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"It&amp;#x2019;s not often that an actor is happy to learn his character is being killed off on a hit show, but Nashville alum Oliver Hudson certainly felt that way about the demise of his Jeff Fordham. The 39-year-old actor sat down with HuffPost Live on Wednesday, Nov. 18, to discuss his dearly departed character and why he wasn&amp;#x2019;t sad to say goodbye.&amp;#xA0;&amp;#x201C;Elation, honestly!&amp;#x201D; Hudson admitted when asked how he felt about Jeff&amp;#x2019;s untimely death. &amp;#x201C;Only for the reason that I knew that I had only four episodes left on Nashville because of Scream Queens. So I wanted to go out in a blaze of glory, so to speak. I got my wish.&amp;#x201D;The scheming exec plummeted to his death while trying to save Hayden Panettiere&amp;#x2019;s Juliette Barnes on the Oct. 28 episode of the ABC hit.&amp;#x201C;There was a redemptive quality to it,&amp;#x201D; the actor, who now plays college professor Wes Gardner on Fox&amp;#x2019;s Scream Queens, told HuffPost. &amp;#x201C;I&amp;#x2019;m sort of saving the star of the show as I sacrifice my body to the bottom of the sidewalk! And I was happy about it, honestly.&amp;#x201D;One person who was perhaps not so thrilled about the character&amp;#x2019;s death? Hudson&amp;#x2019;s famous sister, Kate Hudson.&amp;#x201C;I got a text from my sister, and her friend is filming her watching that scene, and Kate&amp;#x2019;s like, &amp;#x2018;Oh my god! Oh my god!&amp;#x2019;&amp;#x201D; the actor recalled. &amp;#x201C;And then I fall off the roof and she literally gets teary-eyed!&amp;#x201D;Catch Oliver in his new role in Fox&amp;#x2019;s Scream Queens on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Fox. Nashville airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET on ABC."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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