Ashley Tisdale French has scored a job in a brand new comedy about coparenting.
Deadline reported on Friday, February 27 that the actress, 40, will star in upcoming CBS comedy, You’re Only Young Twice. Tisdale French may even executive produce the comedy, in accordance with the outlet.
The series, which will likely be Tisdale French’s first acting role in six years, will follow her character Emily and her ex Alex, who got married in highschool after Emily got pregnant. Now that the pair’s child has grown up and is off to school, Emily and Alex (each now aged 35) start fresh as newly divorced empty nesters.
Tisdale French posted a screenshot of the Deadline article via her Instagram on Friday and captioned the post, “I told my agent I used to be retired in acting and he said… umm no you’re not 🤷🏼♀️”
The brand new role comes after the High School Musical star ruffled feathers in January by blasting her mom group as “toxic” and writing a private essay for The Cut in addition to a Substack post detailing her decision to walk away.
Within the piece, she called out the group and revealed she had ultimately quit it after feeling ostracized.
While she didn’t name any of the opposite mothers involved within the group, a lot of her fans believed it to be the mom group she shared with other celebrity mothers, corresponding to Meghan Trainor, Mandy Moore and Hilary Duff. (Tisdale French’s representative denied this on the time.)
Ashley Tisdale French. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Bush’s Beans® )
“I remember being neglected of a few group hangs, and I knew about them because Instagram made sure it fed me each photo and Instagram Story,” Tisdale French wrote on the time. “I used to be beginning to feel frozen out of the group, noticing every way that they looked as if it would exclude me. … I told myself it was all in my head, and it wasn’t a giant deal. And yet, I could sense a growing distance between me and the opposite members of the group, who looked as if it would not even care that I wasn’t around much.”
Tisdale French described parting ways with the opposite mom by texting the group that it felt “too highschool for me, and I don’t want to participate in it anymore.”
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During an appearance on the Wednesday, February 25, episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, Duff claimed people didn’t should “connect very many dots” to determine which mom group Tisdale French was referring to.
“I felt really sad. I truthfully felt really sad. I used to be pretty, pretty stunned and felt just sad,” Duff, 38, said of Tisdale French’s claims. “I actually have so many groups of friends. I’m so lucky.”
The Lizzie McGuire alum added, “It sucks to read something that’s not true, and it sucks on behalf of six women and all of their lives.”
Earlier this month, Kaley Cuoco, who is a component of a special mom group, took a swipe at Tisdale French for the essay.
“I mean, when you don’t like being a part of a gaggle, just leave, baby,” Cuoco, 40, said while appearing on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen on February 5. “Do we’ve got to discuss it?”