Top 10 Kid Show Scandals That Got Actors FIRED

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Published 2023-08-05
These kids shows were unlikely sources of scandals and firings. For this list, we’ll be looking at controversies surrounding several kid-friendly TV programs and the actors who lost their job on those shows as a result. Our countdown includes "The Good Night Show," "The Muppets," "Fuller House," and more! Do YOU agree with our list? Sound off in the comments!

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All Comments (21)
  • @MxCartney_Lou
    The first person is just sad….she didn’t deserve that
  • @trinaq
    Funnily enough, the original Full House had a subplot where Becky and Jesse try to get their twins into a prestigious preschool. Talk about eerily prophetic!
  • @DanGamingFan2846
    The Teletubbies scandal was just ridiculous. Creepy as they may be in hindsight, the accusations against Tinky Winky and his actor are based solelyon paranoia and bigotry, though sadly, would probably still get him fired today.
  • @marissamay8527
    Dishonorable Mentions: * Jamie Lynn Spears' Pregnancy "Zoey 101" (2005-08) - The teen actress got the show canceled for being pregnant at 16. * Fired For Being Queer "Unnamed Kids Show" - Alyson Stoner claimed they got fired from a children's show after coming out. * Cody's Final Appearance "Step By Step" (1991-98) - Sasha Mitchell was fired from the show after getting arrested for spousal abuse.
  • @trinaq
    I really hope that the child/teen actors currently involved in Disney Channel/Nickelodeon sitcoms aren't being exploited, and are being looked after well.
  • @skeldare
    Was honestly expecting to see Elmo actor Kevin Clash on the list since that was a pretty big deal at the time.
  • @kamsismith
    The ones I know about are Fuller House, Diff’rent Strokes, Pair of Kings, Jake Paul, and Andi Mack. The Andi Mack scandal was the most disturbing of all since he was around children and he was being inappropriate to children in private. Disney and other kid networks need to be mindful of who they hire for the adults so that we don't get another Dan Schnieder.
  • @SuperBoy-ps9dz
    I was sad when The Muppets got canceled on ABC, I wished that show would’ve last longer.
  • #8 was a shocker to me. Giving a pregnant actor the boot because you don't want to write her character as a teen mother? I know my mom grew up with shows like this, but there could have been a few story lines that the show could have taken on involving a pregnant teen. But what they chose wasn't it, unless the network forced them to let her go. This was also the 1970s, so I guess teenage pregnancies were looked down on with scorn, as opposed to the 1990s and 2000s where network studios were able to work around their younger actors getting pregnant. Tommy Kirk in Old Yeller looked so much like Wil Wheaton in Stand By Me, despite the movies debuting almost 30 years apart.
  • How the hell do you get fired for saying that you won't get pregnant? Scratch my head!!!
  • @victoriashore1332
    Some of these first ones are ridiculous. More “adult things” these celebrities tweeted…why would parents even let you go on Twitter if it’s a young kid show?
  • @artism9780
    0:35 The Good Night Show as a whole is a piece of lost media. Only a handful can be found on the internet, and DVDs.
  • @user-sg8ng9ur3x
    I wished Andi Mack lasted longer, but that and the Bizaardvark scandal are the only ones on this list I've heard of before watching.
  • @kale2310
    the next actor to play tinky winky passed away, I remember that being a big deal when we found out! “The actor behind the Teletubbies' Tinky Winky character froze to death, according to family members and police. Simon Shelton Barnes, 52, collapsed on a Liverpool street and died of hypothermia.”
  • @ChrisOnStage2
    Two words: Soupy Sales! You're too young to probably know about him, but he had a popular kids show back in the 60's that was wildly subversive and occasionally adult. He got in huge trouble by ending his live broadcast by encouraging his young viewers to "tiptoe into their parents' bedrooms and take those funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. presidents from their pants and pocketbooks and put them in an envelope and mail them to me and I'll send you a postcard from Puerto Rico!" And..........they did it!!
  • @keiragalaise6435
    That's sad about the Teletubby debacle. Kids don't have a problem with possibly gay characters, why should adults? That being said, maybe they could have gone with a name that's less suggestive than Tinky Winky.
  • @seanhorace925
    Surprised you guys didn't bring up: .Kevin Clash's forced resignment from Sesame Street .Northern Calloway's bad behavior- Sesame Street
  • @RayvenLunaNite
    You can always tell who the ones are that NEVER grew out of their high school or college party days and it's kinda sad.