Here's the real truth about why these actors departed their shows...

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LISA RINNA (Taylor)
HER LIPS WON'T QUIT - BUT SHE HAS

Come September there's going to be a vacancy in your favorite apartment complex. That's good news for Taylor McBride's on-screen MP nemeses - Kyle, Amanda, Peter and Michael - but bad news for viewers, who are definitely going to miss watching the pouty-lipped actress bring her crazy character to life.
     "Lisa thoroughly enjoyed playing the character of Taylor," says her publicist Todd Adair. "But she's been doing it for two years, and she feels sheds taken the chaacter as far as she can go."
     The former DAYS OF OUR LIVES actress (ex-Billie) also recently gave birth to her first child, a daughter she and husband Harry Hamlin named Delilah Belle. Adair says Rinna is looking forward to spending time with her baby.
     "She really wants to just take some time to be a mother before she gets back and starts pursuing any options," he says.
     But just because she's leaving MP doesn't mean that you won't soon be able to see more of Rinna than you ever dreamed. Her exit from the series will coincide with the release of a revealing pictorial - for which the actress posed while very pregnant - in the September issue of Playboy.
     Meanwhile, there's always a chance that Rinna will follow the lead of Josie Bissett (Jane), who quit MP to be a mom and then returned later.
     "That's always a possibility, says her rep. "I think they're leaving the door open." Why not? She's missed already!