Mr. Big is glad he’s dead, Sarah Jessica Parker is silent, and the nostalgia industrial complex just keeps spinning.
Chris Noth is doing what a lot of aging leading men do when the phone stops ringing: talking. A lot.
In a new red-carpet chat, he basically thanked the TV gods that Mr. Big was killed off in the first episode of the Sex and the City sequel series, and used the moment to shade both the show and his former co-star Sarah Jessica Parker – again.
The Moment
At a menswear charity event in New York City – the Blue Jacket Fashion Show – Noth, 71, was asked about his brief stint on And Just Like That, the sequel to Sex and the City.
According to a videoed interview with a British tabloid published this week, he said he was “very lucky” that Mr. Big was killed off at the start of the series back in December 2021 and added, with a chuckle, that he felt “very good” about not being more involved in the show, which wrapped its run last year amid very mixed fan reviews.
One week after his character’s on-screen death originally aired, multiple women came forward with sexual-assault allegations against Noth. He has repeatedly and strongly denied those claims.
In response to those allegations back in 2021, Sarah Jessica Parker and her co-stars Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis issued a joint statement on social media saying they were “deeply saddened” to hear the allegations, that they “support the women who have come forward,” and that they “commend them” for speaking out.
Asked at this latest event if he had anything to say about his falling-out with Parker, Noth shut it down with a curt “no” and added, “it’s over.” Publicly, at least, he wants this chapter closed.
On the same carpet, he was photographed chatting with Mario Cantone, who played Anthony Marentino in both series. Cantone told reporters there was “no tension” with Noth and that it was “great to see him,” stressing that his own experience with Noth has been positive.
Noth also said he keeps in touch with John Corbett, who played Carrie’s other great love, Aidan, and that he’d even wished Kim Cattrall a happy birthday “a few months ago” – a pointed nod, given Cattrall’s long-running, very public rift with Parker.
A representative for Parker did not immediately respond to requests for comment, which fits her pattern here: she’s let statements speak once and then gone quiet.
This all comes just weeks after Noth used a social-media workout post to swipe at Parker more directly. When a commenter suggested his “F-k New Year’s” caption really meant “f-k SJP & her award,” Noth replied, “Right.” He went on to say that before Parker made her 2021 statement supporting the accusers, she should’ve called him for “the real scoop,” and that her choice was “hurtful” and “really affected everything.”
The Take
Let’s be honest: this doesn’t look like a grand Hollywood feud so much as one man nursing a bruised ego in public.
Parker made one measured statement when the allegations surfaced, aligned herself with the women who came forward, and then removed herself from the narrative. Noth, on the other hand, keeps revisiting it – in comments, in interviews, now on a fashion-show carpet.
There’s a familiar pattern here. A beloved male star hits a wall – allegations, changing tastes, fewer roles – and suddenly “Hollywood” is the villain, not his own behavior or the changing culture. Noth complains that Parker’s statement was “more Hollywood than Hollywood,” but the irony is hard to miss: he’s the one turning a serious, painful situation into a running subplot in his personal press tour.
And the “I’m lucky they killed me off” jab at the reboot? That’s textbook cope. Did And Just Like That have problems? Absolutely. The writing wobbled, the tone shifted, and half the fandom hate-watched it. But Noth wasn’t cut because the Peloton bike was corny; he was cut because multiple women accused him of serious misconduct, and the show’s team did what every studio in 2021 was doing: triage.
The fantasy here is that this is about creative choices. It isn’t. It’s about reputational risk, corporate lawyers, and an audience that no longer looks the other way quite so easily.
For viewers who grew up with Carrie and Big, this is the uncomfortable part of middle-aged media consumption: realizing that the actors attached to your comfort shows are whole, messy humans. You can love the chemistry, the clothes, the Sunday-afternoon reruns – and still clock that Noth seems more upset about Parker’s statement than about the women who say he harmed them.
It’s like watching your favorite restaurant’s old chef argue with the health inspector in the parking lot – you’re not sure you want to know this much about what happens in the kitchen.
In the end, Noth insisting “it’s over” while continuing to lob little grenades at Parker says it all. For her, it is over. For him, it’s material.
Receipts
Confirmed:
- Noth said he was “very lucky” Mr. Big was killed off early in And Just Like That and that he felt “very good” about not appearing more, in an on-camera interview at the Blue Jacket Fashion Show in New York published by a British tabloid on February 4, 2026.
- Noth was written out of And Just Like That when his character died in the series’ first episode, which aired in December 2021.
- Within a week of that episode, multiple women publicly accused Noth of sexual assault in reports by major U.S. entertainment and news outlets in mid-December 2021; he has issued multiple statements firmly denying the allegations.
- Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis posted a joint statement on social media on December 16, 2021, saying they were “deeply saddened” by the allegations against Noth, that they support the women who came forward, and that they commend them for speaking out.
- Noth replied “Right” to a fan who commented “You mean f-k SJP & her award right? lol” under his New Year’s workout post on social media in January 2026, before elaborating that Parker had not called him before releasing her 2021 statement and describing that as “hurtful.”
- At the Blue Jacket event, actor Mario Cantone said on camera that there was “no tension” with Noth and that it was “great to see him,” adding that he can only speak to his own positive experience.
Unverified / Reported but not fully confirmed:
- The specific private conversations (or lack of them) between Noth and Parker before and after the 2021 allegations are known only to them; we have Noth’s version on record, but Parker has not publicly detailed her side.
- Any suggestion that Noth’s character was killed off because of internal personal rifts, rather than broader business and reputational decisions, is speculative; the production has not offered a detailed public explanation beyond standard casting and storyline language.
Backstory (For the Casual Reader)
If you dipped out after the original series, here’s the quick refresher. Sex and the City ran from 1998 to 2004 and turned Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw and Chris Noth’s Mr. Big into one of TV’s defining on-again, off-again couples, spawning two feature films and a million knockoff Manolo Blahniks.
In 2021, the franchise was revived as And Just Like That, following an older Carrie navigating grief, friendship, and a very different New York. The shock twist in the premiere: Mr. Big dies of a heart attack after a workout, effectively writing Noth out of the show. Days later, multiple women accused him of sexual assault in incidents they said took place years earlier. He denied the allegations, but his scenes were quietly removed from the season finale, and the public tie between Noth and the franchise was severed.
Parker and co-stars voiced support for the accusers, while Kim Cattrall – who played Samantha and already had her own, long-running tension with Parker – stayed largely outside the reboot until a brief cameo. Since then, Parker has focused on the work and skipped the back-and-forth. Noth, clearly, has not.
Sources
- On-camera interview with Chris Noth at the Blue Jacket Fashion Show in New York, published by a British tabloid on February 4, 2026.
- Joint social-media statement by Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis regarding allegations against Chris Noth, posted December 16, 2021.
- Multiple December 2021 news reports in major U.S. outlets detailing sexual-assault allegations against Chris Noth, and his formal denials in subsequent interviews through 2023.
Community question: As someone who may have loved Carrie and Big back in the day, does Noth’s ongoing public bitterness – and the serious allegations around him – change how you feel about rewatching the old show, or can you separate the character from the man?
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