Following the popularity of Girl Meets World, the spinoff of Boy Meets World, it's likely that Blanchard wanted to pursue other projects as her career was starting to take off. Rather than writing off Jackie after Blanchard departed, the show's creator wanted to keep her character around at first.
- What happened to the old Jackie on Goldbergs?
- Why did Dana leave the Goldbergs?
- Is Jackie from the Goldbergs real?
What happened to the old Jackie on Goldbergs?
Girl Meets World's Rowan Blanchard played Jackie Geary, Adam Goldberg's love interest, for 11 episodes throughout Season 4 and Season 5, but was later replaced by Alexis G. Zall in the role for Season 6. Blanchard went on to appear in Splitting Up Together and TNT's Snowpiercer.
Why did Dana leave the Goldbergs?
They broke up after she moved to Seattle and they realized that long-distance wouldn't work. The character Dana, and the actress portraying her, Natalie Alyn Lind, returned in the second episode of the seventh season "Dana's Back" airing on October 2, 2019.
Is Jackie from the Goldbergs real?
Rowan Blanchard's Jackie on 'The Goldbergs' Was Based On A Real-Life Person! ... "A lot of the stories this year center around Adam and his girlfriend Jackie, who's a real person – she's actually an actor who played [Jackie's] mom last year and is going to be recurring playing her TV mom, which is so wild," he said.