Foo Fighters FIRE band member in surprise resolution… 8 months after Dave Grohl’s secret affair rocked the gang

The Foo Fighters have fired a key band member in a surprise resolution 8 months after Dave Grohl‘s affair rocked the gang.

Drummer Josh Freese introduced he have been rapidly sacked from the band after two years in an Instagram submit – after being tipped to completely change the past due Taylor Hawkins within the iconic rock band.

He wrote: ‘The Foo Fighters referred to as me Monday night time to let me know they’ve made up our minds ‘to go in a different direction with their drummer.’ No explanation why used to be given.

 ‘Regardless, I loved the previous two years with them, each off and on level, and I enhance no matter they really feel is perfect for the band.

‘In my 40 years of drumming professionally, I’ve by no means been let move from a band, so whilst I’m now not indignant—just a little stunned and disillusioned. 

‘But as maximum of you recognize I’ve all the time labored freelance and bounced between bands so, I’m tremendous. Stay tuned for my ‘Top 10 possible reasons Josh got booted from the Foo Fighters‘ list.’

Drummer Josh Freese – pictured last year with Grohl – announced he had been abruptly sacked from the band in an Instagram post – following rumors he had been set to permanently replace the late Taylor Hawkins.

DailyMail.com has contacted representatives for the Foo Fighters for comment.

Freese, 52, officially joined the band in May 2023 after the shock death of longtime drummer Hawkins at 50 in 2022. 

He performed countless huge gigs with the band – whose current line-up is Chris Shiflett, Rami Jaffee, frontman Grohl, Nate Mendel and Pat Smear – including headlining the 2023 Glastonbury music festival.

In 2022, Freese played with Foo Fighters for the first time at Hawkins’ tribute concerts in London and Los Angeles, playing on the late drummer’s personal package.

Freese has labored as a drummer for a number of many years and has toured with acts reminiscent of Nine Inch Nails, Devo and Guns N’ Roses. 

He has additionally written and co-written quite a lot of songs, together with credit with Queens of the Stone Age, the Vandals, A Perfect Circle, Dwarves, Goon Moon, Devo, and Sting.

The Foo Fighters closing publicly carried out in August 2024, at T-Mobile Park in Seattle. They are subsequent set to accomplish on October 4 on the F1 Singapore Grand Prix.

Hawkins passed on to the great beyond on the age of 50 whilst the gang used to be on excursion in Bogota, Colombia, in March 2022.

The performer joined the band in 1997, 3 years after it used to be first of all based through Grohl, 56.

The past due musician repeatedly remained with the gang after then and used to be the recipient of fifteen Grammy Awards.

However, Hawkins started experiencing chest pains whilst staying on the Four Seasons Casa Medina resort and therefore passed on to the great beyond at the night of March 22.

An post-mortem later printed that the drummer had ten other components in his gadget on the time of his demise.

 Freese mentioned he used to be ‘stunned and disillusioned’ to be let move – pictured 2022 acting with The Vandals

Rockers together with Mike Portnoy and Wolf Van Halen reacted with disbelief

Hawkins, passed on to the great beyond on the age of 50 whilst the gang used to be on excursion in Bogota, Colombia, in March 2022. The performer joined the band in 1997, 3 years after it used to be first of all based through Dave Grohl – pictured days prior to his demise

Freese’s arrival into the band used to be introduced in May 2023 – the Grammy Award-winning band made the scoop identified to the general public all through their Foo Fighters: Preparing Music for Concerts livestream

Fans have been left livid over the ‘strange transfer’ to sack Freese

Freese’s firing comes just about 8 months after Grohl welcomed a child girl with rock fan Jennifer Young – he  stocks 3 older daughters — Violet, 18; Harper, 15; and Ophelia, 10 — together with his spouse, Jordyn Blum; observed together with his circle of relatives in 2023 in LA

On September 10 2024, Dave took to his social media to announce in a remark that he had welcomed a daughter whilst vowing to take a look at to ‘regain [the] accept as true with’ of his spouse and their daughters 

Young is an LA primarily based, Florida-born rock and roll fan; Jennifer pictured

It used to be additionally introduced that the performer’s middle used to be two times the scale of an ordinary one.

A couple of star-studded tribute live shows came about at Wembley Stadium in London and on the Kia Forum in Inglewood.

Both Freese and Hawkins’ son, Oliver Shane, now 18, have been on drums all through the primary efficiency.

Grohl threw the band into additional turmoil in September 2024 when he printed he had fathered a kid out of doors of his marriage to Jordyn Blum, with whom he stocks 3 daughters. 

Jennifer Young, 38, used to be showed to be the mum of the daughter he fathered out of wedlock 

Jennifer  showed that her child used to be born on August 1, 2024, and she or he mentioned Dave’s closing title is indexed at the beginning certificates.

She lives together with her mom in Los Angeles, and continuously takes their daughter for walks of their group.

A supply advised People mag in November 2024 that the rocker is inquisitive about running issues out together with her and their daughters, and that divorce is off the desk.

The supply mentioned: ‘He’s now not running with a divorce lawyer and as a substitute hoping to paintings issues out together with his spouse.’

Another insider mentioned that he ‘loves his circle of relatives,’ noting that he has ‘been prioritizing his circle of relatives. He is aware of he tousled. It’s a type of eventualities the place you do not understand what you might have accomplished till you are about to lose it. He does not need to lose his circle of relatives.’

Multiple resources have claimed that Jordyn has identified in regards to the child ‘for some time,’ and mentioned she is a ‘nice mother and really devoted to their daughters.’

Jordyn and Dave proportion daughters Violet, 18, Harper, 15, and Ophelia, 10.

Dave and Jordyn have been observed in combination in February for the primary time since his surprising dishonest and child information. 

They have been observed within the automobile in combination, after Jordyn picked him up from an LA house house. Neither looked to be dressed in wedding ceremony rings on the time.

Hawkins is pictured acting in 2005

A supply advised US Weekly in March the couple are giving their 22 12 months marriage any other move.

They mentioned: ‘Jordyn has forgiven Dave and is attempting to transport on. She is [still] totally devastated through the location however is status through his aspect.

‘They are going to counseling, and Dave has been doing the rest he can to win again Jordyn’s accept as true with. Neither of them needs the circle of relatives damaged.’

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