 Julie McCullough, who played Kirk Camerons love interest Julie  Costello during the fourth season, was abruptly fired from the show  at the start of filming for the episode "Mike and Julies Wedding"  (in which her character would have married Mike Seaver). When she  arrived for filming, she was given a new script, in which Julie left  Mike at the altar. While no official reason was given to McCullough,  it was common knowledge that Kirk Cameron had demanded that she be  fired from the series. Cameron, who had become a born again  Christian several years earlier, disliked McCullough because the  actress had posed in Playboy months before being hired, and demanded  her firing as a condition of his signing a new contract. This caused  a huge backlash among fans of the series, forcing the shows  producers to bring a reluctant McCullough (who had wanted nothing  more to do with the show and Kirk Cameron) back in a hastily written  episode to give the Julie character proper send