Along the way, the show managed to mint some bona fide superstars.
The legacy of “MMC” is still going strong.
Read on to check in with the cast of “The All New Mickey Mouse Club” today.
“[It] was honestly a kid’s dream unbelievably fun, particularly for a kid like me.
After a year and a half on “MMC,” Spears decided to return home.
“For a minute, I had to let normalcy win.”
In the latter half of the 1990s, Spears kicked off a pop career.
Those struggles led to Spears being placed under a conservatorship.
… [M]y relationship with that is like, ultimate feels.”
In 2024, he released a new album called “Everything I Thought It Was.”
I think every artist probably says this, but it is my best work."
However, the album failed to reach the chart highs of his previous releases; it debuted at No.
4 on theBillboard 200, managing to sell less than a quarter of what his previous album did.
“For us, every day was the best day of your life.
Really,” he toldDisney Newsa few decades later.
Chasez particularly enjoyed learning about entertainment from so many different types of people, his co-stars included.
I was encouraged by people my age as well as adults," he recalled.
This was taking longer than he expected, but he didn’t seem to mind.
“They’re just at this stage, and the fun part is they’ll get better.”
In 2024, Timberlake got *NSYNC back together to perform “Paradise” on his 2024 album.
As Chasez toldBillboard, “Every time we get together, it’s always a good time …
It’s as if we never left.”
It’s a blessing," she said.
And I say this completely truthfully: I was literally the least talented one there.
I’m not kidding."
Instead, though, she became an iconic actor instead.
Not a bad consolation prize!
At press time, she’s picked up four Emmy nominations across those last two shows.
Russell toldDeadlinethat she particularly enjoyed filming “The Diplomat,” which premiered in 2023.
The show features Russell as a State Department employee who gets involved in international intrigue.
Thankfully, Gosling seems to have figured it out by now.
He told Variety that he even used his “MMC” days as inspiration for the character.
“I could relate to Ken and the need to find yourself and distinguish yourself.”
“They brought 24 of us down there to see how we would interact,” she recalled.
“I thought we were there for our screen test, but they were always watching.”
As she toldWoman’s World, she’s happy to work for them forever.
I want to do that for the rest of my life."
He got the gig and wound up staying on the show for four years.
“It’s only surreal in hindsight.
Those were my high school years, and that was my job.”
Eventually, though, the audition circuit wore him down, and he decided to focus on music.
Lucca’s career still contains regular reminders of his status as a former Mouseketeer.
Nowadays, the multi-hyphenate is part of the current lineup of En Vogue.
In an interview withWhat Lara Wrote, Herring recalled getting along very well with the cast.
“We really did work well together.
She ultimately appeared on 95 episodes, but then she left to have a normal teenage experience.
Herring continues to work in entertainment, releasing gospel music.
Despite this, she never gave up.”
Herring leans into “Mickey Mouse Club” nostalgia on herInstagram, where she regularly connects with fans.
She told What Lara Wrote, “I do it because it helps me and helps other people.”
“I loved performing and being in front of the camera.
However, what I really gravitated towards was being in the edit bay after something was shot.
It makes sense, then, that Ackerman now has a thriving career behind the scenes.
“I mean, we went to school in Disney World, we worked, lived and breathed Disney.
As a child, it was a dream come true!”
These days, Hampton works as an educator.
He also resurrected his “Mickey Mouse Club” character Professor Wow, The Master of the Obvious forYouTube.
