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As a big plotline wrapped up<\/a> this week on\u00a0Beyond the Gates<\/a>, <\/em>the sophomore sudser also had to bid adieu to one of its original stars. In fact, just as gunshots rang out and Detective Jacob Hawthorne (Jibre Hordges<\/strong>) found his life in danger, another person took a bullet for him. Who’s the gunshot victim, and what happened to them?<\/p>\n Spoiler alert! It’s former firefighter Derek (Ben Gavin<\/strong><\/a>)…and he was pronounced dead at the hospital! Gavin spoke to TV Insider<\/a><\/em>about finding out the news his character was kicking the bucket and why it made sense for Derek to be the one to die.<\/p>\n The actor found out the news that Derek was being written off at the end of 2025. He was surprised, to say the least, but Gavin explained that The Powers That Be made it clear to him that not just any character could die; it had to be someone that viewers had invested time in and cared about.<\/p>\n Cue Derek, who, although he’s an OG character, doesn’t currently have a job (he’s a retired firefighter), no parents on the canvas, and no family. Gavin said that he suspected such a lack of immediate connections could have made Derek expendable; it’s also worth noting the character currently had no significant other (after his relationship with Ashley<\/a> [Jen Jacob<\/strong>] collapsed). However, Gavin stressed that he enjoyed how Derek was fleshed out in the second season of BTG<\/em>, and that Derek’s not a pushover any longer.<\/p>\n How did he find out he was exiting the soap? EP Julie Hanan Carruthers<\/strong> informed him herself. Gavin told TV Insider<\/em>:<\/p>\n She made it pretty clear that, \u2018You\u2019re gonna die a hero.’ And Derek\u2019s got a hero complex, so it\u2019s only fitting. I get the nature of it, but it didn\u2019t make it any less difficult to swallow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n What did you think of Derek’s exit? How do you feel about seeing the character go? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n This story was originally published by Daytime Confidential<\/a> on May 21, 2026, where it first appeared in the Beyond the Gates<\/a> section. Add Daytime Confidential as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/i><\/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.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a big plotline wrapped up this week on\u00a0Beyond the Gates, the sophomore sudser also had to bid adieu to one of its original stars. In fact, just as gunshots rang out and Detective Jacob Hawthorne (Jibre Hordges) found his life in danger, another person took a bullet for him. Who’s the gunshot victim, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2425877,"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":[25172],"tags":[475563,475564,381951],"class_list":["post-2425876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-ben-gavin","tag-cue-derek","tag-jacob-hawthorne"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ben-Gavin-Weighs-in-on-Beyond-The-Gates-Twist.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425876","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=2425876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425878,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425876\/revisions\/2425878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2425877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n