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Lizzie McGuire star Lalaine is recounting the rise and fall of Disney Channel in a brand new audiobook.
Based on Individuals, Lalaine, 37, who starred as Miranda Sanchez in Lizzie McGuire from 2001 to 2004, will narrate the audiobook for journalist Ashley Spencer’s new ebook, Disney Excessive: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel’s Tween Empire.
The novel, which is ready to launch on September 24, discusses how the community reinvented itself right into a “powerhouse tween community” after letting the celebrities of their Mickey Mouse Membership revival – Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Ryan Gosling and extra – slip via their fingertips. Based on the ebook’s description, Disney Excessive will characteristic tons of of interviews with former Disney executives, creatives and celebrities.
“It’s a pleasure to be part of Disney Excessive’s journey into the audiobook world,” Lalaine advised Individuals on Thursday, June 20. “I’m honored to relate this for Ashley and I’m wanting ahead to sharing these tales with followers in a complete new manner.”
One other Disney Channel success story! Hilary Duff’s breakout function on Lizzie McGuire yielded years of success for the actress that continues right now, whereas her costars selected barely completely different paths. The sitcom — starring Duff (Lizzie McGuire), Lalaine (Miranda Sanchez), Adam Lamberg (Gordo), Jake Thomas (Matt McGuire), Hallie Todd (Jo McGuire) and Robert Carradine (Sam McGuire) — aired […]
After ending her function as Hilary Duff’s greatest good friend in Lizzie McGuire, Lalaine went onto star in films corresponding to 2005’s Her Finest Transfer, 2009’s Royal Kill, 2010’s Straightforward A and 2020’s Definition Please. She additionally launched an EP, Haunted, in 2004.
Though Lizzie McGuire led to 2004, two episodes of a reboot had been filmed in 2020 earlier than Disney canceled the present as a consequence of reported points with the content material.
“She needed to be 30 years outdated doing 30-year-old issues,” Duff, 36, advised Girls’s Well being in 2022 of the failed reboot. “She didn’t should be doing bong rips and having one-night stands on a regular basis, nevertheless it needed to be genuine. I feel [the network] obtained spooked.”
In January, author Jonathan Hurwitz mentioned the reboot — and what the storyline was deliberate to be for Lalaine’s Miranda.
“We talked lots about grownup Miranda and her being a musician was a part of the dialogue, so somebody who was on tour with a band,” Hurwitz, 46, defined in a TikTok video on the time. “Her being queer was additionally a part of the dialogue, so that you probably would have met the lady that she was in a relationship with.”
Hurwitz went on to clarify that he was uncertain about Lalaine’s involvement within the canceled challenge.
“I actually don’t know if casting ever reached out to her,” he shared. “All I do know is that her supervisor and I occurred to be on the identical occasion and he got here as much as me and stated that Lalaine was open to being concerned, so I’m hopeful that we might have had her concerned.”
Whereas Lalaine has moved on from Disney Channel for essentially the most half, in 2019, she mirrored on rising up as an individual of shade in an trade that she claims “compelled” her to seem extra “white.”
“Most of my life rising up I used to be compelled to look as ‘white’ as doable. Today I battle to search out images the place I look as ethnic as doable,” she shared in an Instagram publish.
Clayton Snyder, who performed Ethan Craft on the Disney Channel collection, responded to Lalaine’s claims within the remark part.
“You had been the primary individual to open my eyes to the function of race in casting,” he wrote. “Once I requested why you didn’t use your final title. Stated it was too Hispanic. Made me unhappy.”
