Those who know me, know that I had such a huge thing for her. We were born in the same year so, for the most part, I was able to follow her entire career, starting with the Nickelodeon sketch comedy show, All That.
Amanda got her start on the show’s third season in 1996 and stayed on until the sixth season in 2000. She was also on the Nick game show, Figure It Out and her own comedy show, The Amanda Show, which started at the end of the decade.
She had modest success in the 2000s, starring in a number of movies along with a lead role, along with other 90s star Jennie Garth, in the WB sitcom What I Like About You. I never watched the show while on its original run but caught up pretty quickly on its reruns on ABC Family. Much like one of my new favorites, Melissa & Joey,What I Like About You used the 90s sitcom formula (filmed in front of a live studio audience of course.)
Amanda decided to retire a couple years back because she was tired of acting, it was a little surprising. How could such a talent call it quits so soon? Her comedy antics, in some circles, had been compared to Lucille Ball (High praise, probably way too high, but it’s been mentioned.)
But then the downfall.
Her tweets became bizarre and she was in the headlines for her run-ins with the law. This child star has gone, not just bad, but off the deep end, her self-destruction on blast for all of us to see.
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