Hairspray co-star Nikki Blonsky supports Amanda's descision to leave Hollywood. She told DVR Playground:
Amanda is one of my dearest friends and I completely support whatever decisions she make. I’m happy for her, proud that she stood up and did what she wanted to do, and didn’t care what anybody thought! Go on girl! Enjoy retirement.
Nikki Blonsky is now starring in Huge on ABC Family. Check out the rest of the article here!
Huh? Who would've thought some of Amanda's biggest fans were football players? The Baysox will hold a tribute to Amanda at their game tonight. The party announcment:
Baysox Director of Promotions Lauren Phillips was shocked by [Amanda's retirement] announcement. "I can not believe she's retiring at 24," Phillips said. "She had such a long and incredible career in front of her. I've been a huge fan for years, there will be no replacing Amanda Bynes in pop culture."
The team promises that attendees will get free cake and can sign a retirement card to the now-former actress, can make Amanda Bynes tribute t-shirts, take part in a Bynes look-alike contest, and view career retrospective video clips.
More information on the team and game can be found here. Sounds like fun! Amanda has been invited but has not yet issued a response, according to the press release.
Website TV.com and subsequent Amanda Bynes fan, posted an article in which they discuss things they'd like to see Amanda do to rescue her career from an early (and undeserving) grave. They would like to see Amanda flourish on TV, and top suggesstions are Glee, Desparate Housewives, and How I Met Your Mother.
The New York Daily News posted an article in which her reps discussed Amanda's surprise retirement. According to her publicist, Amanda did discuss taking a break, but "sounded great" last week while doing press for Easy A.
Her publicist tells the Daily News that Bynes "sounded great" as late as last Thursday when she was doing press for her upcoming movie, "Easy A."
Melissa Raubvogel claims Bynes had said she wanted to "take some down time" but never mentioned retiring.
As for the Daily Beast's report that Bynes was fired from the Farrelly brothers film "Hall Pass," the actress' rep fervently denied it, saying her client left over a "scheduling conflict."
The author hopes Easy A will prove successful so Amanda will return to movies. Check out the rest of the article here.
Here's a bit of a brighter update in the wake of the bleak events surrounding Amanda, an Easy A production still. Here is Amanda as Marianne with Emma Stone as Olive in the upcoming fall comedy.
Look at that picture and tell me you're not going to miss that girl.
E! Online posted an article stating that Amanda was not actually fired from Hall Pass and no intervention was staged to get Amanda back on track and cure "bad behavior" as was previously reported, accoring to Amanda's reps. The article is availible here.
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Am I the only one who thinks it's about time her reps spoke up for her? I hope they're not getting paid much for doing a horrible job. Expect a statement from them next year on Amanda's retirement.
EntertainemntWeekly.com'sPopwatch section posted an article in which they tag Amanda's retirement as an "unfortunate event" and are happy they have her films She's the Man and What a Girl Wants to look back on. They suggest she write her own part and look back on possible reasons her career derailed.
The news of Amanda's retirement is trending on Yahoo News! It's also picking up press all over the internet and on the news stories. Most people are sad to see Amanda go and agree she was one of Hollywood's most promising young stars.
This site will stay up and open for anyone who wants to see Amanda's past work over her last 24 years and the 2 years this site has been opened. Anything regarding Amanda returning to Hollywood and about her upcoming movie Easy A will also be posted. Stay tuned. Hopefully this isn't really goodbye.
Even a few weeks ago when I said that this site would be going on hiatus due to frustration over Amanda leaving/getting fired from Hall Pass, I didn't think I'd say goodbye this early!
I'm terribly sad after Amanda announced her retirement on Twitter. I thought she'd be an actress to be reckoned with by time she hit her golden years. Instead, she never really got the chance. Amanda announcing her retirement is like a Hollywood death. Only this time, it's a Hollywood death of someone who has so much in them left to give and so many people who are willing to recieve it.
Amanda, we fans understand Hollywood is hard and respect your decision. We'll miss you greatly and anxiously await your return to the big or small screen. Now and always we say..."Amanda please!"
If you believe anything Amanda posts on Twitter anymore (or if anyone out there really cares) Amanda posted these today. Apparently she's done being an actress.
So, what do you think Amanda fans? Is this the end, or is Amanda going through something else?
