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TIL that David Yost, the original Blue Power Ranger, left the show due to the harassment he received from creators, producers, writers over his being gay, causing him to have a nervous breakdown upon leaving. “The reason that I walked off is that I was called ‘f—–‘ one too many times,” Yost says.

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