His life is a lot different today. For one he's now a dad, having shared a hilarious image of him and his wife last February, announcing a little Kel was on the way. Thank you Asia Lee for being the best wife to me, the best friend to me, and now the best mom to our blessed baby! I love you so much. But this might have come as a shock to anybody prone to believing urban legends, as the star has been subject to a number of online 'death hoaxes'. Although judging by his attitude in interviews, Mitchell took it well, considering.
In an interview with The Atlantic he previously explained how posts on Twitter claiming he had passed away had meant he had to reassure distant relatives that he was alive, as their phone calls poured in. It's shocking to me that someone would sit there and say someone else died. But he's not bitter about being killed off by weirdos online. He said: "All press is good press. And he does seem to have done well out of it. He had all but disappeared back in when the rumours began, but now he's back where he belongs on Nickelodeon on Game Shakers.
Source: Snopes ; The Atlantic. But when Mitchell and Thompson both tried out for Saturday Night Live in , the latter won the coveted position. Despite the massive differences between his own career trajectory and Thompson's, Mitchell makes a valid point: His orange-soda-gulping, lovable nimrod character is an integral part of his body of work and an inseparable part of his life. In conversation, Mitchell hardly goes a sentence without referencing his family. When he first heard of his own death rumor seven years ago, it was his family he thought of first: Mitchell had to explain to concerned distant relatives that he was still living, as their calls poured in.
The Internet remains such a breeding ground for rumors that even real celebrity deaths are sometimes presumed to be hoaxes—as was the case with the recent death of actor Paul Walker. But after a Los Angeles callback audition, Mitchell, then 15, and his other teenage cast mates made their debut in It was like high school, you know what I mean, but just a small, like, little summer camp type of thing.
And we had our cliques," Mitchell recalled. Since the show was filmed in Orlando, Florida, Mitchell said he and the cast often visited the theme park at Universal Orlando Resort in between school time and jumped the lines at rides where fans fawned over the teen stars. We couldn't go anywhere. She wanted to meet me and she actually had an asthma attack … That was a crazy moment for me. She lived though so it was cool.
He also became friends with "All That" musical acts Brandy, Aaliyah and TLC, who he said once "kidnapped" his sister and made her a new member of the group.
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