I don’t feel like finding the link, but way back in September I posted about how Claire’s friend Zach was gay. Well it seems that is no longer the case.

Series Creator Tim Kring had this to say:

I am very sorry this has caused concern for the readers of your website. It was certainly not our intention to confuse the issue of Zach’s character being gay. We have too much respect for our audience to do that intentionally. However, it has simply become too complicated behind the scenes to push this issue further with this particular character. We apologize for misleading the audience, and wish that we could have handled things better on our end. But making a TV show is often a very imprecise business. As you stated, Heroes is a big, sprawling drama and there is no reason to believe that a gay character will not be represented on our show in the future. It is my hope than we do, we do it with honesty and dignity. That will certainly be our attempt.

Meanwhile, several other sources have confirmed that Thomas Dekker was the problem, not Kring, the show, or NBC. Dekker’s manager threatened to pull her client from the show unless the story was changed. I personally think its pretty crappy and that Zach’s character should just be killed off, but as we saw in last week’s episode, his memory was wiped, so for all intensive purposes he may be done. Also, an upcoming death is related to a situation over an agent/manager and maybe it’s Deeker.