DYNASTY Exits: Karen Cellini (Amanda #2)

Karen Cellini's final scene on "Dynasty".

The actress originally auditioned for a role on the Dynasty spin-off "The Colbys" in the summer 1986.

After the producers fired Catherine Oxenberg over her salary demands, they offered Cellini a chance to replace her.

This was just one of the creative decisions made in the show's 7th season, that contributed to the show's quick descent in the ratings.

After the viewers responded poorly to Amanda's replacement, the producers unceremoniously dropped the actress/character in this scene.

Karen Cellini appeared in the first 13 episodes of season 7 of "Dynasty" (fall of 1986).

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[alcazaruk]

There is no comparison whatsoever between the SUPERB Catherine Oxenberg and Karen Cellini. Losing the original Amanda was one of the biggest mistakes Dynasty producers ever made...

[nosuchpersonvideo]

Catherine's Amanda sweet and innocent? Good good! She twice slept with her mother's husband, tried to commit suicide, threw Sammy Jo in the pool, stoked the rivalry between Blake and Alexis, became fiercely jealous of the Duchess of Brahna, and outed herself in the Denver Chronicle as being Alexis' secret love child. I loved CO's Amanda, but she was as much a Carrington as the rest of them.

[The123musicals]

Catherine earned 7500 dollar per episode and asked for 2500 more and got fired. only the dynasty producers can be blamed that season 7 was such a downhill. i mean i feel sorry for karen, even though she was not the amanda catherine was. catherine was asked to come back after cellini got fired but she said no....and did it again when they asked her to come back for the reunion in 1991. i think this was the right decision. first fireing her and then ask her back???? well done catherine!

[newtonduck1]

That was her last scene?! What a crap ending for Amanda. I've been watching season 5 and I remembered how much I loved Catherine Oxenberg back then. Season 5 was the beginning of the end, but Amanda made it tolerable. All down hill after Moldavia. A new Amanda really didn't help.

[8inchtop]

She was such a joke. Dynasty had just gone to such sh*t by this point. Spelling and company just thought they could do anything so they threw this poor hag in at the last minute simply because she bore a passing resemblance to Oxenberg. Funny that didnt matter when they were recasting Fallon. I dont watch Dynasty after about season 5, 6.

[bhstephe]

Peace out!

[bluenail03]

They should have stuck to the original plan and had Amanda mysteriously drown (as was the first idea). They f@cked it all up!

[shelton705]

@hfxmusicman

What are you talking about? Emma Samms didn't drop the British accent when she took over the role of Fallon!

[ANZAmoon]

originally this was gonna set a scene of amandas death. she was to drown on the boat and he would get blamed. and originally it was planned for the 2 get married and move into the carrington mansion.

[wstckbrdg]

Karen got a bad rap; she is extremely talented and was put in a no win situation. She's a beautiful and talented performer who should be a star. Much more going for her than many so-called celebrities.

[Slavolicious]

@soapwonder Yeah, because Catherine Oxenberg was the World's greatest and Oscar-winning actress! Cellin was hired three days before shooting Season 7, and then fired within less than two months, I acutally felt sorry for her, she could have done something with the role, but boring storylines and typical Dynasty bitching on the set and stress because of dropping ratings resulted in what we got! An interesting thing is that, the writers were planning to kill off Amanda after this scene!

[notmemate]

@soapwonder I heard Oxenberg only wanted an extra two grand per episode (according to her) and Spelling canned her ass for it.

Two thousand bucks was nothing to that old fart.