Robbie Amell Addresses ‘Life With Derek’ Incest Theories

Robbie Amell laughed off that viral fan idea about Disney Channel’s Life With Derek — and Us Weekly can not cease speaking about it.

“Life With Derek is famously Disney’s show about siblings being in love with each other,” a BuzzFeed Canada journalist requested Robbie, 35, in a TikTok printed over the weekend. Robbie elicited a fairly massive cackle earlier than explaining that incest was not part of the precise plot.

“That’s not what it’s actually about,” he hit again in jest. “That’s just what fans like to think it was about.”

The journalist replied, “I encourage you to go back.”

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Robbie’s cousin and Code 8 costar, Stephen Amell, was additionally a part of the interview and requested, “This was on Disney?” It’s vital to notice that Stephen’s eyes have been vast open when delivering the query, and it seemed to be his first time listening to in regards to the incest theories.

“This one was in it, encouraging it,” the journalist replied, pointing at Robbie. “What was it like playing [Casey’s] non-brother boyfriend?”

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Life With Derek was a Canadian TV present broadcast by way of Disney Channel within the United States from 2005 to 2009. Ashley Leggat starred as Casey McDonald whereas Michael Seater performed the function of Derek Venturi. In the present, Casey’s mother married Derek’s dad, making them stepsiblings. However, viewers have been satisfied there was an underlying sexual rigidity between the 2.

Robbie, for his half, performed Casey’s boyfriend Max Miller within the present.

“I just wanted her and Derek to get together so badly, like everyone else on the show,” Robbie joked to BuzzFeed Canada within the current interview. “I actually loved it. It was great, it was my first real job. It was amazing and terrifying.”

Robbie recalled his “first table read ever,” the place he “shook every single person’s hand” earlier than they began.

He referred to himself as “the biggest naïve 16-year-old kid booking a job.” Robbie has since gone on to have an extended profession with roles in True Jackson, VP, The Tomorrow People, The Flash, The Duff and Upload, amongst others.

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Meanwhile, Life With Derek formally got here to an finish in 2009, however a lot of the authentic solid reunited for the 2022 Life With Luca spinoff film. Canadian media firm WildBrain introduced the celebrities collectively as soon as once more for the movie, which adopted Casey and Derek, who are actually dad and mom to their very own set of youngsters. (Despite the viral theories, the stepsiblings didn’t have children collectively.)

Casey is now a married lawyer who has three children whereas Derek is a single dad of 1.

“The movie picks up fifteen years later and follows Derek and Casey as they each navigate parenthood and raise distinctly different teenagers,” the film’s official logline learn. “Both Derek and Casey spontaneously decide to surprise their own parents at their recently constructed ‘forever home’ in rural Ontario but encounter each other instead.”