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Lisa Kudrow has confessed being fired from ‘Frasier’ was “devastating”. The 61-year-old actress was hired to play producer Roz Doyle in the sitcom opposite Kelsey Grammer in the title role, but she was given the boot before the pilot episode was filmed and replaced by Peri Gilpin and Lisa has now admitted losing such an important job was a huge setback. During an appearance on the ‘Smartless’ podcast, Lisa called her exit “devastating”, adding: “I didn’t film it [the pilot]. I got fired from ‘Frasier’.” She explained director James Burrows stopped the action during a run-through for the pilot …

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