Keri Russell reveals: ‘sexual activity’ meant the end of the Mickey Mouse Club

Keri Russell says that for the girls in the All New Mickey Mouse Club, the limit was reached when they looked “like they were sexually active.”

In this week’s episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s podcast “Dinner’s on Me,” the Emmy-nominated star looked back on her time as a cast member on Disney’s variety show “All-New Mickey Mouse Club.”

“Was there an age limit after your 17th birthday?” asked Ferguson Russell, who appeared on the show in the early 1990s between the ages of 15 and 17.

“Yeah, usually it’s girls who look like they’re sexually active, and I was probably one of the first,” the Diplomat star said. “They’re like, ‘She’s out. Oh, she’s out.’ Pregnant Mouseketeers are not on the list.”

Meanwhile, “the boys stayed until they were 19,” she said. “I was like, ‘By the way, I had sex with this person, so I know they had sex.’ Seriously.”

The all-new Mickey Mouse Club included a host of now-famous faces, including Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling and Christina Aguilera. Russell appeared in seasons 4 through 6 alongside JC Chasez, Dale Godboldo, Rhona Bennett, Josh Ackerman and Nikki Deloach.

The show was revived three times after its original broadcast from 1955 to 1959 on ABC, first from 1977 to 1979 as “The New Mickey Mouse Club”, then from 1989 to 1996 as “The All-New Mickey Mouse Club”, and again from 2017 to 2018 under the name “Club Mickey Mouse” on social media on the Internet.