Tom Cavanagh And Carlos Valdes To Exit 'The Flash' After Season 7

[Outsiders]

Deadline is reporting that original cast members, Tom Cavanagh and Carlos Valdes will be leaving the series at the end of Season 7.  The CW has already renewed The Flash for Season 8.

Valdes, who plays Cisco Ramon, will end his run with an appearance in the finale.  Cavanagh, who has played Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash as well as the various versions of Harrison Wells, was to leave the series at the end of Season 6 but the season was shortened when the pandemic hit.  Cavanagh left after the 3rd episode of Season 7 to wrap up the Season 6 storylines, but he continued on the show as a recurring guest star.

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“Tom and Carlos have been an integral part of our show for seven seasons, and will be greatly missed,” The Flash executive producer/showrunner Eric Wallace said in a statement to Deadline. “Both are incredible talents who created beloved characters that fans and audiences around the world have come to love. Which is why we are happily keeping the door open for return appearances.”

Cavanagh and Valdes were two of six remaining original Flash cast members, along with star Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker. Gustin already is contracted for Season 8 while the three have been negotiating new deals to return.

[mako]

Uh-uh, no way. They fooled me with that once. Valdes was supposed to leave last season, and HE'S STILL THERE.

[Zerzar999]

Good call on both these guys parts.

[Atlantis]

They make such a big deal of Cavanagh leaving the show (usually "death") but he comes back and comes back so quickly, it makes this kind of announcement just blah. 

I dont think the show ever explained how that huge particle accelerator facility operates with merely 2-4 scientists/technicians. They re-purposed it at some point as a meta-human prison, but we never see any staff tend to any of the inmates, we never see how the place runs, etc.  Now frankly at this point I'm not even sure I care.