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After going easy on famous faces in its first two seasons, the sitcom went all in on the guest roles in season three.

As for now-retired Jason Kelce, O’Brien had cast him before for other projects, including It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and he’s “just pretty much always up for everything.” They rounded out the trio with Brandon Graham, who was the longest-tenured Eagle who “wasn’t too shy.” It was a live feed from the Philadelphia Eagles office to the Warner Bros. lot where the players were “really interacting with the kids and the cast.” O’Brien jokes that she’s since became a pseudo-agent for Kelce, with people reaching out to her on how to get a hold of him: “He’s very popular.” The sitcom princess, who played Ashley on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, secured her spot in the Abbott world as Ava’s former sorority sister and current rival via the more traditional route.

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