Jake Paul claims Disney didn\u2019t fire him after Bizaardvark controversy Instagram: Jake PaulJake Paul has dismissed new claims he was fired by Disney back in 2017 during his stint on sitcom Bizaardvark, addressing the three-and-a-half-year-old controversy in a recent interview. Jake Paul, while juggling his YouTube and Vine antics back in 2017, was fast-becoming one of Disney\u2019s biggest stars. The then 20-year-old played Dirk Mann on the sitcom Bizaardvark for two seasons. However, his stay on the set was cut abruptly short in June 2017. He parted ways with the project, and there was a mixed reaction. Back then, Jake Paul said that he and Disney \u201ccame to the agreement\u201d to mutually part ways. However, others have claimed the star was fired over a series of controversies, including a news segment that saw neighbours complain about the then-Disney star. Paul has rubbished those claims though. He doubled down on his initial statement three years ago, saying that he played along with the community sentiment as a joke. \u201cIt\u2019s funny because, for the last three years I\u2019ve sort of ran with everyone saying, \u201cOh, he got fired,\u201d just because I think it\u2019s funnier to say, \u201cI got fired by Disney,\u201d but in reality it was a mutual decision to split from each other,\u201d he told The Daily Beast. The decision was purely a business one, according to Paul. He wanted more money, and Disney wasn\u2019t offering it. \u201cThey weren\u2019t paying me enough. I was making millions more \u2014 per week \u2014 than I was on that show, and it was a mutual decision for us to split up,\u201d he added. \u201cEveryone I worked with on that show was fantastic, but from a business standpoint it didn\u2019t make sense. I was aging up and wanted more money.\u201d Jake Paul has since gone on to grow his career on YouTube, even expanding into boxing the likes of AnEsonGib on a Mike Tyson card, something the younger Paul brother said was the highlight of his life. However, the real reasoning behind his parting with Disney will always be questioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul claims Disney didn\u2019t fire him after Bizaardvark controversy Instagram: Jake PaulJake Paul has dismissed new claims he was fired by Disney back in 2017 during his stint on sitcom Bizaardvark, addressing the three-and-a-half-year-old controversy in a recent interview. Jake Paul, while juggling his YouTube and Vine antics back in 2017, was fast-becoming one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}