According to Entertainment Weekly, child actor Rowan Blanchard, age 11, has won the coveted title role of Riley Matthews in Girl Meets World, the Disney Channel spin-off of Boy Meets World. Her parents will be played by Cory (Ben Savage) and Topanga (Danielle Fishel) reprising their original roles from Boy Meets World. SPY KIDS Star Rowan Blanchard poses
As Hollywood Moms and Dads have speculated over the past few days, Director of Kids & Teens Division at FORD MODELS Los Angeles, Elise-Cactus McCallum has confirmed to Hollywood MomBlog that she and her team were advised Monday, January 7, 2013 that as of January 31, 2013 FORD MODELS Inc. will be closing all kids' divisions nationwide.
Former Child Actor and now two-time Golden Globe winner for ARGO, Actor/Director Ben Affleck doesn't like working with child actors, and will not let his children (Violet, Seraphina and Samuel with actress Wife Jennifer Garner) be actors, as children or as adults according to a recent interview with NPR. Affleck stated, '"I hate directing young actors. I
Two And A Half Men's controversial co-star Angus T. Jones, now 19, is returning to the set for the first time following his religious You Tube proclamation in late 2012, per Deadline.com. You may recall Jones' decrying his top-rates series as “filth” and his pleas to viewers to “stop watching.” Against all odds, producers are giving the
Child Actress Quvenzhané Wallis, (Beasts of the Southern Wild) age 9, won the Critics Choice Award last night for Best Young Actor/Actress but lost her bid in the Best Actress category to Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty.) Wallis is also an Academy Award nominee for Best Actress. If you've seen the film you know one can't help but fall in love
Hollywood Mom Blog was invited to take an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at daytime television’s guiltiest pleasure,"Days of our Lives," (DOOL). Having grown up watching the show, we were excited to hit the NBC lot and get an insiders look at how DOOL runs. Maya Frangie led the set tour, along with Sony Pictures Director of
True Grit break-through child star Hailee Steinfeld signed on to play the lead in Why We Broke Up, the film adaptation of Daniel Handler's recent novel a while back and the project is still listed as "In Development." Better known to us moms as Lemony Snicket, Handler also wrote the "A Series of Unfortunate Events" books, my daughter's
Each day in the mainstream media we read "Then & Now" articles about former child actors no longer working in film or TV whose lives are, let's politely say, less than aspirational. Fortunately there are three great examples of former child stars no longer working in front of the camera but enjoying great professional success
DEEP SEA ADVENTURES, the finished float, was just a little more *Special* due to the contributions of the HMB family Volunteers! What an inspiring way to start the new year - with a post about members of our dedicated HMB family donating their time for a good cause. A few weeks ago the
In an interview with The London Evening Standard, former BILLY ELLIOT child star Jamie Bell, now 25, explains how he was able to avoid the "curse of the child star." "I had this extreme focus, and people around me who wanted the best for me. There are many examples of young children in the entertainment industry who
