast and crew of Teen Wolf that are returning for Season 3 began shooting in December and shared this Teen Wolf Season 3 preview video:

“Welcome to Season 3 of Teen Wolf, first day of filming! Merry Christmas,” says Tyler Posey at the beginning of the clip. Joining Posey in the beginning are co-stars Dylan O’Brien and Tyler Hoechlin. Later we get to see Miss California 2007 Meagan Tandy as well as new Teen Wolf cast members Charlie Carver and Max Carver, who will be playing twin brothers Ethan and Aiden

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Anon

Jackson was not killed off in the S2 finale, he became a werewolf with blue eyes. Are. You. Serious. Do you even watch the show?
- K
  
  From the perspective of all on the outside, he was. He died on the field. Him coming back to life stronger and better than ever would be hard to explain to his classmates, wouldn’t it? They’ll probably explain it as he left town to start somewhere with a new identity or something. It would make sense.
  - WrittenSins
    
    Never thought of that, but now that you mention it, that would be the perfect reason to cover Jackson’s leaving. Still, only downfall is how will his parents work into this? Will they be told the truth about werewolves? Or left to grieve a son they believe dead while Jackson disappears? I really can’t wait to see where Jeff takes this.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Matthew-Markovich/1252137194 Matthew Markovich

Won’t miss Jackson but Erica? Oh my what are they thinking!?! Unless she wanted to leave there is no reason for her to be gone. Erica was the most interesting character on the show. WHY??? There has to be a reason WHY!
- selits
  
  lol most interesting character on the show is definitely a stretch; jackson is almost certainly more important to the show than erica was––doesn’t matter how much you hated his character, he created more ties, he was the captain of the lacrosse team, not to mention jackson/lydia.
WrittenSins

I’m interested in seeing how Jeff is going to handle both the loss of Erica and Jackson. Guess he could always go with the alpha pack killing Erica at the end of season two, maybe letting Boyd go to run back and deliver the message to Derek — or something along those lines. Jackson is going to be the hardest to cover though, since he was such a huge part of season 2 (I mean he just became a werewolf for crying out loud!).