banking $47 million a year for “Judge Judy” — vacated the bench/throne she held for 25 seasons to star in a new streaming series, “Judy Justice,” the beloved badass decided to go solo.Petri Hawkins Byrd — who had served as Sheindlin’s bailiff since “Judge Judy” premiered in 1996 — has revealed that he was “not asked” to be part of the new show, premiering Nov.
1 on the Amazon and IMDB TV streaming platforms.“My assumption is if you were going on to do something else, that you were at least going to ask me if I wanted to have the opportunity to audition for the role,” Byrd, 63, told EW of allegedly getting “priced out” of his gig.Sheindlin’s sidekick found out about her new show just like the general public — but at the time he was more.
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