Amanda Bynes, Jennie Garth want ‘What I Like About You’ revival

A brand new What I Like About You simply is likely to be headed to your TV quickly, not less than if the celebs of the present have their manner.

Each Amanda Bynes and Jennie Garth, who performed the principle characters, sisters Holly and Valerie, wish to see the present revived. The WB sitcom, which initially aired from 2002 to 2006, adopted the adventures of vivacious teenager Holly (Bynes) and her older, extra accountable sister Valerie dwelling collectively in New York Metropolis after their dad moved to Japan.

Based on TMZ, Bynes is “very ” in reprising her position.

“I believe it is a terrific thought to reboot the present,” she advised the information outlet, including that she had not spoken to Garth or one other former co-star on the present, Leslie Grossman, concerning the topic. (Grossman performed Val’s buddy Lauren.)

Garth has talked about Grossman, as she’s prompt a brand new model of What I Like About You in multiple interview. On Could 19, when Yahoo Leisure requested her concerning the chance, she was enthusiastic.

“I imply, I might love that,” Garth mentioned. “That present was a lot enjoyable to make. Followers of that present are tremendous loyal. Like, it was sort of a cult following of its personal. We have been on for 4 years, and it was only a actually nice time. Nice relationships with the individuals who have been on that present, and I might love nothing greater than to revisit that, however I am not likely certain if it is within the playing cards proper now. My pricey buddy Leslie Grossman — she was on that present with me — we talked about it, and I might find it irresistible.”

On the Could 18 episode of the Behind the Velvet Rope with David Yontef podcast, Garth had mentioned Bynes could be important to the venture.

“I might wish to do the present with Amanda,” she mentioned. “I might simply wish to be sure she was in a spot the place she needed to do it.” Garth added that she and the Hairspray actress have been themselves “like sisters,” even when the cameras have been off.

Bynes really introduced her retirement from performing in 2010, however she mentioned in 2017 that she would carry out in future initiatives. And What I Like About You would, apparently, qualify as one thing she’d wish to do.

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“I miss them and would like to work with them once more,” Bynes advised TMZ of Garth and Grossman. “I do not miss performing however I cherished this present, so I would be right down to return to performing for this revival. It could be a terrific expertise to proceed the present.”

The event comes two months after Bynes was launched from a conservatorship that she had been underneath for greater than eight years. Her mom, Lynn, had overseen her medical {and professional} affairs since 2013. That is when she was hospitalized on a psychiatric maintain, following authorized hassle, which included a number of arrests, setting hearth to a Los Angeles driveway, and, in response to her dad and mom’ courtroom testimony, more and more erratic conduct.

Bynes revealed in November 2014 that she struggled with psychological well being points. Since then, she graduated from the Trend Institute of Design & Merchandising and has been handled for a relapse. Bynes and her fiancé, Paul Michael, made headlines in April when police have been known as to their house following an argument.

The actress’ final on-screen position was enjoying Marianne, the nemesis of Emma Stone’s protagonist Olive, within the 2010 comedy Simple A.