Bryan Batt, who played Salvatore Romano, an art director and closeted homosexual in AMC’s "Mad Men," which is set in the early 1960s, will not be on the show when it resumes next season, reports TV Guide.

Matt Weiner, creator of "Mad Men," explained that Romano would be off the show because once the character was outed in that time and business atmosphere, he would not be able to return to the Sterling-Cooper mileiu.

— Allison J. Waldman