Why isn’t Percy Hynes White’s Xavier in ‘Wednesday’ season two?

Wednesday season two arrives this week, but why is Percy Hynes White’s Xavier not involved? Find out below.

The first season of the show centred on the goth teen at the heart of the Addams Family and proved to be a huge hit for Netflix, becoming the streamer’s biggest English-language series of all time.

The second season is now imminent – with the first part landing on Wednesday (August 6), and part two following on September 3. Jenna Ortega returns in the title role, while half of the new episodes have been directed by Tim Burton.

The first two minutes of season opener ‘Here We Woe Again’ have been shared with fans already and you can watch those below.

In a four-star review of season one, NME wrote: “This is a reinvention, not a rewriting – and the core character survives intact. Wednesday’s acerbic wit, her sassy putdowns, are put to excellent use by Jenna Ortega, who is perfectly cast. She’s spoken in interviews about “challenges” and having to fight to protect her vision for the role, but any creative differences appear to have been worked out.”

A third season has already been commissioned, with showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar also now working on a spinoff series.

Why isn’t Percy Hynes White’s Xavier in Wednesday season two?

At the end of season one, it appeared that Xavier was being set up as a potential love interest for Wednesday, but in September 2023, it emerged that the character had been written out of season two.

In January 2023, a sexual misconduct allegation was made against him in a since-deleted post on X by an anonymous social media user.

The poster claimed she had been sexually assaulted by Hynes White at a party he was hosting, and accused him of deliberately trying to get women drunk so they would have sex with him.

He later strenuously denied the allegations in an Instagram story, saying the “rumours were false”, describing it as a “campaign of misinformation”. No formal complaint was made against him.

Ortega later addressed the situation, saying that losing Hynes White’s character had been “a weird redirect, but we’re introducing so many different characters that I think it kind of will get lost.”