Raven-Symoné
‘Child Star’ Documentary Trailer Showcases the Joys and Toll of Young Celebrity: “It Came at a Price”
“I wouldn’t end up where I am had I not made all the choices leading up to this point. But it came at a price,” Demi Lovato says at the end of the new trailer for Child Star. At a time when documentaries like Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, Showbiz Kids […]
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Raven-Symoné and Danielle Fishel Set to Direct ‘Wizards of Waverly Place’ Reboot Episodes
It’s a Disney Channel reunion! Raven-Symoné and Danielle Fishel are set to return to the channel for the Wizards of Waverly Place reboot, Wizards Beyond Waverly Place — this time as directors. The actresses, who have both had their respective shows on Disney — That’s So Raven and Girl Meets World — will step behind […]
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Demi Lovato Opened Old Wounds, Then Other Child Stars Joined In
In early April 2008, a few dozen people, including me, filed into a recording studio in midtown Manhattan to meet Disney’s “Next Big Thing.��� That was how the company introduced a then-15-year-old Demi Lovato to the world, or to roughly 30 members of the media and advertising community. The wide-eyed teen was in New York for the […]
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Demi Lovato Lines Up Drew Barrymore, JoJo Siwa, More for ‘Child Star’ Doc (Exclusive)
Demi Lovato is returning to the Disney orbit. The former child star is making her directorial debut with a buzzy documentary for Hulu, which is owned by the company that famously launched Lovato’s career. Fittingly, Child Star, as the film has been titled, examines the high highs and low lows of growing up in that […]
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Raven-Symoné Clarifies 2014 Comments About Not Considering Herself “African American”
Raven-Symoné is clarifying a headline-making comment she made in 2014. On Tuesday, the former Disney Channel star shared a new episode of her podcast Tea Time With Raven and Miranda, in which she recalled receiving hate a decade ago for telling Oprah Winfrey that she doesn’t consider herself to be “African American.” “A lot of […]
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Raven-Symoné to Receive Icon Award at 2023 Truth Awards (Exclusive)
Raven-Symoné will be honored for her decades of commitment to kids and family programming, as well as LGBTQ+ visibility during the ninth annual Truth Awards. The event, produced in association with Emmy-winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph’s D.I.V.A. Foundation and in partnership with Better Brothers Los Angeles, will take place at Hollywood’s Taglyan Cultural Complex on March […]
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Raven-Symone Says She “Got Catfished” When Asked to Join ‘The View’
Former The View hosts Raven-Symoné and Candace Cameron Bure say the way they were pitched to appear on the roundtable talk show did not align with their actual experiences once the cameras started rolling. In the most recent episode of The View: Behind the Table, the ABC News special podcast focusing on the long-running talk […]
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Raven-Symone Exiting ‘The View’ as Disney Eyes ‘That’s So Raven’ Reboot
She joined the ABC daytime show as a full-time panelist little more than a year ago.
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ABC Responds to Petition to Have Raven-Symone Removed From ‘The View’
"African-Americans and black people around the diaspora need a voice representative of their views and not a voice representative of what white people want us to say," a portion of the petition reads.
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Raven-Symone Apologizes for Remarks About “Ghetto” Names
"As an equal opportunity employer, I have never discriminated against a name ... even though I said I would, it's not true," Symone wrote on her Facebook page.
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Raven-Symone Says She Wouldn’t Hire a Person With a “Ghetto” Name
"I'm not about to hire you if your name is 'Watermelondrea.' It's just not gonna happen," she said on Friday's episode.
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‘The View’ on Oregon Shooting: Candace Cameron Bure Almost Cries, Takes Comfort in Faith
Raven-Symone and Sherri Shepherd urged people to pay attention to and have compassion for others while Michelle Collins touched gun control and the media glorifying killers.
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