Before the network decides not to go any further with the sitcom, the 'Heart Attack' hitmaker pulls out of her starring role and gets replaced by 'Modern Family' star Ariel Winter.
- May 13, 2022
AceShowbiz - Demi Lovato's show "Hungry" will not be proceeding at NBC. The "Heart Attack" hitmaker's sitcom was believed to be heading to the network, but they have declined to go any further with the project.
It was recently announced that the 29-year-old singer would no longer star, but will just executive produce, alongside their friend and manager Scooter Braun, in the project which follows a group of friends in a food issues support group. She was replaced by Ariel Winter, who shot to fame on "Modern Family".
The show included a cast of Valerie Bertinelli, Gabriel Iglesias, Ryan McPartlin, Alex Brightman and Ashley D. Kelley. Suzanne Martin, who helped create "Will & Grace" and "Hot in Cleveland", Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner were serving on the producing team, as was James Shin and Scott Manson, along with Demi and Scooter.
When Ariel was named as Demi's replacement, she had spoken about her "rough" treatment by the press and how it impacted her body image, just like the characters in the show, like when she was called a "fat s**t" as a pre-teen.
"I got called 'a fat slut' when I was 13. That was rough," the 24-year-old actress said. "Because I gained weight and my body changed, I had to wear different outfits and I wore a dress that had a cutout here and the headlines were dark. 'Fat slut' was rough for me, and it continued."
"It was the fans, some of them - we have lovely, lovely fans, but some of them were also hard on me in the way they loved Alex Dunphy. And because I wasn't Alex Dunphy and didn't look like Alex, I didn't want to dress like Alex… I was just different in that way," she added. "I'm not my character."
