Gina Linetti is not going to go from the 99 quietly (Picture: NBCUniversal)

Brooklyn 99 is about to lose a major member of the squad – but in typical Gina fashion, there’s no way she’s going out in anything but a complete blaze of glory.

The cast of the comedy series are definitely going to feel it when the time comes for Chelsea Peretti, who plays Gina, to hang up her dancing shoes and walk away from the show with her eyes firmly locked on her phone.

But they promise there’s no exit quite like a Gina Linetti exit.

Chelsea revealed she was leaving the show after five seasons as ultimate diva Gina (Picture: Getty)

Melissa Fumero, who plays the resident smart alec Amy Santiago, teased to TVLine: ‘It’s fucking epic. It’s such a great Gina episode. Her grand finale is with Amy and Rosa, as it should be.




‘She has stuff with everybody, but they paired her with us and we had so much fun shooting that last week. It was bittersweet and sad and we definitely cried, happy tears.’

Showrunner Dan Goor added that the show will send her off in ‘a very Gina Linetti-esque way’ – so we know it’s going to be an all-singing, all-dancing spectacular.

The squad is not going to be the same without her (Picture: Getty/NBC)

Nothing but the best for the human form of the 100 emoji.

Chelsea announced that she would be leaving the show back in October, after the show was given a last minute save from cancellation.

However, it won’t be forever – because you can never totally be rid of Gina.

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She said: ‘B99 fans. Hiiiiiiiiiiii. Chelsea Peretti, here. I won’t be doing a full season of Brooklyn Nine Nine in Season 6. But that doesn’t mean I won’t ever be back, winky face emoji, heart emoji. I want to thank you for the hours you spent watching Gina be Gina: confident, idiotic-but-smart, pithy, and infused with rhythm and cell-phone radiation.

‘It is hard for me to know exactly what to say.’

Brooklyn 99 returns early next year on NBC.

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