Author Ashley Spencer takes us inside a kids TV empire, sharing how Miley Cyrus became the only star to get bigger than the brand and how the network avoided Nickelodeon-esque scandal: “I don’t think you could have had a Dan Schneider at Disney Channel.
Ashley Spencer’s new book, Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel ’s Tween Empire, invites us all to reminisce this way. It also served as a nostalgic opportunity for Spencer, an entertainment journalist who has written on topics like Lizzie McGuire for outlets including Vice, Vanity Fair, and—perhaps most importantly, given the book’s subject—teen magazine J-14.
” It’s interesting to hear the rationale from different parties. I grew up in the 2000s, and it was a horrible time to be a young girl in a body of any shape. I think some of the things that were happening then would not happen now, or at least would face immediate backlash. The stars’ parents—Hilary Duff’s mom, Shia LaBeouf’s father, Raven’s father, and of course Billy Ray Cyrus—all played prominent roles in their kids’ careers.
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