Jake Paul Leaves "Bizaardvark"

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Jake Paul Exits Disney Channel Series "Bizaardvark"
by Nellie Andreeva
July 22, 2017


Jake Paul, one of the stars of "Bizaardvark", is leaving the Disney Channel series, which is currently airing its second season. He won’t be back when production on Season 2 resumes tomorrow.

Filming is slated to continue through the summer and wrap in the fall.



“We’ve mutually agreed that Jake Paul will leave his role on the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark,” a spokesperson for the network said in a statement.

“On behalf of the production company, the cast and crew, we thank Jake for his good work on the TV series for the past 18 months and extend our best wishes to him.”







The network declined further comment on the reasons for the departure but the decision comes as YouTuber-turned-Disney star Paul has been making local headlines in Los Angeles with complaints he had been getting from neighbors over alleged partying and pranks at his West Hollywood rental house.

Earlier this week, he was featured in a KTLA report on the case, in which the 20-year-old is seen running and jumping around and at one point climbing up the news van.



Paul, who has some 8.5 million followers on YouTube and Instragram, also issued a statement about his exit on Twitter, in which he says that he has “outgrown” Disney Channel and is moving on.

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YouTube Star Jake Paul on Getting Fired by Disney, Feuding With Neighbors: "I Feel Like a Zoo Animal"
by Seth Abramovitch
8/24/17


"Looking back, I see why everyone was like, 'Yo, this kid sucks,'" says 20-year-old social media phenomenon Jake Paul. "'Cause I look super immature."

He's referring to a local Los Angeles news report from mid-July that went viral — as so many things do for YouTube personalities with more than 9 million followers — and led to his abrupt dismissal from the Disney Channel series "Bizaardvark", announced July 22 in a statement that offered the departing star "best wishes."





KTLA had sent a crew to investigate reports that Paul and his YouTuber housemates were making a nuisance of themselves, lighting fires in a drained swimming pool, mounting dirt-bike drag races outside their $18,000-per-month rented house in Beverly Grove and drawing crowds of fans outside the Kilkea Drive residence.

Paul and his posse responded by ambushing the reporter with a T-shirt cannon, climbing on the roof of the KTLA van, then mocking the reporter's unremarkable shoes (a callback to a popular 2015 meme).

The other families on the block, mostly established pros working in the entertainment industry, are currently mulling a class-action lawsuit against the internet star in yet another ugly L.A. turf war, this one pitting old media against new.

"But," adds Paul, rallying to mount his own defense, "we're not even that loud. Like, yes, we had a furniture fire get out of control in our backyard one time. But that didn't harm a single person."





His is not the face of a teen idol. Lantern-jawed and nose askew, his hair a frizzy peroxided mop, if anything Jake Paul is a poster child for bratty little-brotherdom. And no one knows that more than Logan Paul, his elder sibling by two years, with whom Jake grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. Their father, Greg, is a real estate agent; their mom, Pam, a nurse.

The Pauls were in every way a typical middle-class American family. Both hyperactive boys played football from a young age. Jake was a bit of a class clown, but "wasn't the crazy kind of obnoxious kid that doesn't shut up," he notes.





In 2007, when he was 10 and his brother 12, his dad gave the boys a video camera. Turned out to be a wise investment. "We started recording videos around our house, like doing dumb stuff," recalls Jake. "Going four-wheeling or whatever. Then we found out about YouTube and fell in love with it and started uploading our videos."

And so it went for the next few years, during which the brothers developed a following that numbered in the dozens. "Our friends were the only ones watching," he explains. "But they thought we were hilarious. So it became like a hobby of ours. There's really nothing else to do in Ohio."





By the time Jake was 17, he and his brother both had developed such a large Vine following that brands like Burger King were offering them lucrative sponsorships. At first, Jake saw the videos as a means to pay for college. But as the money began to accumulate — the brothers were each already earning in the low-six figures — college seemed like less and less of a priority.

Instead, Jake set his sights on Hollywood. "I finished my junior year of high school and flew out to Los Angeles," he says. "I didn't know the difference between a manager and an agent. But I got here and just started hustling and meeting anyone I could."





Leveraging his internet celebrity, he began to land parts: first in a YouTube Red movie, then a Fox Digital movie and then in his 2015 breakthrough role on "Bizaardvark" (not much of a stretch as it revolved around a couple of teenagers who make it big with funny online videos).

But the move into terrestrial media was a calculated one for Jake, who has a big-picture vision for his career: "I knew I always wanted to be 50 percent social media and 50 percent traditional media. Because I believe the stars of the future will need both."

Even while shooting his Disney show, Jake continued feeding his YouTube channel, posting a video diary that chronicled his daily exploits. Like the time he and some pals created havoc at a Target, singing the "Happy Birthday Song" into the store's PA system and tossing sporting goods at each other in the aisles.





Predictably, Disney was not a fan of Jake's online antics.

"I was becoming edgier with my content," he says, describing one incident in which he "put a middle finger up in a video for literally half a second."

He started receiving angry emails from the talent relations division at Disney. "I don't know if they were having someone scan my videos full-time, but I'm guessing they were," he says. "There kept on being moments like that every few weeks."





Friction mounted, but Jake's non-Disney enterprises continued to flourish, with money coming in from sweatshirts and other merch he peddled on his website. In January, he launched Team 10, an attempt to "replicate what Dr. Dre did in the music industry in the social media business," as Jake calls it.

The talent and marketing company grooms new YouTube talent, many of whom live with Jake in the house and use it to shoot the content that has caused his neighbors so many headaches. While Jake concedes the fan situation outside the home has gotten out of control — "They are yelling at the neighbors, they're in the street, they're chanting my name and taking up parking" — he insists it's not his fault.

"I have made multiple videos telling fans not to come to our house," he says. "I feel like a zoo animal."





For Disney, the KTLA news segment was the final straw: Jake was dismissed from the show.

"They basically called me and were like, 'Yo, what's going on, what's going on?'" says Jake. "And I just explained the situation, and they were like, 'OK. We want to expedite this process of weaning you off the show.' And I was like, 'Yeah, that's fine. But it's going to look like you guys fired me.' And they were like, 'We can say that we mutually parted ways and blah, blah, blah.' And that's the reality of the story."





If the firing is a career setback, Jake is not letting on. In the month since he left "Bizaardvark", he was tapped to host the first-ever Teen Fest, a three-hour music festival that aired on YouTube in conjunction with the Aug. 13 Teen Choice Awards on Fox.

He won two "surfboards" that night, for top music web star and YouTuber (while Logan, who lives in Hollywood and has an equally popular parallel vlogging career, with 10 million followers, won for comedy web star and best male star). Jake took the opportunity to address his recent controversies in his acceptance speech.

"The past few months have humbled me," he told the legions of "Jake Paulers" who voted for him. "I have to be more mindful of my actions and words and how they impact others."





Jake is currently bringing the show on the road, having just completed a two-stop mini tour, with 13 more dates set for October.

Also, he is hunting for a new house. "The problem is, we can't put my name on the lease," he says. "Because if they look me up now, then they would see all this bad stuff."

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I think the show can go on without him - there are plenty of other interesting tertiary characters to fill the void, and since the kids switched to public school and more scenes there, he seemed out of place a lot of the time anyways.

although his neighbors would have better luck getting rid of him if they had just DARE-ME-BRO dared him to move shave his head, move back to Ohio, and become a street mime. DARE ACCEPTED!

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The untold truth of Jake Paul

He insists he wasn't fired by the Disney Channel

As Paul continued to clash with neighbors, he suddenly parted ways with the Disney Channel, home of his hit series Bizaardvark, right in the middle of the show's second season.

Taking to Twitter, Paul confirmed the split. "Long story short…my team, Disney Channel, and I have come to the agreement its [sic] finally time for me to move on from the Disney family and Bizaardvark," he said. "I love my cast mates and will continue to support Disney but I have outgrown the channel and feels its time to move forward with my career."

Rumor has it Paul was fired, but his rep insisted that wasn't the case. "They couldn't have been nicer about it," the rep told Page Six.*"Now that he's not on the show he can go on auditions for more mature roles."

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