Category: Jennette McCurdy
Jennette McCurdy Talks About Her Feud With Ariana Grande During Their Nickelodeon Days
One-time Nickelodeon star, Jennette McCurdy‘s new book I’m Glad My Mom Died, is now out, and all the tea from her days as a potential victim of alleged child predators has been spilled. We know from her book that she turned down $300,000 in hush money to keep quiet about her experiences working with someone she refers to as “The Creator”– which is most likely Dan Schnieder who left the show during #MeToo. In her book, Jennette also writes about her “rivalry” with her Sam & Cat co-star Ariana Grande. But it seems like it had less to do with Ariana herself and more with the higher-ups on the show. Since Ariana was on a superstar trajectory during their time working together and was allowed to regularly skip filming, Jennette ended up picking up a lot of Ari’s slack. And in her memoir, Jennette reveals that when she was younger she was definitely not an Arianator.
Jennette McCurdy Claims Nickelodeon Offered Her $300,000 In Hush Money
Last year, former child star Jennette McCurdy, best known for her role as Sam Puckett in Nickelodeon’s iCarly and Sam & Cat, announced she was done with acting and would be shifting her focus to writing, directing, and podcasting. Since then, 30-year-old Jennette actually wrote something (um, a real writer would procrastinate for years!); a memoir, entitled I’m Glad My Mom Died. That was also the title of her one-woman show, so, like, Jennette’s definitely glad mom Debra McCurdy died of cancer in 2013.
Ahead of her book’s August 9 release, Jennette did an interview with The New York Times and discussed some of her memoir’s more troubling revelations, including the fact that Nickelodeon allegedly offered her $300,000 in hush money to never talk about her experiences with the network. It doesn’t take the child genius brain of iCarly (was she smart? I never watched) to put two and two together… this has gotta be Dan Scheider-related. Continue reading
Jennette McCurdy Says She’s Done With Acting And Resents Her Career
Jennette McCurdy is a former Nickelodeon child star whom you may recognize from iCarly or the Ariana Grande Disney show, Sam & Cat (both created by alleged creepster Dan Schneider). Sam & Cat ended in controversy after one season; some of Jennette’s not-actually-that-racy lingerie photos leaked, she and Nickelodeon butted heads over her salary, and she didn’t go to the 2014 Kids’ Choice Awards cuz she said Nickelodeon put her in an “uncomfortable, compromising, unfair situation.” Since then Jennette’s done a little on-screen acting but chose to focus more on writing and directing short films. And she performed a short run of her one-woman show, entitled “I’m Glad My Mom Died” (yeeeah… more about the mother below).