“Dawson’s Creek” will be without its titular star when cast members reunite Monday evening to commemorate the show that put many of them on Hollywood’s map in the early aughts.

After months of planning and anticipation, actor James Van Der Beek, protagonist of the WB teen drama series that ran from 1998 to 2003, said Sunday he was “gutted” to be sidelined by health issues and unable to attend .

“This is the evening I’d been looking forward to MOST since my angel Michelle Williams said she was putting it together, way back in January,” he wrote on Instagram. “So you can imagine how gutted I was when two stomach viruses conspired to knock me out of commission and keep me grounded at the worst possible moment.”

Van Der Beek, 48, revealed last November that he had stage 3 colorectal

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