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YARA SHAHIDI’S MASTER CLASS

A YOUNG STAR GROWS UP, ON AND OFF CAMERA
black-ish star Shahidi is getting her own spin-off, grown-ish, before heading off to college herself next fall

MOST TEENAGERS WOULD TRADE THEIR smartphones for the opportunity Yara Shahidi is getting: a trial run at her first few months of college. The actor who plays Zoey, the eldest daughter of the Johnson family on the ABC sitcom black-ish, will star in a spin-off, grown-ish, about a group of students at a fictional California college. The show launches on Jan. 3 on Freeform before Shahidi heads off to Harvard

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