Variety reports:
Everything’s still coming up Milhouse for Pamela Hayden. The actress, who has voiced Bart’s best friend on “The Simpsons” for 35 years, is retiring after Sunday night’s episode, “Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes.” But Hayden said she has no regrets in parting ways with the long-running show.
“How many actors can say they’ve worked on a show for 35 years straight?” Hayden told Variety. Given the long lead time that animation takes from concept to air, Hayden’s exit has been in the works for a while.
Hayden, whose voices also included school bully Jimbo Jones, Rod Flanders, Chief Wiggum’s wife Sarah and Lisa’s friend Janey Powell, said “The Simpsons” has been accommodating in preparing for her retirement, and the producers even offered to give her a going-away party.
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Thank you for 35 years of Milhouse and so many more, Pamela Hayden!
Watch her final performance on #TheSimpsons this Sunday on @FOXTV, next day on @hulu. pic.twitter.com/Ywr55m2Xwh
— The Simpsons (@TheSimpsons) November 20, 2024
‘The Simpsons’ Milhouse Star Pamela Hayden on Why She’s Leaving After Sunday’s Episode: ‘It Was a Tough Decision, But the Right One’ https://t.co/wVJN1y92Ca
— Variety (@Variety) November 24, 2024