There has been less of Ice-T ‘s Sergeant Odafin ‘Fin’ Tutuola on NBC’s Law & Order: SVU this season, and fans are noticing. The veteran actor-rapper was asked about his reduced presence on the Mariska Hargitay-led crime drama at a recent event and he said it was tied to the return of Kelli Giddish as a series regular for Season 27.

“It’s just basically business,” he said in a video shared by TMZ . “They brought Kelli back, and at the end of the day, they couldn’t really keep both of us on full-time, as far as budget-wise. So they said, Ice, we’ll have you come in and out this year, that way we could bring… Everybody wanted Kelli back, and we’ve got new cops and stuff like that.”

In addition to Giddish’s return, SVU promoted Aimé Donna Kelly series regular while two series reg

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