I am sorry to begin the day, and the week, with such INTENSE and SHOCKING news, but Amanda Bynes (Arli$$, Rugrats) has “retired” from “acting.” Whuuuuuut?! But she was so good at acting! Probably! In whatever it was that she was in! Also, I didn’t know that you could retire at the age of 24 from a thing that many people don’t even know you do! Anyway, she did it, and she did it as one does, over Twitter (via Dlisted):

I’ve never written the movies & tv shows I’ve been apart of I’ve only acted like the characters the producers or directors wanted me to play
6:58 AM Jun 19th via web

Being an actress isn’t as fun as it may seem
6:59 AM Jun 19th via web

If I don’t love something anymore I stop doing it
7:47 AM Jun 19th via web

I don’t love acting anymore so I’ve stopped doing it
7:48 AM Jun 19th via web

I know 24 is a young age to retire but you heard it here first I’ve #retired
7:50 AM Jun 19th via web

I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen anything that Amanda Bynes has been in, because no perverto, but now I probably never will, since I’m sure her entire back catalog is now “Long Wait” on Netflix. You know, out of respect. Amanda Bynes: living legend. Oh, and since you’re probably sitting down at this point, I might as well also use this time to let you know that over the weekend, TORI SPELLING ‘WOLFED DOWN’ A PIZZA!

Comments (68)
  1. The Tori Spelling article makes me so mad. Is there some law that Huffington Post has to publish every press release they get?

  2. I hope Elton John does a “Candle in the Wind” version for Ms. Bynes.

  3. You’ve never seen All That? I’m disappointed.

  4. Kelly Kapoor is gonna be so bummed.

  5. But what about Hairspray 2?

  6. I know 24 is a young age to retire but you heard it here first I’ve #retired
    7:50 AM Jun 19th via web

  7. I’ve never written the movies & tv shows I’ve been apart of I’ve only acted like the characters the producers or directors wanted me to play
    6:58 AM Jun 19th via web

    All this time I’ve only been acting in the movies and tv shows that I personally write. Guess that means I can’t be #retired until I’m 85 or #dead.

  8. She’s the Man was on this weekend. And it was great. Observe:

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  10. Amanda Bynes Has Retired From Acting…

    …To begin hew new career directing

  11. “I like black men I’m very attracted to them just fyi 9:23 AM Jun 19th via web ”

    We have lost an intellectual powerhouse.

  12. I don’t love banging black men anymore so I’ve stopped doing it.

  13. Amanda Bynes endorses this.

  14. I have never heard of this person, so…all the best? Via con dios at…Foot Locker? Circuit City?

  15. I strongly recommend ______ K i l l Y o u r s e l f * C o m ______ to you where I just found a bottle of rat poison! You know it is a great place to find bullets and rope. What’s kind of suicide do you want?

  16. I upvoted for love.

  17. all i remember was that her show on nickelodeon was ridiculously irritating. even the intro song made me want to claw my ears off… and she did always play really embarassing characters…. so i get why she would want to stop before it got any worse.

    wait. i’m thinking about this too much, uggghhh my brain is a fucked apart dead thing :(

    um, good luck amanda bynez!?

  18. 5 tweets in an hour – why do people do that? what’s wrong with interacting with real life humans?

  19. I think we should all go on her website for her old show to realize what we are going to miss:
    http://www.nick.com/amandaplease/index.jhtml

    • Penolope Taynt reacts to the news:

      Amanda, Please. Amanda, Please!? Amanda….Please? *sob* Amanda, no thank you. *sob**sob* NO THANK YOU! *swallows a hand full of pills* *sob*

      • Pe”no”lope is what I said when I heard Amanda Bynes was retiring.

        (good save.)

        except what I really said was: “so?” Maybe now she’ll be something real. Like a dentist… like her father.

        …ok obviously because I know she has a dentist daddy what I REALLY, REALLY said was: “aww. she tweets the tweets of a sad person. I hope she finds happiness in something that is not drugs and/or alcohol.” Godspeed, Amanda. (please)

      • AMANDA SHOW WAS THE WORST. Also, I just love that she PERSONALLY played a person who was obsessed with her. PREDATING THE NARCISSISM OF TWITTER. TOTALLY PROPHETIC OR SOMETHING.

  20. is this why “what a girl wants” has been on tv a hundred times in the last few weeks? the networks have been gearing up for us to miss amanda.

  21. No offense to myself, but She’s The Man is one of my favorite films.

  22. I’m surprised the newspaper reporters haven’t hit up Keenan Thompson for a comment about his fellow All That alumnus’ shocking departure from the Business.

  23. On the plus side, the stock on my Amanda Bynes collective memorabilia company just EXPLODED.

  24. I know I am going to blow my street cred here (huh?), but this upsets me! She did so many funny voices, and I for one love funny voices. And she wore mustaches! So funny guys, right?! Mustaches! LOL!

  25. Amanda Bynes will perhaps be best remembered for her sheer variety of faces.

  26. I like eggs.

  27. “A prodigiously talented comedienne, she promises to have a lifelong career. (sic)” – IMDB

  28. I worked at Disney World for a short time a few years ago and one day I got to help Amanda Bynes into a fake river raft. True Story. True, Great Story.

  29. More like “horsed down” a pizza.

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