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Billy Martinez won’t be returning to Jacobson Moore.<\/span><\/p>\n More than four months after <\/span>David Del Rio<\/strong> was fired from <\/a><\/span>Matlock<\/span><\/a> <\/a>amid sexual assault allegations, the <\/span>Kathy Bates<\/strong>-led series addressed his exit with a joke about layoffs at the law firm in the season two midseason premiere.<\/span><\/p>\n As staff at Jacobson Moore prepare to merge with Lamar and Olson, the latter’s head of personnel Gwen Easton (<\/span>Sarah Wright-Olsen<\/strong>)\u2014who Sarah Franklin (<\/span>Leah Lewis<\/strong>) succinctly nicknamed Layoff Barbie\u2014introduced herself to Sarah and Matty Matlock (Bates) in episode nine.<\/span><\/p>\n “Trying to get a sense of the who’s who and the what’s what as we combine into one lean, mean legal machine,” she told the pair in the Feb. 26 episode. “I promise I am not here to fire anyone. I just make recommendations based on observable redundancies.”<\/span><\/p>\n When she asked about Billy Martinez’s whereabouts, Sarah quickly explained, “Out sick. Very, very sick. Vomiting, and he\u2014,” before Matty interjected, “And we’ve got him covered.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Billy Martinez won’t be returning to Jacobson Moore. More than four months after David Del Rio was fired from Matlock amid sexual assault allegations, the Kathy Bates-led series addressed his exit with a joke about layoffs at the law firm in the season two midseason premiere. As staff at Jacobson Moore prepare to merge with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2303246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2303245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Matlock-on-David-Del-Rio-Exit-Midseason-Premiere.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303247,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303245\/revisions\/2303247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2303246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}