His Mother´s mugshot makes her statement understandable. Wonder how he got into church at all.

Exploited???
He has the intelligence to know filth when he sees it, MOTHER !
That was no RANT, it was an honest statement of fact. What was extraordinary was his willingness to speak the truth.
AND the inability of the mother to see an extraordinary young man to be proud of.

He´s 19 years old and is a legal adult. He´s been on the show, what? Ten years? I wonder--at $350,000 per episode--just who is exploiting whom?

As I mentioned the other day, his comments may make it tough come contract re-negotiation. Could someone be worried about losing a meal ticket?

From my limited personal exposure through some friends when I lived in CA ... Seventh Day Adventists appear to be a perfectly normal Protestant denomination. She sent her son to an Adventist school.

Nothing unusual about them at all.

The Seventh Day Adventists are a Christian denomination with some eccentric beliefs and practices (as opposed to the Jehovah´s Witnesses and the Mormons who are psuedo-Christian rather than actually Christian). The most interesting thing about the Seventh Day Adventists is that they started out as a psuedo-Christian cult, but the Spirit of God transformed them into what they are today.

Yeah...she fears a loss of payola for herself, I´m sure.

What the church does or doesn´t do isn´t the issue. The issue is: look at the show. Is it idiotic filth that degenerates the minds of viewers, or is it not?

Where people are particularly stupid is that it took the child star telling them so for them to realize it.

As opposed to being exploited by Hollywood´s perverts?

Sounds like a step up to me...

Hopefully Angus has control of his money and is saving it wisely because I doubt he´ll ever see a penny from when his parents controlled it. Poor guy pulled a short straw on parents - I hope he finds peace and guidance and lives a better life than his family.

P.S. The show is, and always has been, filth.

Good for you, Angus.

That show IS vile.

Should be good for a modest boost in the number of viewers.

She´d have preferred he stayed on the Charlie Sheen path? Someone´s been exploiting this kid, that´s for sure.

Many contemporary shows are vile, worthless, and absolute wastes of time. When I scan through TV while in a hotel room these shows just jump out at you with how moronic they are. Those of you who have grown up with TV can´t see this many times because you´ve been dumbed down to TVs level. Do yourself a favor and get rid of your TV. Go read a book!

We knew, didn´t we L.dotters, that the reporters would be dashing out there to FIND somebody to try and discount this young man´s words. Right...always a good one, blame his church!!!

"Extraordinary religious rant" Yeah! Thanks mom! And your fear? Losing the $350k per episode? It won´t slake your thirst in the everlasting fire. Oh, but that "fire" mentioned by another ranter 2000 years ago is nothing to fear when you have ratings.

Hell hath no fury like a woman who sees her meal ticket drying up and blowing away. Angus´ mom only cares about the income he generates.

"Oh brudder! There goes my bread and butter!"

Bugs Bunny

"Rant" is the tabloid Daily Mail writers´ language.

Hopefully he has been saving some of the $350K he has been receiving per episode. His prospects as an adult actor are pretty slim, and not because of his religion.

You could spend hours listing all of the successful child actors who became broke adult drug addicts or worse. You can count on one hand all of the successful child actors who became successful adult anythings.

I´ve never seen this show and never intend to, but he says it´s filth, but he has no problem acting in it for $350K/episode? OK, whatever.

Good for him. I guess the secularists would rather he become a drug addict.

He started on the show as a child. He´s an adult now and it seems a discerning one. I bet there´s a book in there somewhere. I watched a few episodes before I came to the same conclusion he has. And I wondered how much he understood as a boy in some of those episodes.

The kid´s more credible in his Christian witness than Hillary.

This kid saw a whole lot more filth going on behind the scenes, when all we saw was what got televised.

It should come as no surprise that he eventually got his fill and rejected it.

He is on that show as a small child, with Charlie Sheen for a long time. The show is not appropriate for children to watch, let alone star on. These are his wishes, let him leave the show and return his millions/donate it to charity

Pretty harsh, #20. He´s only now 19? So he took awhile--he wasn´t that aware as a 12 year old? That´s your gripe? I´m guessing he´s under contract. You suggesting he pull a Sheen, violate his contract and get into a bitter legal fight? Or that he honor his commitment like a man, then decide what to do when he´s a free agent again.

He´s biting the hand that feeds him in the name of Christ. I find it hard to mock that.

There are Christians working in Hollywood. That amazes me.

We may be seeing the Spirit working in an amazing way in his life. He needs our prayers as a new believer.

He is in our prayers.
Courage, young man. Philippians 4:12-13 Christ will BE your strength as He gives you Wisdom.

That "kid" is worth $20 to $30 million and he is hardly is in the show!

He is right the shows pure trash.

RE: #26 - I wasn´t intending to be harsh; I truly don´t understand the paradox. And actors leave shows all the time. He obviously had no choice when he was a child (I don´t guess if he had a stage mother or whatever), but he does now. Contract or no, he could walk.

He would not have been able to perform - to enter into a contract - without his parents´ permission. At least one of them undoubtedly signed him up when he was 9 years old (if he is 19 now - with actors you are never sure). In California he has only been an "adult" for one year.

He is obviously reaching his adulthood now, which for him includes seeking and finding a religion that is comfortable for him and living a life that feels right.

How anyone can criticize a child for having performed for years and then seeing the light as he reaches legal adulthood is beyond me. (That fool Shep Smith questioned his veracity because he stayed on the show. That tells us a lot.)

One could make a fair assumption that, based upon the fact that programs of this kind - like movies - are not shot in one continuous filming, he was most often unaware of the other parts of the programs (in which he was not involved or which involved the more prurient behaviors by the adult cast members. Laws are such that I have a hunch he was protected. I believe actors who are minors must have a guardian on the set at all times.

Whether he ever saw the programs when he was a child, we just don´t know.

We have no knowledge of whether he ever told his parents before this that he wanted to not be on this program.

Now he knows. Now he understands. That is enough for me.

A minor must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian at all times when performing. They are members of SAG-AFTRA (the union of which Ronald Reagan was president) and a union member must also be on the set to make sure that the parent has access to their child.

Their wages are protected by the Coogan Act. Fifteen percent of their wages belong to the child alone, held in trust. If any of this set-aside is used by their parents, it is considered stealing. (At $350K per performance, Angus was indeed a cash cow for his parents!)

http://www.sagaftra.org/content/coogan-law

Regarding appropriateness of the venue, that is up to the parents.

10. Parents should consider the impact of mature or emotionally difficult dialogue or actions on their child’s well being. Only the parent knows what their child can tolerate and therefore MUST ensure their well-being.

http://www.sagaftra.org/content/safety-tips

(cont´d)
And the SAG-AFTRA site cautions children that they should only perform if they want to.

I find it "interesting" that the article ends with a rogues´ gallery of criminal relatives of this young man - a sort of guilt by association. Wonder if this postlude would have been tacked on had Angus "ranted" that he had become, say, a practicing homosexual. Something tells me "not".

I have mixed feelings about this. Why say this at this time if he has been going to church for years ? Did he tithe to the church ? His smom and the church will both miss that money.

What Hollyweird will hire him after this ? Let´s hope he has plan B in place. Best of luck to him.

His mom and dad both seem like pieces of work. They´ve probably been exploiting him for his income for years.