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Benedict’s Abbey and Benedictine College will issue a supplemental statement following the conclusion of the investigation. Hes never starred in a huge box office hit hes done no edgy HBO series no major theatre. We apologize to all those who have been affected by Fr. Benedict’s Abbey and Benedictine College remain committed to creating and maintaining a safe environment for all people who interact with our clergy or religious and are involved in our ministries. Simon pertinent to this investigation, or if you have been affected by this and would like to seek out support, please contact the victim’s advocate at 91. We are reaching out to all those who may be affected by these reports. Simon is prohibited from being present on campus pending the conclusion of the investigation. Benedict’s Abbey are commencing a third-party investigation of these reports. At this point these reports do not involve a minor or any alleged criminal behavior. Simon crossed physical and emotional boundaries in pastoral relationships with other adult women. Since his removal, the College has received additional reports that Fr. Simon was not complying with these boundaries, he was removed from ministry. This week, immediately after the Abbey learned that Fr. Simon, and that counseling and support be offered to the female involved. The board recommended that certain boundaries be placed on Fr. Simon displayed inappropriate affection and favoritism toward the woman. Following his disclosure, the Abbey convened its internal review board to investigate. Benedict’s Abbey leadership that he had engaged in inappropriate conduct with an adult, female student at the College. Simon Baker, OSB, the chaplain of Benedictine College, self-disclosed to St.

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What's next is anyone's guess, but it sounds like it won't have anything to do with chasing down serial killers on CBS.In April Fr. Plus, he is still a working actor and does have some projects in the pipeline, including an upcoming film called Blaze from director Del Kathryn Barton. At one point Simon Baker's contract at CBS was guaranteeing him at least $30 million in salary, and if he didn't spend egregiously, there should still be plenty of that to fall back on. Plenty of actors slow down when the time is right or they've made enough money to pursue roles they really want to take most. As an actor in Australia, maybe once every couple of months there’d be a script that would come in and everybody would scramble to read it… our Australia film industry is a small industry. Now the amount of content is just insane. And that was mid90s, that’s not even now. How many auditions there were, how much content was being made. What I remember is just how much work there was, like how many jobs when I first got to Hollywood. He may be working more at home in his native Australia since moving home in 2015, but he does fondly recall the sheer number of projects that were available in the U.S.

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Confidential before he landed the coveted network TV gig as Patrick Jane. He reportedly moved to Los Angeles in 1995, appearing in a slew of movies, including The Devil Wears Prada, The Ring Two and L.A. Prior to coming to America to work on projects like The Mentalist, Simon Baker was a working actor in Australia. Even make people feel more normal or part of a community. To use it in a way that can be enlightening as well as entertaining, and it can open people up to different ways of seeing things. To use the medium and this beautiful art form that I love, and it’s a very empathic art form, cinema and television, these days, because they’re sort of almost inter-melded. That's his passion, and in short, it sounds like he's at a point where he's able to pursue that passion, rather than chasing those grueling network hours or looking to land those bigger network paychecks. This gives entertainment a better opportunity to build a sense of community and camaraderie. He also says what’s kind of “more focus' these days is how television and film are becoming more and more melded. I’m not as hungry about work as much so now I’m a little choosier about the sort of stories I want to be involved in. Things are a little bit different now for me.

I’m in my early 50s now so I’m kind of – I have a different attitude and outlook about things now because I was able to work pretty consistently as a younger actor and provide for my family, etc. But he spoke with CBS LA about why that is, noting, It’s just that he’s not acting as steadily or with as much of a push these days. It’s not that Baker has quit the acting game in fact, he had a pandemic-era film High Ground come out in 2020. As it turns out, it’s all about the grind, or at least about the time and sweat that Simon Baker put in earlier in his career in order to set himself up for more family and community time.