Returning Chicago Fire star Jesse Spencer has hilariously poked fun after a leaked set picture emerged online.
The actor was confirmed to be coming back for the season 10 finale back in April, following his character Captain Matthew Casey's exit in October.
In new on-set photos, Spencer is seen in character sporting a suit and slicked back hair as he rides on a boat.
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Replying to a fan's tweet showing the pictures, Spencer quipped: "That's not me....I think it's Casey's long lost bro or something. My hair don't do that."
The character originally exited after deciding to move to Oregon and raise his late best friend Andy Darden's young boys, though co-showrunner Derek Haas recently revealed that they tried hard to bring Spencer back to the show.
"We pretty much begged him, pleaded and offered him the moon so that he would come back and do the finale. But he's the greatest and he was in even before we started all of that," he said (via TVLine).
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"The character pledged he would be best man at Severide's wedding. We're so grateful to [Jesse] that he would come back and honour that pledge."
Casey's return is set to come at a "critical" moment for his relationship with girlfriend Brett on the show, according to co-showrunner Andrea Newman, and while he is "very happy and content" with his Oregon life, the only "question mark" remains the long-distance relationship.
Newman added ahead of Spencer's return to set: "It's going to be a very beautiful thing on the set to see that face up here. We're all excited about it. I'm going to cry, I'll tell you that."
Chicago Fire, Chicago PD and Chicago Med air on NBC and Peacock in the US, and on Sky Witness in the UK.
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