The Awful Truth is exclusively confirming that Nicollette Sheridan is leaving “Desperate Housewives” before the end of the current season. Apparently, a script is circulating around Wisteria Lane that includes Edie’s exit and ABC is confirming she will be written out of the show. Insiders say the character will be killed off when Edie finds out her husband is trying to kill her. She will run out of the house, in an attempt to escape her husband, but will get in an accident, “something involving her car and an electrical wire.” Last year, E! claimed Sheridan had several demands on set and the show’s creator Marc Cherry was trying to get rid of her then, looks like he finally succeeded!

Yesterday, I reported T.R. Knight and Katherine Heigl are leaving “Grey’s Anatomy”, now Nicollette Sheridan is leaving “DH”, but that’s not the end of character exits at ABC! It has also been confirmed this week that Balthazar Getty is leaving “Brothers and Sisters” and it sounds like his exit will be sooner rather than later. Getty left his wife for Siena Miller last year and there has been buzz ever since that the show wasn’t happy about his off screen behavior. It seems like the writers are going to let his character (Tommy Walker) display some bad behavior of his own in the coming weeks. Rumor has it Tommy will go to jail, get bailed out, get wasted, flirt with young girls, get slapped by his mother and then go on the lam in Mexico.

You don’t have to worry about Getty though. He’ll be fine without his gig at “Brothers and Sisters”. He is in line to inherit his great-grandfather, Jean Paul Getty’s, multi-billion dollar fortune from the Getty Oil Company.