Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage has been able to bring back many Young Sheldon alums — except for country music icon Reba McEntire.
While speaking exclusively to Us Weekly at CBS Fest, Montana Jordan noted that their sitcom “had just about everybody” from Young Sheldon “except for” Iain Armitage, who played the titular role.
“But we’ll bring Reba McEntire back. Get her over here!” Jordan, 22, suggested, to which Emily Osment replied, “Oh, I would love to see Reba.”
After receiving a renewal for Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage following their debut season, Jordan and Osment, 33, couldn’t be more excited about continuing their story.
“When you get on a show like this and everybody’s so kind [is the best part]. At the end of the day, it’s like a family,” Jordan told Us. “When you go into work and it’s like a family, you have a ball and you have a blast. It doesn’t even feel like work at the end of the day. So that’s really great.”
The Big Bang Theory created a franchise when the OG show aired from 2007 to 2019. It starred Jim Parsons — as adult Sheldon Cooper — as well as Kaley Cuoco, Johnny Galecki, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch as a group of friends made up of physicists and their significant others.
Following a successful CBS run, The Big Bang Theory branched off with a prequel series starring Armitage, 16, in the role of Sheldon when he was a child prodigy growing up in Texas. McEntire, 70, for her part, played a hairstylist named June. The universe got even bigger with Sheldon’s older brother, Georgie (Jordan), scoring a spinoff with Mandy (Osment).
“We didn’t want to take away from the ending of Young Sheldon,” Jordan told Us exclusively in October 2024 about properly ending Young Sheldon before shifting focus. “For seven years we were on Young Sheldon, and we didn’t want to just short America by just getting rid of it and going to this new show. So we took our time and finished filming that.”
Jordan was excited to have a built-in fan base while still capturing the attention of new viewers, adding, “You can watch Young Sheldon without knowing anything about The Big Bang Theory. And I believe you can watch this new show without watching Young Sheldon. It’s a new start. We’re starting a new thing and you get to follow Georgie and Mandy as they go through all these trials and errors in life. It’s a very relatable topic and everybody knows about it and it’s not a secret.”
At the time, Jordan also addressed the age gap between Georgie and Mandy. (After meeting during season 5 of The Big Bang Theory prequel, Georgie, who was 17 at the time, lied that he was 21, while 29-year-old Mandy pretended to be 25.)
“It gives Georgie somewhere to go,” Jordan noted. “In this new show, Georgie finally gets to show that he’s not just this dumb kid. He actually does have a brain on him. And on Young Sheldon, I’m sure he got overlooked a lot. Maybe him being the tire king is his way of showing and proving people that he is not this dumb kid [but a mature adult]. He actually has some brains on him.”
Despite Georgie turning 20 in the first season, the quips keep coming and Osment even shared some of her favorite, telling Us at CBS Fest, “Jokes about how old I am, how youthful Montana [Jordan] is and how he’s got so much more life ahead of him than I do.”
Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage airs on CBS Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET.
