Taye Diggs is making an unexpected return to All American . Variety reports that Diggs will guest-star on the May 20 episode of All American , despite his character dying in the fifth season . As Shadow and Act reported in February , Diggs’ character Coach Billy Baker unexpectedly died after trying to save Jabari (Simeon Daise) from a bus accident. It’s not clear on how Billy will come back in this episode, but it makes the most sense that he’d be back in a flashback because, as far as what showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll and Diggs have said about the character, Billy is firmly dead and won’t come back in the main timeline. Carroll said in February that even though Baker has died, it wouldn’t be the last time we’d see him. As she told The Hollywood Reporter, “It has been an honor to work with Taye over these last five seasons and to watch him bring such incredible life to the role of Billy Baker.” “It has truly been a gift for me and my fellow writers to write a character that was...
