Christy Carlson Romano, who first broke out on the sitcom “Even Stevens,” has revealed that co-star Shia LaBeouf used to trash-talk competing Disney Channel show “Lizzie McGuire” and that he was “definitely beefing” with the show’s star, Hilary Duff. I’m sure she was doing her own thing, but he would always be kind of like trash-talking ‘Lizzie McGuire,’” Romano said on a recent episode of “The Joe Vulpis Podcast.” “I was always like, ‘We don’t know anything about them. Like why are you…’” she recalled, adding that he was “very competitive.” She continued: “He wanted to be the number one show on the network.
He had to be the number one show because I think his life depended on that show doing well… He had a rough upbringing, and I think he needed that show to do well for him.” Earlier in the episode, the actress explained that while the actors didn’t have “beef” with rival actors at Nickelodeon, there was competition within the network to get the best ratings. Last month, ahead of the release of her memoir, “Once Upon a Trainwreck: The Fall and Rise of a Child Star,” Romano said that she and LaBeouf were “like oil and water” while guesting on a podcast, despite being just 14 and 12 years old, respectively, at the time. Romano explained that their on-set incompatibility stemmed from how they were raised.
Like, you know your lines, you hit your marks, you don’t mess up,” she said.
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