Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage has cast two more returning Young Sheldon characters. The upcoming Young Sheldon spinoff is set to follow Sheldon Cooper’s (Iain Armitage) older brother Georgie (Montana Jordan) after he moves in with his wife Mandy (Emily Osment), and the young parents attempt to navigate a new marriage and raising a family. The show, which is the second spinoff from The Big Bang Theory, will be part of the Fall 2024 season, continuing the timeline of the prequel show, which will end with its season 7 finale.
Per Deadline, cast members Will Sasso and Rachel Bay Jones will be reprising their roles as Mandy’s parents Jim and Audrey McAllister on Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage. They will be series regulars appearing as part of the main cast of the show. Both actors made their Young Sheldon debuts in season 6, episode 7, “A Tougher Nut and a Note on File,” with Sasso (2012’s The Three Stooges) reprising his role for 9 total episodes and Jones (Ben is Back) reprising hers for 10.
Everything This Casting Reveals About Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage
The Young Sheldon Spinoff Isn’t Forgetting Where It Came From
Before this new update, no other members of the Young Sheldon cast had been set to reprise their roles in Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage beyond Jordan and Osment. It’s possible that upgrading these recurring characters to the main cast of the spinoff could open the floodgates for more possible returns, whether they come as cameos, recurring appearances, or even regular roles. However, bringing back Sasso and Jones could also indicate that the show is moving away from the Coopers in general.
Emily Osment originally joined the cast of Young Sheldon as a recurring character in season 5 before becoming a series regular from season 6 onward.
By elevating Mandy’s parents to the main cast, the new Big Bang Theory spinoff seems to indicate where its centerpoint lies. Instead of doing what the previous show did, which was siloing out Jim Parsons’ character Sheldon Cooper and expanding on his early life, this new show seems to be eschewing the Coopers and instead expanding the world of Mandy now that Georgie’s has been more or less fully explored. It is possible that most of the incoming characters, whether new or familiar, will be people from Mandy’s life rather than her husband’s.
This type of casting could help Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage succeed in the long run. By introducing a host of characters who are less familiar to Georgie, this could highlight the isolation he feels as a new father who is separated from his immediate family. While it seems highly likely that other characters will return in some capacity, keeping the Coopers out of the main cast could help give the show an entirely different feel from either of the series that came before it, keeping the format fresh.
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More Characters Are Needed To Fill Out The Spinoff’s Cast
The brief Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage trailer did not offer further insight into who else might be joining the spinoff’s title characters. However, if the rest of the casting follows suit with this latest update, several more characters can be expected to join the show. The most important returning character would be Georgie and Mandy’s daughter Constance “CeeCee” Cooper, who was played alternately by real babies and a doll and will likely be a major part of every episode of the upcoming show, though there isn’t a necessity for any infant performers to return to reprise the role.
It is possible that the spinoff will fill out the remainder of the main cast almost entirely with Mandy’s family. Other than her child and her parents, the other most important character that this would involve would be her younger brother Connor (Joe Apollonio), with whom she had a similar relationship to Georgie and Sheldon. Apollonio only played the role in one season 6 episode, so it’s not out of the question that the character would be recast, though so far the inter-show consistency indicates that producers may reach out to Apollonio should the character be part of the spinoff.
| Joe Apollonio’s Best Known Projects Outside Young Sheldon | |
|---|---|
| Title | Role |
| High Fidelity (2020) | Band Guy |
| Betty (2020-2021) | Joe |
| FBI (2021) | Tim Davis |
| Hacks (2022) | Eric |
| My Animal (2023) | Otto |
| FBI: International (2024) | Jake Hill |
Beyond those two additional characters, it seems likely that Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage will begin to fill out the cast with new original characters should this trend toward focusing on Mandy’s family and friends continue. This could still include mentioned but unseen characters like Mandy’s uncle William McAllister, but it could expand to characters from Mandy’s school and work life. Given how quickly casting has come together for the project, it seems that more news will drop soon, offering further insight into the world of the new show.
