{"id":68621,"date":"2023-11-30T21:41:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T21:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordcelnews.com\/?p=68621"},"modified":"2023-11-30T21:41:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T21:41:12","slug":"dylan-sprouse-body-shamed-by-disney-exec-as-teen-told-look-like-cole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordcelnews.com\/celebrities\/dylan-sprouse-body-shamed-by-disney-exec-as-teen-told-look-like-cole\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan Sprouse 'body-shamed by Disney exec as teen told look like Cole'"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dylan Sprouse was body-shamed by a Disney executive ‘with significant power’ when he was a teen according to his television mother Kim Rhodes.<\/p>\n
The 54-year-old actress – who said the same television son refused to say a fat joke\u00a0aimed at her – starred as Dylan’s, now 31, mom on Disney Channel show The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody through all three seasons from 2005 to 2008.<\/p>\n
Rhodes appeared on the\u00a0Vulnerable With Christy Carlson Romano podcast where she emotionally claimed that an Disney executive had screamed at craft services that there should be ‘no more junk food’ until Dylan looked like his twin brother Cole who also starred on the program.<\/p>\n
DailyMail.com has reached out to representatives from The Disney Channel and Dylan Sprouse and has yet to hear back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The actress – who played single mother\u00a0Carey Martin –\u00a0 said: ‘Someone of significant power came down to the craft service, which is where they have all the tasty food for all of those who don’t know, and screamed at the number of donuts and said “no more junk food until he looks like him again.”<\/p>\n
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Kim Rhodes revealed that television son Dylan Sprouse was body-shamed by a Disney executive while he was a teen as she starred as the mother to he and identical twin Cody in The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody\u00a0through all three seasons from 2005 to 2008<\/p>\n
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Rhodes got emotional she talked about her on-screen sons:\u00a0‘Dylan and Cole had different body types and in front of everyone Dylan was body shamed’; they are seen in August 2007<\/p>\n
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Dylan is seen in Paris last month<\/p>\n
Tears began to well in Rhodes’ eyes as she talked about the identical twins who played her sons.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She explained: ‘Dylan and Cole had different body types and in front of everyone Dylan was body shamed.’<\/p>\n
Rhodes went on to say that she defended Dylan at the time as she ‘f***ing lit into’ the Disney Channel executive.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This came just days after Rhodes\u00a0\u00a0recalled one of her favorite memories from the beloved Disney Channel series The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody, which involved the aforementioned defending her.<\/p>\n
The characters of Rhodes and the twin actors all lived in a suite at the Tipton Hotel in Boston where Carey worked as the lounge singer in the series.<\/p>\n
During an appearance on the 90s\/2000s podcast Back to the Best, Rhodes revealed that she became pregnant during filming, which led to various fat jokes on the show.<\/p>\n
She revealed on the podcast that Dylan kept ‘skipping over’ the joke all week, but when it came to the taping, he stood his ground and fired a shot at the writers.<\/p>\n
‘One of my favorite memories is Dylan had a line that was a fat joke, and he just kept skipping over it. It was in the middle of a chunk of dialogue. So he kept skipping over this laugh line,’ Rhodes began.<\/p>\n
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This came just days after Rhodes (pictured in November 2014) recalled one of her favorite memories from the beloved Disney Channel series The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody, which involved the aforementioned defending her<\/p>\n
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Standing his ground:\u00a0She revealed on the podcast that Dylan kept ‘skipping over’ the joke all week, but when it came to the taping, he stood his ground and fired a shot at the writers<\/p>\n
‘Finally we get to in front of the studio audience, and he skips it. The executive producer screams “Cut.” It\u2019s the director\u2019s job to cut by the way,’ she adds.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘He goes, “Cut. Dylan, say the line.” He goes, “I would not disrespect any woman that way let alone this woman. You write something funny, and I\u2019ll say it,”‘ Rhodes said.<\/p>\n
‘That\u2019s my little man. They\u2019re both my little men,’ she said, adding that both Dylan and Cole, ‘defended me all the way through.’<\/p>\n
Dylan and Cole – identical twins born just 15 minutes apart – started acting at just six months old, playing young Patrick on Grace Under Fire starring Brett Butler.<\/p>\n
They both switched to feature films when Grace Under Fire went off the air, playing Julian in Adam Sandler’s Big Daddy and appearing alongside Charlize Theron in The Astronaut’s Wife.<\/p>\n
While the twins were just 12 when The Suite Life of Zack and Cody debuted on Disney Channel in 2005, they both had 10 feature films and over 100 episodes of television under their belt.<\/p>\n
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody aired for three seasons from 2005 to 2008, with the Sprouse twins moving on to The Suite Life on Deck, where they studied abroad.<\/p>\n
That ran another three seasons from 2008 to 2011, with the show culminating with The Suite Life Movie in 2011.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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No disrespect:\u00a0‘He goes, “Cut. Dylan, say the line.” He goes, “I would not disrespect any woman that way let alone this woman. You write something funny, and I\u2019ll say it,”‘ Rhodes said<\/p>\n
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Defended:\u00a0‘That\u2019s my little man. They\u2019re both my little men,’ she said, adding that both Dylan and Cole, ‘defended me all the way through’<\/p>\n
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Coming soon:\u00a0He also has the Beautiful Disaster follow-up Beautiful Wedding arriving on February 1, and the action-thriller Aftermath in post-production<\/p>\n
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TV arcs:\u00a0After Suite Life went off the air, Rhodes has had arcs in Colony, Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street, Criminal Minds and Supernatural<\/p>\n
Dylan had The Duel debut on the festival circuit this spring and Beautiful Disaster debut in April.<\/p>\n
He also has the Beautiful Disaster follow-up Beautiful Wedding arriving on February 1, and the action-thriller Aftermath in post-production.<\/p>\n
After Suite Life went off the air, Rhodes has had arcs in Colony, Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street, Criminal Minds and Supernatural.<\/p>\n
She most recently had an arc on The CW’s Kung Fu.\u00a0<\/p>\n