Pretty Little Liars is now in its 6th season. Throughout those six seasons, we’ve learned quite a few secrets about the show, the cast and, of course, the many characters of Rosewood. As we get ready for Season 6B, premiering on January 12, 2016, it’s a good time to refresh our memories with a few facts about Pretty Little Liars. These are also great quick facts for explaining the show to someone who hasn’t seen it (although honestly, how do you explain a show like this?).
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Facts About Pretty Little Liars
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- While the show revolves around teenagers, the cast members are actually not teenagers. Well one of them is, the youngest is Sasha Pieterse, who plays Alison. She’s is 19 years old now. Ashley Benson was 19 when the show started, making her the only other actual teenager on the show during the first year. The oldest cast member is Troian Bellisario, who plays Spencer, is 29 years old. The other cast members ages are 28 year olds Shay Michell (Emily), Ian Harding (Ezra) and Tyler Blackburn (Caleb), 26-year-olds Janel Parrish (Mona) and Lucy Hale (Aria), and Keegan Allen (Toby). and 25 year old Ashley Benson (Hanna).
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- Three of the cast members were not born in the United States: Sasha Pieterse was born in South Africa, Ian Harding was born in Germany and Shay Mitchell was born in Canada.
- The cast may have been a bit different since some cast members actually auditioned for other roles. For instance, Shay Mitchell (Emily) originally auditioned for the role of Spencer, Lucy Hale (Aria) originally auditioned for the role of Hanna and both Tammin Sursok (Jenna) and Janel Parrish (Mona) originally auditioned for the role of Spencer.
- According to the website, Deadline, the January 7, 2014 return of Season 4, received more Tweets than any other season premiere in TV history. There were 1.3 million tweets from close to 700,000 Twitter users, equaling to around 30,000 Tweets every minute of the show.
- Alison’s signature red lipstick shade is called Jungle Red by NARS Cosmetics
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- Troian Bellisario’s father is television producer, Donald Bellisario. He produced TV shows such as Magnum, P.I. from 1980-1988, Quantum Leap from 1989-1993, JAG from 1995-2005 and NCIS
from 2003 to present.
- Aria has cheated on 3 out of the 4 boyfriends she had on the show. While she had a one-night stand with Riley and she kissed Jason and Wesley. Aria has had 4 boyfriends: Ezra, Jake, Noel and Andrew. The only one she didn’t cheat on was Andrew. She cheated on Jake and Noel with Ezra and she cheated on Ezra with Jason and Wesley. Check out the many loves of Aria to learn more!
My step daughter loves Pretty little liars I’ll have to share this post with her.
How fun is this? Fans of the show are going to love this trivia facts.
I’ve never seen this show, but it sounds interesting from your post!
My daughter read the PLL book series. I think she watched the show for a while too.
My daughter started watching this on Netflix a while back but I don’t think she ever finished the series? I’ll have to show her this post, I have never watched this though 🙁
This is really interesting. It’s pretty crazy how many tweets the show was getting. It sounds like season 4 had a great premiere.
I’ve got to show this to my daughter. She watches Pretty Little Liars religiously.
The more I hear about this show, the more I feel I have to watch it! It sounds great!
I’ve been meaning to start watching the season but haven’t had the time. It’s fun to lean these little facts. I always thought they were all teen heheh
Pretty Little Liars has been one of our favorite shows on Netflix & those little facts are quiet interesting as well. My kids are going to be so much excited about this new season for sure.
I know quite a few people that watch this show! I’ve not watched it myself but you’ve made it sound interesting. Might have to check it out.