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THE voice actor behind the iconic Milhouse character in The Simpsons has retired after 35 years.
Bosses working on the beloved sitcom will launch a casting process to replace the TV star.
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Pamela Hayden has played Bart’s best friend Milhouse in The Simpsons for nearly 700 episodes.
However, on Wednesday the 70-year-old announced she was officially walking away from the series.
In a statement to fans, Pamela said: “The time has come for me to hang up my microphone.
“It’s been an honor and a joy to have worked on such a funny, witty, and groundbreaking show…
“I’ll always have a special place in my heart for that blue-haired 10-year-old boy with glasses.”
She added its not quite yet the end for her voice over career, saying she was leaving to “pursue other creative outlets”.
Pamela’s final episode in the role will be screened this Sunday, November 24th.
The Simpsons bosses have revealed they will begin casting for the star’s replacement in the future.
Pamela has been apart of the show since it first premiered in 1989.
The Milhouse character was named by show bosses after former US president Richard Milhous Nixon.
The Simpsons Most Memorable Episodes
- Season 1, Episode 1 (December 1989) – Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire – the programme kicked off with its very own Christmas special and has gone down in The Simspson history books. In the episode, fans met the clan and sees Bart decide to get a tattoo underage without his parents permission. Marge is then forced to use all the family’s Xmas money on having it removed. Meanwhile, as Homes learns he won’t get a Xmas bonus, he is forced to take a job as a shopping mall Santa.
- Season 4, Episode 12 (January 1993) – Marge vx The Monorail – In this episode, the residents of Springfield are scammed into believing they will be getting an epic monorail built to take them across the town. It is only Marge and Lisa that are able to not get swept up in the Monorail Mania. The episode is also loved for introducing fans to the Monorail song.
- Season 6, Episode 25 (May 1995) – Who Shot Mr. Burns Part One – Fans of the show were left surprised when it aired a rare cliffhanger at the end of its sixth season as fans were left wondering who shot the Power Plant owner. Fans were truly left wondering whodunnit.
- Season 12, Episode 4 (February 2001) – New Kids on the Bleech – This New Kids on the Block based episode had fans singing along all night long. Bart and his pals were recruited to make a boyband supergroup but Lisa quickly realised their hit song was packed with subliminal messeges. Titled Party Posse, their breakout hit was Drop Da Bomb but the chorus’ lyrics Yvan Eht Nioj was quickly uncovered as reading Join The Navy backwards.
