{"id":1516593,"date":"2026-06-18T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=d930b7c7684a0077fafca03a4e03fbf5"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:17:07","slug":"mariah-carey-to-return-as-guest-star-on-the-proud-family-louder-and-prouder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1516593","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey to return as guest star on &#8216;The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/50bae119d8144692ce0de6f864a2cdee.png\" alt\/><figcaption>Poster for 'The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder' (Disney)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Mariah Carey is returning to <em>The Proud Family<\/em>, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.<\/p><p>She is set to&nbsp;guest star in the fourth and final season of <em>The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder<\/em>,&nbsp;premiering July 29 on Disney+. Mariah previously appeared on season 3 of the original series, voicing an animated version of herself. Her character's pet monkey, Francois,&nbsp;is accidentally switched with Oscar's monkey, Mr. Chips, during a visit at Trudy's veterinarian office. Francois is then subjected to life at Proud Snacks, while Mr. Chips enjoys a life of luxury.<\/p><p><span class=\"yADgie\" data-copy-service-computed-style=\"font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);\">Mariah is one of several guest stars joining the reboot for the fourth season,&nbsp;including Chl\u00f6e Bailey, Kym Whitley and J.B. Smoove. Recurring guest stars Anthony Anderson and Tiffany Haddish will reprise their roles as Ray Ray and Ms. Hill, respectively.<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"yADgie\" data-copy-service-computed-style=\"font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);\">According to a press release, the new season will find \"<\/span>the Proud family at a life-changing turning point,\" with Penny's courage and identity&nbsp;put to the test as&nbsp;the family navigates challenging and chaotic circumstances.<\/p><p><em>Disney is the parent company of ABC News.<\/em><\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poster for &#8216;The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder&#8217; (Disney)Mariah Carey is returning to The Proud Family, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.She is set to&nbsp;guest star in the fourth and final season of The Proud Family: Louder and Proude&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2429,"featured_media":1516596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/50bae119d8144692ce0de6f864a2cdee.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-entertainment-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 18:33:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/50bae119d8144692ce0de6f864a2cdee.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1516593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516597,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516593\/revisions\/1516597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1516593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1516593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1516593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}