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Lieve Gies (2011) Stars Behaving Badly, Feminist Media Studies, 11:3,347-361,

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Lieve Gies (2011) Stars Behaving Badly, Feminist Media Studies, 11:3,347-361,

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According to this article, celebrity downfall is simply part of the narrative of celebrity culture, which could explain why the public tolerate celebrity indiscretions. However, it also claims that there are limits to how much can be tolerated by the public. (p.357)

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Amanda Bynes has acknowledged and not completely ignored her past mistakes and made multiple apologies, trying to restore her once clean star image. The former child star notched another positive achievement with her graduation from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in June 2018 and announced her engagement to Paul Michael in 2020.

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Amanda Bynes Apologizes for Calling Celebrities Ugly

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On getting back into acting and looking forward to the future: "I have no fear of the future. I've been through the worst and came out the other end and survived it so I just feel like it's only up from here."

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On her sporadic tweets: "I'm really ashamed and embarrassed with the things I said. And I'm so sorry to whoever I hurt and whoever I lied about because it truly eats away at me. It makes me feel so horrible and sick to my stomach and sad. Everything I worked my whole life to achieve, I kind of ruined it all through Twitter. It's definitely not Twitter's fault — it's my own fault."

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On what happened after she decided to quit acting: "I just had no purpose in life." " I would 'wake and bake' and literally be stoned all day long. [I started] hanging out with a seedier crowd and I isolated a lot . . . I got really into my drug usage and it became a really dark, sad world for me."

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In this interview, 32-year-old Amanda shows an honest, empathetic, and optimistic side while opening up about her early days in the acting business, her struggles with depression and substance abuse, and the advice she'd give to those facing similar battles.

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Bynes, who was once admired for being a beautiful, witty, and endearing young actress, not only looks but sounds unrecognizable during these episodes.

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Bynes posted an alarming video on her Instagram story recently saying that she was afraid of her fiancé and that he had stopped taking his medication. She went on to say that he vandalized his mom’s home, put salmon under her bed, and that she found his secret stash of crack cocaine which he has been using for the past six months. Not much is known about Paul Michael other than they met in rehab.

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Amanda Bynes claimed in a multi-part Instagram Story early on Thursday that her fiance Paul Michael "stopped taking his medications" and has been using drugs in secret.

"Paul told me that he stopped taking his medications. I looked at his phone and he was looking at mom-and-son porn. He vandalised his mom's home," she told her followers, the New York Postreports.

"He broke all of her pictures and put salmon under her bed," she continued. "His behaviour's alarming, and I'm afraid of what he'll do."

The Easy A actress, 36, closed out her videos by adding that she "forgot to mention" she allegedly "found Paul's stash of crack cocaine".

"He's been using for the past six months," she claimed. "He needs serious help. I kicked him out of my house."

Bynes' lawyer didn't immediately return Page Six 's request for comment.

Michael, who met the star in Alcoholics Anonymous, took to his own Instagram account soon after to say he did not know "what the f**k she's talking about".

"Y'all gotta stop talking your sh*t. ... You guys don't f***ing know anything," he added.

The She's the Man star's conservatorship ended in March after nearly nine years.

"In the last several years, I have been working hard to improve my health so that I can live and work independently, and I will continue to prioritise my wellbeing in this next chapter," she said in a statement to People after the ruling.

"I am excited about my upcoming endeavours - including my fragrance line - and look forward to sharing more when I can," she added.

Days later, Bynes' lawyer said she was gearing up for the future with Michael.

"She's doing very well and looking forward to moving in her property with [fiance] Paul," David Esquibias told People. "They're actively searching for furniture and she's excited about all of it.

"She's ecstatic to receive her parents' full love and support behind her decision to terminate the conservatorship," he added.
This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission

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Amanda Bynes claimed in a multi-part Instagram Story early on Thursday that her fiance Paul Michael "stopped taking his medications" and has been using drugs in secret. "Paul told me that he stopped taking his medications. I looked at his phone and he was looking at mom-and-son porn.

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Many people in the Free Britney movement began to throw their support behind Bynes.

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With Britney Spears finally seeing her controversial conservatorship coming to an end, some supporters of the #FreeBritney movement say that #FreeAmanda is next on the agenda. Since 2008, Spears had been in an involuntary conservatorship with her father Jamie acting as her conservator. In more recent years, there has been a movement to free Britney from this conservatorship, and its support grew exponentially when Hulu debuted the popular doc Framing Britney Spears in February.

On Wednesday, Spears won big in court when Britney's dad Jamie was removed as conservator of her estate. Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, Britney Spears is already planning her life outside of the conservatorship with plans to move into a new home with fiance Sam Asghari. It's good news for the #FreeBritney supporters whose consistent campaigning for Spears likely helped drive toward this outcome.

Now, some of those who got involved with the movement are setting their sights on doing the same for Amanda Bynes. Outside of the L.A. courthouse where the big ruling was made, several of Britney's supporters were interviewed by TMZ and were asked about what they might be doing next. The response among them was reportedly unanimous with various Britney fans now saying that #FreeAmanda is the on the horizon.

" Conservatorship reform does not stop with Britney. There are so many other people in the United States who have been abused by the conservatorship system," one person said. "But as far as celebrities, Amanda Bynes has been in a conservatorship. She was put into a conservatorship at the age of 26. Britney Spears was also put into a conservatorship at the age of 26... so there's definitely going to be some type of hype or interest in Amanda's situation."

Another Britney supporter said, "We have to free Amanda Bynes next. She's in a conservatorship of justice, the same as Britney's. Her situation is a little different... Hers is definitely not as mainstream as Britney is, so I think we should definitely help her."

In 2013, Amanda Bynes was detained by cops after the former child star allegedly started a fire in a neighbor's driveway. Her mother was granted a temporary conservatorship over Bynes after she was given a mental health evalutation. After making a series of disturbing tweets alleging abuse by her father, comments she later retracted and attributed to a "microchip" in her brain, Bynes' mother was again granted conservatorship. Bynes soon after revealed she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Amanda Bynes also said in 2018 she had previously struggled with addiction, but had been sober for four years with the help of her parents. As she told Paper magazine, "My advice to anyone who is struggling with substance abuse would be to be really careful because drugs can really take a hold of your life... It really made me a completely different person. I actually am a nice person. I would never feel, say or do any of the things that I did and said to the people I hurt on Twitter."

She added, "There are gateway drugs and thankfully I never did heroin or meth or anything like that but certain things that you think are harmless, they may actually affect you in a more harmful way. Be really, really careful because you could lose it all and ruin your entire life like I did."

Bynes' mother remains her conservator. Last month, a judge ruled that this conservatorship will remain in place until at least 2023. While a return to acting doesn't seem to be in the cards for Amanda at this time, she has since graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising and has recently dabbled in rap music. News of #FreeBritney fans turning to Bynes comes to us from TMZ.

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Free Britney Supporters Turn to Amanda Bynes for Next Movement

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With Britney Spears finally seeing her controversial conservatorship coming to an end, some supporters of the #FreeBritney movement say that #FreeAmanda is next on the agenda. Since 2008, Spears had been in an involuntary conservatorship with her father Jamie acting as her conservator.

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Bynes has mostly stayed out of the spotlight in recent years and for good reason. Her conservatorship has been extended throughout the years before it officially came to an end in 2022 after 9 years. Things seemed to be looking up for Bynes in recent years, even giving an exclusive interview where she announced her intention to return to acting, but that day never came.

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Former actress and child star Amanda Bynes has had her nine-year conservatorship terminated by a judge.

Bynes, 35, star of films including She's The Man, Hairspray, What A Girl Wants and Easy A in the 2000s, was placed under a legal guardianship - similar to Britney Spears - in 2013.

The conservatorship was put in place following what she had previously described as a dark period in her life.

Bynes' petition for termination stated that she has consistently tested negative for illicit substances, has managed her mental health and that her psychiatrist has asserted she has the "capacity to give informed consent to any form of medical treatment", Sky News' US partner NBC reports.

Since 2020, she has lived in a "structured community for women" where she has been able to maintain an "independent" lifestyle and have regular check-ins with a case manager.
'Excited about my upcoming endeavours'
A judge in California has now dissolved the arrangement, with the support of her parents Lynn and Rick Bynes.

This means the end of a personal conservatorship; a conservatorship of the estate had already been terminated in 2017 after her assets were moved into a trust.

Following the ruling, Bynes released a statement through her attorney, David Esquibias, thanking both her fans and her parents for their support.
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"In the last several years, I have been working hard to improve my health so that I can live and work independently, and I will continue to prioritise my wellbeing in this next chapter," she said. "I am excited about my upcoming endeavours - including my fragrance line - and look forward to sharing more when I can."

Tamar Arminak, lawyer for Bynes' parents, said Lynn Bynes "could not be more proud of what Amanda has accomplished getting through the last few difficult years".

He added: "Both mother and daughter I know are happy to restart a relationship that doesn't include this conservatorship and focus on the endless possibilities available to Amanda now that the conservatorship is over."
Judge praises Bynes as agreement is dissolved
Ventura Superior Court Judge Roger L Lund had previously said that evidence presented to the court showed that "grounds for establishment of a conservatorship of the person no longer exist".

He said during the latest hearing that Bynes' had done everything the court has asked of her during the process.

"Congratulations to Ms Bynes and good luck... fantastic job, everyone," the judge said at the end of the hearing.

Bynes is now studying at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles.

In a brief Instagram video posted weeks prior to her hearing, she thanked fans for all their "love and support".

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Amanda Bynes conservatorship: Judge ends star's Britney Spears-style legal arrangement after nine years

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Star of films including She's The Man, Hairspray and Easy A, Amanda Bynes was placed under a conservatorship in 2013, following what she had previously described as a dark period in her life. A judge in California has now dissolved the arrangement, with the support of her parents.

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Bynes was again placed on a 5150 psychiatric hold for 72 hours, and her mother was awarded a conservatorship over her daughter for the second time. Bynes announced on Twitter that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and manic depression.

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Amanda Bynes may finally be getting the help she needs.

Following a tumultuous week in New York, the troubled actress was hospitalized on an involuntary psychiatric hold in Los Angeles on Friday, TMZ reports.

Bynes' hospitalization came less than 24 hours after she posted a disturbing Twitter rant against her father, Rick Bynes - which she later retracted - claiming he had sexually, physically and verbally abused her. Bynes blamed the accusations on a "microchip" in her brain.

According to TMZ, doctors placed the 28-year-old on a 5150 psychiatric hold for 72 hours. It can be extended for two weeks.

Putting another conservatorship in place is also a priority, the website reports. Bynes lived with her parents until a court-ordered conservatorship ran out last month.

Bynes was hospitalized soon after landing at LAX Airport, plans her parents arranged. Bynes reportedly believed a car service would drive her to The London Hotel, where she'd meet her parents and their lawyer, but instead was brought to a Pasadena, California, hospital.

In July 2013, Bynes was hospitalized on a 5150 psychiatric hold after allegedly setting a fire in an elderly woman's driveway.

Bynes' life had appeared to be on an upward swing in recent months, following her public meltdown and stint in court-ordered rehab.

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Amanda Bynes may finally be getting the help she needs. Following a tumultuous week in New York, the troubled actress was hospitalized on an involuntary psychiatric hold in Los Angeles on Friday, TMZ reports.

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The very same day, she tweeted “My dad never did any of those things. The microchip in my brain made me say those things but he's the one that ordered them to microchip me.” It was also in 2014 that she was kicked out of FIDM for allegedly showing up high to class and for cheating.

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Amanda Bynes kicked out of fashion school amid allegations of 'cheating and turning up high on drugs'

It was thought she was getting her life back on track following a tough few years which saw her face legal troubles before being placed on an involuntary hold psychiatric hold in July 2013.

But after Amanda Bynes was arrested on suspicion of DUI on Sunday, with TMZ reporting she was under the influence of Adderall at the time, things started quickly falling apart for the troubled former child star.

TMZ now claims the aspiring designer has been kicked out of the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Irvine, California, with one former classmate alleging Amanda, 28, often turned up high on marijuana and paid some of her fellow students to do her homework for her.

Rachel Loritz told the website: 'She was clearly high, and not good at hiding it she almost always wore sunglasses and laughed out loud at inappropriate times.'

Ms Loritz added that she turned down Amanda's offer to pay her for doing her work but some students accepted.

Multiple sources told TMZ that Amanda was kicked out of the school in September.

MailOnline has contacted Amanda's representative for comment.

Meanwhile, according to TMZ, the troubled Easy A star had taken Adderall, the doctor-prescribed psychostimulant, before she was pulled over by police in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles on Sunday.

The website reports that Amanda was 'out of it', failing multiple field sobriety tests and eventually being taken into custody following her 4 am stop.

Her police stop in Van Nuys and subsequent arrest were confirmed to MailOnline by the California Highway Patrol.

Amanda was cited for being under the influence of a controlled substance while driving her Mercedes-Benz and released at 12 noon that same day on $15,000 bail.

The former child star is set to appear in court on October 23 in Van Nuys.

Law enforcement sources told TMZ the She's The Man actress was on drugs, specifically marijuana, but this has not yet been confirmed.

The former child star was booked at the Los Angeles Police Department's Van Nuys division on a misdemeanour DUI.

The brunette movie and TV star had been living with her parents Lynn and Rick in a LA suburb as she has dealt with several legal problems from the past few years. She was last seen in public in June.

In early September Amanda was released from her conservatorship and moved out of her parents' house. She now lives in an apartment in Orange County.

Once she started living on her own, that's when things started to go 'haywire,' according to a source.

The arrest is causing a legal problem because Amanda is on probation for a reckless conviction from last February.

Amanda's legal troubles began in March 2012 when she was pulled over and ticketed by police for talking on a cell phone while driving.

One month later the Family Guy star was arrested and charged with a DUI after side-swiping a police car in West Hollywood.

Then in September the Thousand Oaks native was charged for two alleged hit and run incidents, one occurring in April and the other in August. The charges were dismissed three months later, however.

Her DUI charged was also dropped in February 2014 but she was placed on probation.

When she moved to New York City in 2013 the Hairspray star started displaying some odd behaviour. In May she was arrested at her apartment for criminal possession of marijuana, attempted tampering with evidence, and reckless endangerment.

She was also accused of throwing a bong out the window of her dwelling which was located on the 36th floor.

The Maxim cover girl then went under psychiatric evaluation and eventually (June 2014) the case was dismissed.

Things got worse when she returned to LA. In July 2014 she was detained after trying to set fire to a neighbor's driveway.

Bynes was then put on a 5150 mental health evaluation hold and her parents filed a conservatorship. Treatment at a Malibu facility followed.

'Amanda currently is on zero medication,' her attorney Tamar Arminak said in a statement to Us Weekly in April. 'She's devoted to living her life as healthy as possible. Her family is closely involved with her day-to-day life, but they try to give her as much autonomy as possible.'

AMANDA BYNES: TIMELINE

*Retires from acting, aged 24, saying 'I don't love acting anymore. She unretires a few weeks later.

*Arrested after a minor fender bender involving a stopped police car in West Hollywood, California in the early hours of the morning. She reportedly refused a breathalyser or blood alcohol test.

*Just four days later, she crashes into another car on the Los Angeles freeway and reportedly flees the scene

*Uses Twitter account in an attempt to persuade Barack Obama to intervene in her DUI case: 'Hey @BarackObama... I don't drink. Please fire the cop who arrested me. I also don't hit and run. The end.'

*Rear ends a female motorist on Ventura Boulevard

*Is formally charged with two counts of hit-and-run from the June and August incidents and pleads not guilty.

*A day later, she is pulled out for driving with a suspended licence.

*Continuing to behave erratically, she is kicked out of a Los Angeles spin class. However, she tells People.com she is 'doing amazing' in the wake of the latest charges and claims to be moving to New York City where she plans to start a fashion line.

*Threatens to sue a U.S. magazine for alleging she walked around a New York tanning salon naked save for a pair of goggles. 'I'm not "troubled", she declared. 'I don't get naked in public. I'm 26, a multimillionaire, retired. Please respect my privacy.'

*Tweets that she wants R&B star Drake to 'murder my vagina'

*Insists that photographs showing her walking around New York City with cheek piercings and a pink wig are of someone pretending to be her. 'My hair is blonde, I've never been a redhead!' she tweets. 'Somebody keeps posing as me! Check my photos on Twitter for up to date pictures!'

*Partially shaves her head

*Tells InTouch magazine she has 'no clue' why people say she's insane. 'Every time I've heard it, it came from an ugly person's mouth, so I don't care,' she says, adding she is 'allergic to alcohol' and 'can't wait to start working on an album.'

*Claims via Twitter she had a nose job a few years prior to 'remove skin that was like a webbing in between my eyes.'

*In a seemingly unprovoked attack, she tweets Rihanna: 'Chris Brown beat you because you're not pretty enough. No one wants to be your lover so you call everyone and their mother that I almost named my new dog Rihanna.' Rihanna fires back: 'Ya see what happens when they cancel intervention?'

*Is sentenced to three years of summary probation after pleading no contest to driving with a suspended license.

*Arrested for allegedly throwing a glass bong out of her 36th floor apartment window in New York City. Is taken to hospital for psychiatric evaluation. Appears in court wearing a platinum wig and claims the bong was a vase.

*Is placed on a 5150 involuntary psychiatric hold after reportedly starting a fire in a stranger's driveway in Thousand Oaks, California.

*A Los Angeles judge grants her parents temporary conservatorship over her affairs and the psychiatric hold is extended for 30 days.

*Is released from her conservatorship and moves out of her parents' home and into an apartment in Orange County.

*Is pulled over in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood on Sunday at 4am and taken into custody. Cited for being under the influence of a controlled substance while driving her Mercedes-Benz.

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Amanda Bynes kicked out of fashion school last month

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TMZ now claims the aspiring designer has been kicked out of the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Irvine, California, with one former classmate alleging Amanda, 28, often turned up high on marijuana and paid some of her fellow students to do her homework for her.

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Things appeared to be looking up for Bynes when she was released from her hospitalization in 2014. She moved back in with her parents, and she even enrolled in The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM).

However, people became concerned again when she was arrested for another DUI and made a series of allegations against her own father, claiming that he verbally, physically, and sexually abused her and said she would try to record things he did as evidence to get him thrown in jail and that she wants to get a restraining order against him.

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In a series of tweets today, Amanda Bynes hurled accusations at her father, saying that he was "verbally and physically" abusive towards her when she was a child. The rant came just as TMZ reported that Bynes fled New York City when she heard that her parents were heading to there to try to get her into a mental health facility.

The tweets, which are very disturbing, are below:

My dad was verbally and physically abuse to me as a child
- amanda bynes (@amandabynes) October 10, 2014

I need to tell the truth about my dad
- amanda bynes (@amandabynes) October 10, 2014

He called me ugly as a child and then asked me if I wanted to have sex with him and i did not know how to respond and I said no and then
- amanda bynes (@amandabynes) October 10, 2014

I was forced to live with my dad which was a total nightmare
- amanda bynes (@amandabynes) October 10, 2014

My dad fondled himself in front of me so many times that i started recording him on my phone in hopes of catching him
- amanda bynes (@amandabynes) October 10, 2014

saying or doing something inappropriate around me so I could get him arrested & put in jail for the rest of his perverted life
- amanda bynes (@amandabynes) October 10, 2014

My mom knows that my father's literally and physically incestual towards his own daughter and the fact that she never called the police on
- amanda bynes (@amandabynes) October 10, 2014

Him embarrasses me to no end
- amanda bynes (@amandabynes) October 10, 2014

So, today I am meeting with a lawyer to get a restraining order against my dad
- amanda bynes (@amandabynes) October 10, 2014

I cannot hear the sound of His incestually charged voice ever again and I'm just being honest
- amanda bynes (@amandabynes) October 10, 2014

I will not be manipulated or brainwashed by anyone anymore
- amanda bynes (@amandabynes) October 10, 2014

So let me live my own life free of unhappiness and misery
- amanda bynes (@amandabynes) October 10, 2014

So call me what you want but please do not call me crazy or insane because that's a joke
- amanda bynes (@amandabynes) October 10, 2014

UPDATE: Bynes tweeted this hours after the rant:

My dad never did any of those things The microchip in my brain made me say those things but he's the one that ordered them to microchip me
- amanda bynes (@amandabynes) October 10, 2014

Bynes' mother, Lynne Bynes also told TMZ, "Rick has been the best father and husband a family can ask for. These allegations stem from Amanda's mental state at the moment. They have no basis in reality."

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Amanda Bynes Is Accusing Her Father of Sexual Abuse on Twitter Right Now (Update)

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In a series of tweets today, Amanda Bynes hurled accusations at her father, saying that he was "verbally and physically" abusive towards her when she was a child. The rant came just as TMZ reported that Bynes fled New York City when she heard that her parents were heading to there to try to get her into a mental health facility.

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Bynes has spoken about her use of recreational drugs like marijuana, molly ecstasy, and Adderall, she says she faked the symptoms of ADD to get prescribed so she could lose weight.

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Her Twitter rants were incoherent and did not sound like the same Amanda we used to know. She appeared with a much more disheveled appearance, rocking a matted blonde wig and dermal piercings. Bynes also surgically altered her appearance by getting a few plastic surgery procedures done and constantly tweeted about how she needed to improve her appearance. She said on Twitter that she has an eating disorder so she struggles to stay thin.

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Amanda Bynes, who rose to fame as a child actress with the Nickelodeon sketch comedy series All That, has often opened up about her liking for plastic surgery.

According to the Los Angeles Times, even her parents, Rick and Lynn Bynes, talked through how their daughter was obsessed with getting under the knife at the Ventura County court back in July 2013.

Amanda Bynes Reportedly Felt 'Ugly' without Plastic Surgery

Speaking at that time, Bynes' parents admitted that the actress had severe "body image" issues while adding she felt she and others were "ugly" without the plastic surgery.

They also recalled other few instances when her obsession with plastic surgery "deeply concerned" them.

The former actress' parents revealed Bynes once called her young niece "ugly" on Twitter.

Additionally, they noted she talked "incessantly about cosmetic surgeries that she wants" and also "received large doctor bills."

And after she moved to New York, they said she had started spending large amounts of cash.

According to them, she approximately had $4 million in savings but spent about $1.2 million in a short time, with many checks written out to cash.

In June and July 2013 alone, she withdrew $100,000 from her accounts - all in cash.

Amanda Bynes Wanted a Whole Face Plastic Surgery

In 2013, The Amanda Show star shared that she wanted to have plastic surgery on her whole face.

She took to her Twitter and wrote, "I plan of having surgery on my whole face straight up."

She also added, "I love surgery."

A few days later, she updated her fans through another tweet that she needed to wait until next week for surgery since her surgeon could not perform it the following day.

Besides, Bynes admitted she had a nose job done several years ago that year.

Hence, she hated when online tabloids used her old pictures rather than her new pictures, in which she claimed to look "so much prettier."

In her May 5, 2013, tweet, which has since been deleted, she wrote:

Intouch [magazine] used a photo from years ago on their cover and I hate it! The reason I've asked all magazines and blogs to stop using old photos of me is I don't look like that anymore! I had a nose job to remove skin that was like a webbing in between my eyes. I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I look so much prettier in my new photos that I don't want old photos used anymore!

In that tweet, she even claimed that she was more confident after having surgery.

The 'She's the Man' Star Suffered from a Mental Health Problem

It turns out Bynes wasn't just obsessed with plastic surgery but also had addiction issues and suffered from a mental health problem.

Because of those reasons, she was regularly reported performing weird activities, including multiple road accidents, a string of arrests, and constant changes in her physical looks.

In 2013, her parents also knocked on the doors of the court, seeking a legal conservatorship to manage her issues.

But according to People's report in April 2021, the former actress' lawyer David A. Esquibias stated she was doing great mentally after a long meditation period.

Bynes also released a rap song titled 'Diamonds' in January this year.

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Amanda Bynes Once Wanted Plastic Surgery on Her Entire Face

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Amanda Bynes, who rose to fame as a child actress with the Nickelodeon sketch comedy series All That, has often opened up about her liking for plastic surgery. According to the Los Angeles Times, even her parents, Rick and Lynn Bynes, talked through how their daughter was obsessed with getting under the knife at the Ventura County court back in July 2013.

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Threatened to sue any tabloids that published unflattering photos of her and talked about her mental state.

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Insight into public/fan's reaction to Amanda Bynes' posts on Twitter. There is lots of negativity and disbelief towards her behaviour. This shows the contrast between the way the public viewed her at the start of her career versus now.

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Fan outrage as Amanda Bynes rants on Twitter that her shaved head makes her ‘feel like a cancer patient’

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Her insensitive comment was retweeted over two thousand times as she was blasted by followers

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Amanda Bynes posting provocative twitter rows, topless selfies and her multiple arrests has led to her star image being greatly damaged. The teen star once known for her cute, kiddie-friendly films with a once-shiny acting career is now becoming better known for her disturbing behaviour.

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Photos from Amanda Bynes' Sexy Twitpic Selfies - E! Online

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Photos from Amanda Bynes' Sexy Twitpic Selfies

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Dressing the Girl / Playing the Boy: "Twelfth Night" Learns Soccer on the Set of "She's The Man"

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Dressing the Girl / Playing the Boy: "Twelfth Night" Learns Soccer on the Set of "She's The Man"

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This source suggests She's The Man constantly reminds the audience of Viola's dual role as girl-boy. Viola (Amanda Bynes) undergoes numerous wardrobe changes as a result of her dual existence as both Viola and Sebastian.
To signal her role-playing, Bynes' performance as Viola/Sebastian heavily relies on gendered codes of body language and speech patterns. These simultaneously deployed strategies for marking gender might blur categories of difference by suggesting an easy oscillation between socially constructed ideals of feminine and masculine.
These blurred lines between feminitiy and masculinity could have led to Amanda Bynes' depression and how she "didn't like how she looked as a boy".

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Starts showing erratic behaviour. - Makes racist remarks about Rihanna and claims NYPD sexually harassed her.

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Video Bynes: 'I'm Suing Them All for This Upsetting Nightmare'

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After her NY arrest the actress claimed police illegally entered her apartment and sexually harassed.

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While Bynes disappeared completely from our screens, the former child star also began chronicling every aspect of her life on her Twitter feed.

On a daily basis, Byne's "crazy" tweets were chronicled in 'funny lists' online. Instead of being sympathetic to Bynes' obvious struggles with mental health, tabloids continued to run derogatory stories about the former star.

Unlike the breakdowns of former child stars, like Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears, Bynes' fall from grace played out entirely in the public eye. We watched second by second as her increasingly questionable tweets rolled in.

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Legal troubles and mental health issues landed her in a conservatorship in 2013. Her mother, Lynn, was granted conservatorship of the 26-year-old actress

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Actress Amanda Bynes was convicted Monday of reckless driving in April 2012 when she crashed into an L.A. County sheriff's deputy's cruiser.

Her no-contest plea was entered by her attorney, Richard Hutton, a renowned expert on driving-under-the-influence cases.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Edward Moreton sentenced the "She's the Man" star to three years of probation and three months of alcohol education classes, said Jane Robison, an L.A. County district attorney's spokeswoman.
PHOTOS: Amanda Bynes through the years
The charge known as "wet reckless" is among the lowest offenses prosecutors can allow a suspect to plea in a driving-under-the-influence case.

In the wake of her 2012 arrest, Bynes had several run-ins with law enforcement in Los Angeles and New York that culminated with her setting a fire in the driveway of a Thousand Oaks home and being taken into custody on a mental health hold last year by the Ventura County Sheriff's Department.

In the aftermath, Bynes entered a psychiatric treatment facility, and her mother, Lynn, was granted conservatorship of the 26-year-old actress. In recent months, Bynes has been attending college classes in design while continuing treatment.

Bynes was arrested April 6, 2012, on suspicion of DUI after she clipped a sheriff's deputy's cruiser while trying to pass it about 3 a.m. near Robertson and Santa Monica boulevards. Bynes refused to take a sobriety test.

She is already on probation in California for driving with a suspended license and was accused in New York of throwing a glass bong out her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment.
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Amanda Bynes convicted of reckless driving in 2012 incident

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Actress Amanda Bynes was convicted Monday of reckless driving in April 2012 when she crashed into an L.A. County sheriff's deputy's cruiser. Her no-contest plea was entered by her attorney, Richard Hutton, a renowned expert on driving-under-the-influence cases.

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After receiving treatment, Bynes appeared to be trying to turn her life around. In September, Bynes was arrested for driving under the influence. She was charged with a misdemeanor and released after posting a bail amount of $15,000.

Bynes's troubles seemed to escalate after that incident. On October 10, Bynes was placed on psychiatric hold at a hospital in Pasadena, California.

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Amanda Bynes arrested for a DUI after being stopped at 4 am... was cited as under the influence of a 'controlled substance' then released on $15,000 bail

Amanda Bynes was pulled over at 4 am on Sunday morning in Los Angeles

The 28-year-old She's The Man actress was arrested for a DUI

She was cited as being under the influence of a 'controlled substance'

By 12 noon on Sunday the Easy A star was released on $15,000 bail

Her conservatorship ended earlier this month and she was living on her own

She got her first DUI in 2012 and is still on probation

Amanda Bynes has been arrested for a DUI again.

The troubled Easy A actress was pulled over in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles on Sunday at 4 am and taken into custody, the California Highway Patrol confirmed with MailOnline.

She was cited for being under the influence of a controlled substance while driving her Mercedes-Benz. The 28-year-old star was released at 12 noon that same day on $15,000 bail.

The former child star is set to appear in court on October 23 in Van Nuys.

Law enforcement sources told TMZ the She's The Man actress was on drugs, specifically marijuana, but the CHP has yet to confirm this.

The former child star was booked at the Los Angeles Police Department's Van Nuys division on a misdemeanor DUI.

The brunette movie and TV star had been living with her parents Lynn and Rick in a LA suburb as she has dealt with several legal problems from the past few years. She was last seen in public in June.

In early September Amanda was released from her conservatorship and moved out of her parents' house. She now lives in an apartment in Orange County.

Once she started living on her own, that's when things started to go 'haywire,' according to a source.

The arrest is causing a legal problem because Bynes is on probation for a reckless conviction from last February.

The Sydney White actress was taking fashion design classes at the Fashion Institute Of Design And Merchandising in Irvine, California, earlier this year and seemed to be in good health.

Amanda's legal troubles began in March 2012 when she was pulled over and ticketed by police for talking on a cell phone while driving.

One month later the Family Guy star was arrested and charged with driving a DUI after side-swiping a police car in West Hollywood.

Then in September the Thousand Oaks native was charged for two alleged hit and run incidents, one occurring in April and the other in August. The charges were dismissed three months later, however.

Her DUI charged was also dropped in February 2014 but she was placed on probation.

When she moved to New York City in 2013 the Hairspray star started displaying some odd behavior. In May she was arrested at her apartment for criminal possession of marijuana, attempted tampering with evidence, and reckless endangerment.

She was also accused of throwing a bong out the window of her dwelling which was located on the 36th floor.

The Maxim cover girl then went under psychiatric evaluation and eventually (June 2014) the case was dismissed.

Things got worse when she returned to LA. In July 2013 she was detained after trying to set fire to a neighbor's driveway.

Bynes was then put on a 5150 mental health evaluation hold and her parents filed a conservatorship. Treatment at a Malibu facility followed.

'Amanda currently is on zero medication,' her attorney Tamar Arminak said in a statement to UsWeekly in April. 'She's devoted to living her life as healthy as possible. Her family is closely involved with her day-to-day life, but they try to give her as much autonomy as possible.'

AMANDA BYNES: TIMELINE

*Retires from acting, aged 24, saying 'I don't love acting anymore. She unretires a few weeks later.

*Arrested after a minor fender bender involving a stopped police car in West Hollywood, California in the early hours of the morning. She reportedly refused a breathalyser or blood alcohol test.

*Just four days later, she crashes into another car on the Los Angeles freeway and reportedly flees the scene

*Uses Twitter account in an attempt to persuade Barack Obama to intervene in her DUI case: 'Hey @BarackObama... I don't drink. Please fire the cop who arrested me. I also don't hit and run. The end.'

*Rear ends a female motorist on Ventura Boulevard

*Is formally charged with two counts of hit-and-run from the June and August incidents and pleads not guilty.

*A day later, she is pulled out for driving with a suspended licence.

*Continuing to behave erratically, she is kicked out of a Los Angeles spin class. However, she tells People.com she is 'doing amazing' in the wake of the latest charges and claims to be moving to New York City where she plans to start a fashion line.

*Threatens to sue a U.S. magazine for alleging she walked around a New York tanning salon naked save for a pair of goggles. 'I'm not "troubled", she declared. 'I don't get naked in public. I'm 26, a multimillionaire, retired. Please respect my privacy.'

*Tweets that she wants R&B star Drake to 'murder my vagina'

*Insists that photographs showing her walking around New York City with cheek piercings and a pink wig are of someone pretending to be her. 'My hair is blonde, I've never been a redhead!' she tweets. 'Somebody keeps posing as me! Check my photos on Twitter for up to date pictures!'

*Partially shaves her head

*Tells InTouch magazine she has 'no clue' why people say she's insane. 'Every time I've heard it, it came from an ugly person's mouth, so I don't care,' she says, adding she is 'allergic to alcohol' and 'can't wait to start working on an album.'

*Claims via Twitter she had a nose job a few years prior to 'remove skin that was like a webbing in between my eyes.'

*In a seemingly unprovoked attack, she tweets Rihanna: 'Chris Brown beat you because you're not pretty enough. No one wants to be your lover so you call everyone and their mother that I almost named my new dog Rihanna.' Rihanna fires back: 'Ya see what happens when they cancel intervention?'

*Is sentenced to three years of summary probation after pleading no contest to driving with a suspended license.

*Arrested for allegedly throwing a glass bong out of her 36th floor apartment window in New York City. Is taken to hospital for psychiatric evaluation. Appears in court wearing a platinum wig and claims the bong was a vase.

*Is placed on a 5150 involuntary psychiatric hold after reportedly starting a fire in a stranger's driveway in Thousand Oaks, California.

*A Los Angeles judge grants her parents temporary conservatorship over her affairs and the psychiatric hold is extended for 30 days.

*Is released from her conservatorship and moves out of her parents' home and into an apartment in Orange County.

*Is pulled over in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood on Sunday at 4am and taken into custody. Cited for being under the influence of a controlled substance while driving her Mercedes-Benz.

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Amanda Bynes 'arrested for a DUI after being stopped at 4 am

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Amanda Bynes was pulled over at 4 am on Sunday morning in Los Angeles The 28-year-old She's The Man actress was arrested for a DUI She was cited as being under the influence of a 'controlled substance' By 12 noon on Sunday the Easy A star was released on $15,000 bail Her conservatorship ended earlier this month and she was living on her own She got her first DUI in 2012 and is still on probation Amanda Bynes has been arrested for a DUI again.

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The troubled performer again found herself under psychiatric observation that July. She had reportedly started a fire near the driveway of a home in Thousand Oaks, California. Local authorities investigated the incident and decided to bring Bynes in custody. She was placed on a psychiatric hold, known as a "5150," which allowed the actress to be detained for 72 hours in a mental health facility. A judge agreed to extend her stay and give her parents temporary guardianship of their daughter. Bynes then spent time in a rehabilitation center.

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Victim of Fire Allegedly Started by Amanda Bynes Hopes Actress ‘Gets Some Help’

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Bonnie Braaten tells PEOPLE she doesn’t know “anyone who would be angry with me enough to set a fire in my driveway”

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More trouble with the law in May 2013. She was taken into custody after she reportedly was seen smoking marijuana in the lobby of her New York City apartment building and later allegedly threw a bong out of her apartment window.

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2012 was defined by a series of arrests for Amanda Bynes – drink driving, 2 hit and runs and driving on a suspended license. In total, she had 7 car accidents in 2012.

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Actress Amanda Bynes has been charged with two misdemeanor hit-and-run counts, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles city attorney's office said Wednesday.

The 26-year-old star was allegedly involved in incidents on April 10 and August 4.

The charges follow an April 6 incident in which Bynes was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after her vehicle allegedly struck an officer's vehicle. She pleaded not guilty in that case, according to reports.

At the time, her father, Rick Bynes, told People magazine that the actress hadn't been drinking.

If convicted on the hit-and-run charges, the "Easy A" star faces a maximum sentence of up to six months in jail and/or a $1,000 fine for each count, said city attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan. The charges were filed Tuesday.

Bynes, who starred in the TV series "What I Like About You," is due in Van Nuys Superior Court on September 27.

Bynes' representatives did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.

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Actress Amanda Bynes has been charged with two misdemeanor hit-and-run counts, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles city attorney's office said Wednesday. The 26-year-old star was allegedly involved in incidents on April 10 and August 4. The charges follow an April 6 incident in which Bynes was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after her vehicle allegedly struck an officer's vehicle.

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• Potential for interaction between star and audience (authentic voice to audiences)

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• Potential for interaction between star and audience (authentic voice to audiences)

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It is presumed that stars author their own tweets and this article suggests that "tweets may offer something more authentic than traditional star-fan interactions, but they too remain an embodied and self-reflexive performance of the self" (Thomas, 2014). By twitter being the first place Amanda Bynes announced her retirement, she reinforced twitter's ability for this type of contemporary stardom and relationship between celebrity and fan as different to traditional relationships.

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"I literally couldn’t stand my appearance in that movie and I didn’t like my performance," Bynes told Paper Magazine in 2018.

"I was absolutely convinced I needed to stop acting after seeing it,".

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At just 24 years old, Bynes' appearance in Easy A ultimately convinced her to retire from acting. Her career was essentially over.

In fact, she hasn't appeared in another feature film since.

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Screen Gems' president at the time said that Bynes was one of the few actors who "can make that graceful transition from kid to adult star because she has such strong comic chops".
However, her supporting role in Easy A was far from the adult role she desperately craved.

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"I was always the quirky girl. I'm much more comfortable being goofy than being the sex kitten." - Amanda

After positive reviews on her role in Hairspray she spoke up about her fears of being typecast as a 'goody-goody' and went on to say "I'd love to do something that would shock people, something that's against type,".

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She's the man was both the peak of her career and a catalyst for a private turmoil for Bynes.
In 2018 Amanda Bynes admitted "when the movie came out, and I saw it, I went into a deep depression for four to six months because I didn’t like how I looked when I was a boy," she said.

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The film was a moderate commercial success, grossing $57.2 million on a $20-25 million budget. Critics gave the film mixed reviews, but they praised Bynes' performance.

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2) Shift to adult phase of acting career

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2) Shift to adult phase of acting career

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From 2003-2007, she starred in a number of movies, including what a girl wants, she's the man, lovewrecked and Sydney White.

Bynes is most well known for her role in the 2006 film she's the man alongside film star Channing Tatum.

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Her star image was strongly seen as clean-cut and wholesome. She was praised for her charisma and comedic talent.

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In 2002, the New York Times labelled Bynes a new kind of child star. "Ms. Bynes is like Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner rolled into one 16-year-old package,"
Dan Schneider, who famously created many of Nickelodeon's TV shows said "I’ve seen kids in her position experiment with drugs and be too promiscuous, but Amanda has avoided all of that."
Ironic, because anyone who knows the Amanda Bynes story knows that Dan Schneider couldn't be more wrong.

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CHANCES are, either you've never heard of Amanda Bynes or there's a life-size poster of her on one of your walls. In the first camp are grown-ups without young kids. But for the generation that connects the dots of personal growth from Baby Bop to Justin Timberlake via Pokémon, Ms. Bynes is like Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner rolled into one 16-year-old package.

''Sixteen and a half,'' she pointed out during an interview in her dressing room on the set of ''What I Like About You,'' a new sitcom on WB. Still stoked from a marathon PSAT session with her studio-appointed tutor (''There are these things called mnemonic devices,'' she explained, ''which are sentences that help you remember words like 'ameliorate' ''), Ms. Bynes reflected on a distinguished career that began way back in the Clinton administration.

After being discovered at a children's comedy camp in Los Angeles in 1994, Ms. Bynes quickly emerged as the brightest talent on the Nickelodeon network who wasn't an animated chihuahua. First as a sketch-comedy performer on ''All That,'' a sort of pint-size ''Saturday Night Live,'' and later as host of ''The Amanda Show,'' on which she parodied pop icons as lofty as Judge Judy, Ms. Bynes developed a following among the post-Barney set that was like a stealth explosion.

''A couple years ago, any kid 6 to 13 knew right away who she was,'' said Dan Schneider, who has produced nearly everything Ms. Bynes has done as an actress. ''But most parents were like, 'Amanda who?' ''

That's slowly starting to change. Ms. Bynes is a product of an unofficial new pipeline program in which young performers start on Nickelodeon's low-budget, quick-turnaround shows and then, if they succeed, break out into sitcoms and movies.

Like Ms. Bynes, Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell walked away from ''All That'' with their own Nickelodeon series, ''Kenan & Kel,'' before branching out into films like ''The Good Burger'' (1997). Nick Cannon has followed his ''All That'' run with ''The Nick Cannon Show,'' a new Nickelodeon musical comedy program, as well as the lead in ''Drumline,'' a big-screen comedy that opens in January. Waiting in the wings is Jamie Lynn Spears, Britney's 12-year-old sister, a sparkly-eyed standout in the current cast of ''All That.''

''We hate to see our kids leave,'' said Kevin Kay, Nickelodeon's vice president for development, ''but fortunately, we have something called reruns, and the more our stars do on the outside, the better it reflects on us.''

With a gift for physical comedy and a fearlessness in front of live studio audiences, Ms. Bynes helped make ''All That'' and ''The Amanda Show'' the top-rated live-action programs on Nickelodeon. (Proving Mr. Kay's point, reruns of ''The Amanda Show'' on Saturday nights still outperform the channel's other non-animated shows, even though it's been two years since an original episode was made.) Young girls admired her because she's pretty and they wanted to be like her, while the boys appreciated that Ms. Bynes wasn't afraid to stick her head in a bucket of mud or fall off a roof.

Mr. Schneider, who co-created those shows, then wrote Ms. Bynes into a 2002 feature film, ''Big Fat Liar,'' and later cast her in ''What I Like About You,'' a program he created with Wil Cahoun. In it, Ms. Bynes plays a suburban teenager who moves in with her reluctant big sister, played by Jennie Garth, in Manhattan after their father takes a job in Japan.

WB may claim Ms. Bynes now (the network's Web site lets fans download a life-size image of her in 28 8 1/2-by-11 printouts), but she literally grew up on Nickelodeon. She sprouted six inches during her years there. ''We went through seven or eight stunt doubles,'' she said. ''They couldn't keep up.'' But the material was also getting old. ''I knew I didn't want to be a Nickelodeon kid when I was 30,'' she said. ''I was having fun but at 15, you don't want to be doing what you did when you were 12.'' What she likes about ''What I Like About You,'' she said, is ''it has appeal to people twice my age, even older.'' Since the sitcom debuted in September, it has been the top-rated show in its Friday-night time slot among women in the desirable 18-to-34 age group.

Many a ''True Hollywood Story'' has been told about show-business kids going bad, but Ms. Bynes seems remarkably self-possessed and far more sedate than the highly caffeinated characters she plays on television. Her idea of a big night usually revolves around a rented video and microwave popcorn, she said.

Mr. Schneider, a former child star himself, having appeared on the 1980's sitcom ''Head of the Class,'' said: ''I've seen kids in her position experiment with drugs and be too promiscuous, but Amanda has avoided all of that. My wife, who knows her, says she's almost like Marcia Brady in that she's so clean-cut and wholesome.''

Still, balancing long days of filming with prep courses for standardized tests is enough to make anybody a bit world-weary. ''Some days,'' Ms. Bynes said, half-joking, ''I'd like nothing better than to sit on the couch eating bonbons. It's like, can I just have a blanket and be 5 again? Please!''

What I Like About You

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TELEVISION/RADIO; A Proud Product Of the Nick Pipeline (Published 2002)

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CHANCES are, either you've never heard of Amanda Bynes or there's a life-size poster of her on one of your walls. In the first camp are grown-ups without young kids. But for the generation that connects the dots of personal growth from Baby Bop to Justin Timberlake via Pokémon, Ms. Bynes is like Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner rolled into one 16-year-old package.

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Amanda Bynes rose to fame as a child actress (8 years old) on the Nickelodeon show, All That.

In 1999 Bynes then starred in her own sketch comedy show, The Amanda Show which became the most successful show on Nickelodeon and led her to winning the Favourite Television Actress award at the Kids’ Choice Awards 4 years in a row.