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The actor had been asked to co-host the Kids' Choice Awards alongside the main host, Rosie O'Donnell, as well as other guest stars like Mandy Moore, David Arquette, and LL Cool J.
But the person Muniz was concerned about was fellow co-host Amanda Bynes, who was at the top of her game on All That and The Amanda Show.
Muniz remembered:
"I told my agent back then, I want to be on 'All That.' I want to be on 'The Amanda Show.' Because I had a huge crush on Amanda Bynes as a kid, and I thought that those were the funniest, most amazing shows."
While he wasn't invited to guest-star or join the cast for these shows, he got the next best thing.
"Then my mom gets a call one day, and she's freaking out, so excited. It's Gail Berman, who at the time was the president of Fox. She goes, 'You got asked to host 'Saturday Night Live.' I'm like, 'What's that?' And she's like, 'It's huge. You'll be one of the youngest people ever. It's this big deal.'"
But Muniz knew what he was committed to.
"I asked when it was, and she said April third, and I'm like, 'Oh, h**l no, I am going to the Kids' Choice Awards. I don't care. I'm meeting Amanda Bynes at the Kids' Choice Awards!'"
"For about a week and a half, I had every executive, every producer, everybody in the history of Fox TV, Regency TV, going, 'What are you doing?! You don't understand!'"
"But I was like, 'No no, I don't back out of obligations. I committed. I'm not going to back out of the Kids' Choice Awards. They've been airing my commercials, saying that I'm going to be co-hosting."
"So I met Amanda Bynes... briefly."
You can watch the interview segment here.
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The segment also became popular on TikTok, where viewers found Muniz's commitment adorable.
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Others were relieved to hear that Muniz's childhood acting career actually sounded kid-friendly.
A lot of information has come out in the last few years about what happened on Nickelodeon kid shows during the 1990s and early 2000s, particularly where Dan Schneider was involved. One of the impacted actors was Amanda Bynes, who has dramatically transformed her appearance, lifestyle, and even her name since her acting career dissolved.
Though Muniz is more involved in NASCAR now than his acting career, going on a different path than Bynes seems to have made a serious difference, in tragic retrospect.
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Though Saturday Night Live might have been the bigger and flashier option, it makes sense for a child star to appear on the Kids' Choice Awards when Nickelodeon was at the top of its game.
Plus, this whole story is just adorable. Though Muniz only met Bynes briefly the night of the awards, he later acted with her on the 2002 Big Fat Liar film, and it says a lot about his ability to keep his word after he's already made a commitment, even if everyone around him is encouraging him to back out of it for something "bigger and better."
The cartoon garnered attention after Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman called its publication "unconscionable" in a post on X:
"The unconscionable cartoon in Newsday trivializing the assassination of Charlie Kirk is so over the top despicable that it is shocking even for the majority of us who realized long ago that Newsday abandoned any pretension of fairness. Cancel Newsday!"
You can see the cartoon below.
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New York Republican Nick LaLota said "mocking Charlie Kirk's assassination is vile" and called for the paper to fire Bok, even though Bok is not employed by Newsday.
Additionally, Suffolk County Republican Party Chairman Jesse Garcia called for a boycott of the paper and urged Newsday to remove the cartoon from its platforms, terminate Bok's contract, and apologize to Kirk's family.
He added:
"Until these actions are taken, we call on advertisers and subscribers to boycott Newsday. Do not support a publication that normalizes hate and endangers lives."
"It's this type of hate - by media outlets like Newsday and others, social media platforms, and national, state, and local Democrat officials that instill political violence against those they disagree with."
Other conservatives have also lashed out at the publication.
Newsday later published an official apology:
"On Saturday, Newsday published a syndicated editorial cartoon referring to the assassination of Charlie Kirk that was insensitive and offensive."
"We deeply regret this mistake and sincerely apologize to the family of Charlie Kirk and to all. We made an error in judgment. The cartoon has been removed from our digital platforms."
The paper added that Bok's cartoon suggested that the assassination "might be a turning point for healing our nation's divide," noting that it was "inappropriate and should never have been published in Newsday."
Media outlets have faced scathing criticism from conservatives in the wake of Kirk's assassination and some journalists have even been dismissed from their jobs for quoting Kirk's own words.
Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah said she was dismissed following social media posts on gun control and race after Kirk’s assassination. She called her firing "a violation of the very standards of journalistic fairness and rigor the Post claims to uphold.”
Conservatives have also vowed to crack down on social media posts about Kirk's killing.
Last week, Louisiana Republican Representative Clay Higgins said he would use his "Congressional authority" to get anyone who "belittled" Kirk's assassination banned from all social media platforms for life.
Higgins, ignoring Kirk's rhetoric that made him one of the most high-profile white supremacists in the country, vowed there would be consequences for anyone "celebrating the heinous murder of that beautiful young man who dedicated his whole life to delivering respectful conservative truth into the hearts of liberal enclave universities."
Turner shared a wedding photo of her and Malcom-Jamal on their wedding day, as it was their anniversary a few days ago.
In a heartfelt message, she used the picture to announce how she and her daughter would be honoring his memory.
“I can still hear my husband’s laugh, still feel the way he made room for every part of me — every tear, every dream. Today, in his honor, my daughter and I are launching River & Ember and officially opening The Warner Family Foundation."
The foundation will aim, through a "Creative Legacy Fund," to provide scholarships to younger folks ages 14-22 to nurture a new generation of artists. This legacy fund is particularly meaningful in the context of Warner's musical and poetic talents, in addition to the acting for which he was more widely known.
People really appreciated the wedding picture and the love and joy in the announcement of the foundation's fund.
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Truly a bittersweet moment.
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Tenisha Warner is not a public figure, despite her husband's celebrity. Malcolm-Jamal never confirmed her or their daughter's names or identities.
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Warner, who played Theodore Huxtable on The Cosby Show, was also more recently known for his work in Suits and The Resident.
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Folks were empathetic about her grief, and hoped they might be able to help her by shouldering it for a moment.
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This tribute will create a lasting legacy that Malcolm-Jamal would be proud of.
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Malcolm-Jamal Warner was 54 years old, and is survived by his daughter and wife.
