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    Jamie Lynn Spears Recalls Being Forced to Audition for 'Twilight': 'That Is So Stupid'

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    The ‘Zoey 101’ alum remembers going to the audition where she saw Lily Collins in the same room and feeling ‘so sick,’ not knowing that she was pregnant at the time.

    Oct 21, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Jamie Lynn Spears had apparently vied for “Twilight” when she was 16 years old. More than a decade after the Catherine Hardwicke-directed movie hit the theaters, the actress best known for her portrayal of Zoey Brooks on “Zoey 101” recalled being forced to go to its audition thinking that it was “so stupid.”
    “They had to force me. Force me,” the 29-year-old opened up in an interview with Nylon magazine on Monday, October 19. “I remember just thinking like, ‘Y’all are insane. I’m not playing a vampire. That is so stupid. Why would I do that?’ ” Still, she admitted that she “went and read for that role.”
    The younger sister of Britney Spears went on to name another star trying for the role as well. “I remember sitting in this little room, and I think Lily Collins was there, and I felt so sick,” she spilled before noting that she did not realize that she was expecting her first child with her highschool sweetheart Casey Aldridge at that time. “Little did I know, I was pregnant.”

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    When talking about being pregnant at 16, the Noreen Fitzgibbons of “Sweet Magnolias” shared, “You have your first love, or what you call love in high school. You think it’s forever, and then, oh my gosh, I’m pregnant.” She added, “I am mortified to have to tell my parents this and my family this. I do not care what TMZ thinks about it.”
    “That was all I was thinking about: ‘These are the people I love that I have to tell, and also, I’m pregnant. There’s a human being growing inside of me, and I’m so young, I’m almost a baby myself,’ ” she continued. “I didn’t really care about any of that nonsense, but when we did announce that I was pregnant, I did hide away for a little bit during that time and I didn’t have a phone.”
    “But of course, the paparazzi still found me. It’s not like I was in L.A. walking down the middle of the most popular boulevard; I was in the middle of nowhere Mississippi,” the mother of two further recounted. “I tried to do the best that I could. And yet, sure enough, everywhere I went in Mississippi for that whole nine months, there was always paparazzi on me everywhere I went.”
    Jamie welcomed her first child, now-12-year-old Maddie, back in 2008. The “Shotgun Wedding” songstress, however, ended her relationship with Casey two years afterward. Following the split, the TV personality got into a relationship with businessman Jamie Watson. The two tied the knot in 2014, and have since shared a 2-year-old daughter, Ivey Joan, together.

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      Jamie Lynn Spears Pitches Pre-Teen Daughter for New 'Zoey 101' Series

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      While teasing a potential reboot of her hit Nickelodeon show, the younger sister of Britney Spears hopes her eldest daughter, Maddie, can follow in her footsteps.
      Jul 13, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Singer/actress Jamie Lynn Spears is pushing TV bosses to give her pre-teen daughter her old role in a new “Zoey 101” series.
      The 29-year-old portrayed lead character Zoey Brooks on the hit Nickelodeon show for three years until she fell pregnant with her eldest daughter, Maddie, in 2008, and now she is hoping the 12-year-old can follow in mum’s footsteps.
      “Maybe she could play Zoey when she was younger or something,” Jamie told ET Online while teasing a potential reboot of the program.
      Spears has been in talks about bringing “Zoey 101” back to life on the small screen, but the coronavirus pandemic has put discussions on hold.
      “It’s just (hard during) quarantine and all this stuff,” she explained. “I think putting everyone’s safety first is what we are trying to do right now. And conversations that were started before this have kind of (taken) a slow pace, as everything else in the world.”

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      Jamie Lynn Spears Explains Why Her Acting Return Felt Very Natural for Her

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      Twelve years since the ending of ‘Zoey 101’, the younger sister of Britney Spears is making a return to the small screen by taking on the role of Noreen Fitzgibbons on ‘Sweet Magnolias’.
      May 20, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Jamie Lynn Spears is convinced she was destined to make her acting return in new TV series “Sweet Magnolias” because so many aspects of the project mirrored her own life.
      Britney Spears’ little sister hasn’t flexed her acting muscles since her Nickelodeon show “Zoey 101” ended in 2008, when she became a teenage mum with the birth of her first child.
      She subsequently reinvented herself as a country singer, but the 29 year old, now a mother-of-two, is back onscreen in the Netflix adaptation of author Sherryl Woods’ hit book series, which revolves around a trio of childhood best friends in the small town of Serenity, South Carolina.
      “I had been in denial, not really admitting to myself how much I missed acting,” Jamie Lynn tells The Hollywood Reporter.

      “I was working on my music for a while and then I focused on my family for a bit. With acting, I was just waiting for a project that made sense.”
      Jamie Lynn was drawn to the role of Noreen Fitzgibbons, a young nurse who falls pregnant after an affair with Chris Klein’s character, Dr. Bill Townsend, because she could relate to so much of her TV alter ego’s story.
      “It didn’t even feel like acting,” she explains. “Although it was nerve-racking to get back in front of the camera, this felt very natural for me.
      “I remember being 16 years old, being pregnant in a small town. And then on top of it, the whole world was watching. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t view myself as a victim. And with Noreen, it was important to not play the victim either. She put herself in a compromising situation. She’s a young girl who made some adult decisions and she’s trying to take some responsibility for that. That was me, too.”
      And it wasn’t just the Fitzgibbons parallels which struck a chord with Jamie Lynn – the fictional town shares the same name as the Spears family’s estate in Louisiana, while her eldest child is called Maddie – just like the main character, played by JoAnna Garcia Swisher.
      “There were so many little nods from the universe, telling me that this is what I was supposed to be doing,” she says.
      “Number one, Serenity being the name of the town. That’s a big part of my life, that word in general. Also, we shot in this small town (in Covington, Georgia) that happened to be where my first music producer’s wife is from. Her mother came in and watched Ivey (her two-year-old daughter) for me one night while I was on set, because I knew them. It was just so bizarre, but in a cool way.
      “Everything literally was just meant to be.”
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      Season one of “Sweet Magnolias” premiered on Netflix on Tuesday, May 19.

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