Ugly Betty has Emmy nominations galore, and a guest star list of Who’s Who in Hollywood. Will ABC execs really axe the show, or this just an Ugly rumor?
A reported 5.3 million viewers during its most recent season wasn’t enough. Several Emmy nominations and even one Emmy award wasn’t enough.
ABC network representatives have confirmed the rejection of Ugly Betty‘s fifth season, with plans to end the show in 2010. The network cites low numbers as the cause – despite attempts to gain viewers by shuffling the show from Friday to Wednesday, airing it after the popular Cougar Town.
“We’ve mutually come to the difficult decision to make this Ugly Betty‘s final season,” executive producer Silvio Horta and ABC President Steve McPherson said in a joint statement, according to Yahoo! TV Blog. “We are extremely proud of this groundbreaking series, and felt it was important to give the fans a proper farewell.”
Ugly Betty won an “Outstanding Leading Actress” Emmy award for star America Ferrera in 2007. The show also included three Emmy nominations for co-star Vanessa Williams, who played catty, power-hungry former supermodel Wilhelmina Slater.
On the show, Slater depends comedically on plastic surgery to maintain her features; in real life, Williams, now 46, has consulted some injectables herself. A MakeMeHeal.com story included comparison photos, plus comments she made to Barbara Walters admitting her love of wrinkle remover. “I certainly do Botox, which I definitely think that almost every woman that I know has,” she said. “And it’s a miracle drug, no cutting, nothing I did it after I turned 40, but I told the doctor, ‘My face has got to move. I am not looking for perfection, I am looking for refreshment.’”
The Yahoo! blog added that the show has generally always been a high-profile turnout. Cameos included guest stars such as Salma Hayek, Lindsay Lohan, Martha Stewart, Naomi Campbell, Victoria Beckham and Lucy Liu.
Despite all the plusses, though, and the show’s popularity, it’s on its way out. 
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