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HALL OF FAME
Orange soda, anyone? Kenan (above,
right) and Kel were the inseparable BFFs
we all loved. After wrapping the fourth
season in 2000, Kenan continued in
comedy, joiningSaturday Night Livein
2003 before appearing inSnakes On A
PlaneandUnbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
Meanwhile, Kel tried his hand atDancing
With The Starslast year, before revealing
on Instagram that he’s become a youth
pastor in an unlikely career move. Talk
about a man of manytalents.Classmates-turned-stepbrothers Drake
and Josh, one a guitar-playing ladies’
man and the other an Oprah-loving
straight-A student, graced our screens
from 2004 to 2007. Riding the Drake
and Josh wave into the 2020s, both are
now 33 years old and Josh Peck (above,
left) is a YouTuber and podcaster, while
Drake Bell is pursuing his music career.
After a brief rift in 2017 when Drake
wasn’t invited to Josh’s wedding, the
two later made up at that year’s VMAs.Melissa Joan Hart shot to fame playing
the title character inClarissa Explains It
All, tackling coming-of-age-issues with
sass and sarcasm, but it was her role as
Sabrina The Teenage Witch(1996-2003)
that turned her into a household name.
Since then, she’s starred in sitcomMelissa
& Joey, a host of Christmas movies and,
most recently, the Netflix comedy seriesNo
Good Nick. Netflix launchedThe Chilling
Adventures Of Sabrinain 2018, but sadly
the OG witch (now 43) didn’t return.Starring as twins with very different lives in
Sister, Sister(1994-1999),real-life twins
Tia and Tamera Mowry continued as a
work duo, writing book seriesTwintuition
and landing their own reality-TV show,Tia
& Tamera, which ended in 2013. They’ve
since gone their separate ways: Tamera
(right) co-hosts US talk showThe Realand
Tia presents a cooking show,Tia Mowry At
Home. While rumours of aSister, Sister
reboot have fizzled, Tia still says “never
say never”. *Keeping everything crossed*Britney’s little sister Jamie Lynn Spears
stole our hearts as the titular California
boarding-school student in Zoey 101,
which ran for four seasons until 2008.
Jamie then turned her hand to country
music – releasing one solitary EP,
The Journey. Switching back to acting,
Jamie is set to appear in Netflix’s
upcoming romance drama series
Sweet Magnolias in possibly the most
anticipated resurrection since Jesus
Christ himself. Maybe...COMEDY KINGS
BESTIES TO NEMESES?
FROM SABRINA TO SITCOM TWINCEPTION
ZOEY 2020
Catapulted into the spotlight aged 13,
as the host of comedy sketch series
The Amanda Show, Amanda Bynes went
on to have success on the big screen in
She’s The Man, Hairspray and Easy A.
Bynes then took an indefinite hiatus from
acting in 2010 (and hasn’t appeared in
anything since), and endured a public
battle with addiction and depression. The
33-year-old dramatically returned in
2018 with a Paper magazine cover where
she spoke candidly about her breakdown.SHE’S THE (A)MAN(DA)
It’s 24 years since Kenan & Kel first aired on Nickelodeon. But while Kenan returns
in Trolls World Tour this month, what’s happened to your other teen idols?
The Nickelodeon
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