Vanessa Lachey Explains NCIS: Hawai’i Cancellation to Her Daughter

Vanessa Lachey is having a tricky time explaining to her 9-year-old daughter, Brooklyn, that NCIS: Hawai’i was canceled.

“Making an attempt to elucidate this information to my daughter … and he or she makes me Mickey ears so I can ‘smile,’” Vanessa, 43, shared in an Instagram Story submit on Sunday, April 28. “This determination was larger than a TV present.”

Vanessa shares Brooklyn and sons Camden, 11, and Phoenix, 6, with husband Nick Lachey.

Us Weekly confirmed on Friday, April 26, that NCIS: Hawai’i was canceled forward of the present’s season 3 finale.

“Gutted, confused, blindsided,” Vanessa shared through her Instagram Story on Saturday, April 27, reacting to the information. “Grateful, assured, beloved followers!”

NCIS: Hawai’i was a 2021 spinoff of the unique NCIS sequence, which is at present in its twenty first season. Vanessa starred as Particular Agent in Cost Jane Tennant, making historical past throughout the NCIS franchise because the first-ever feminine lead. (NCIS spinoff sequence additionally embrace NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans, NCIS: Sydney and NCIS: Origins.)

Vanessa concluded her submit on Saturday by telling followers that she’s nonetheless “processing this information” whereas being “current” along with her household.

“I like you all!” she concluded. “Mahalo Nui Loa.”

Half 1 of the season 3 finale is about to air on Monday, April 29, with the second half — now appearing because the present’s sequence finale — airing on Monday, Could 6. Vanessa beforehand opened up about her character’s significant influence in a 2021 interview.

“This position is certainly a transfer in the precise route for ladies and particularly Asian-American actresses who wish to safe main roles in tv and movie,” she stated on the time. “Rising up, I by no means noticed a feminine lead on tv that regarded like me. My hope is that younger women, like my daughter, Brooklyn, will develop up in a world the place extra actresses appear like them.”

Vanessa starred alongside Noah Mills, Alex Tarrant, Yasmine Al-Bustami and Tori Anderson. LL Cool J, who beforehand performed Sam Hanna on NCIS: Los Angeles, reprised his position for the present’s third season.

Fellow NCIS: Hawai’i star Jason Antoon completely advised Us earlier this month that he hoped the present would obtain a season 4 order.

“I feel CBS likes it, and it was profitable after we’ve finished them with L.A. as properly and [regular NCIS],” he stated of the present, discussing attainable crossovers with the opposite franchises. “And that’s simply cool. It’s just like the Marvel universe. It’s like, ‘Why not?’ It is best to dabble in that. It’s actually cool.”