Happy Friday, my friend! Over the next few months, we’re going to do little check-ins on a few niche CanCon icons and find out whatever happened to…
Sugar AKA Suga AKA Suga BayBee
For most Canadian millennial children, Sugar Lyn Beard (formerly Stephanie Lyn Beard) is most recognizable as one of the hosts of the Zone on YTV. And if her face doesn’t jog your memory, her distinctly squeaky voice will. In addition to busting on screen between your after-school cartoons and singing as part of Nuclear Donkey on your YTV Big Fun Party Mix CDs—which someone has done the lord’s work and compiled on Spotify in its entirety—Sugar is probably best known for voicing the small pink one on Sailor Moon.
But what happened to Sugar after she left the Zone? When I posed this question to the internet, someone replied to tell me that they’d heard a rumour about a sexy video that got her booted off of Canada’s hippest children’s network (which might have been a reference to this).
Turns out Sugar’s been doing just fine, and probably just decided around 30 that maybe she should try something else, which seems fair.
She’s also very much still acting! She’s had roles on Weeds, The Mindy Project, You’re the Worst, and Drunk History (!) and you may have recognized her squeak in Sausage Party as the baby carrots who are massacred at the beginning of the movie, and as Jeanie in Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates alongside Aubrey Plaza, Anna Kendrick, Adam DeVine and Zac Efron.
TL;DR
Canadian childhood icon of the 2000’s, Sugar, is now in her forties, is still acting in big things you probably just didn’t recognize her in and being tagged in Sailor Moon fan art on instagram. Truly couldn’t be happier for her and her adorable dog.
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We’re going to take a trip down Much Music memory lane. Who shaped your adolescent musical obsessions? Rick the Temp? George Strombo? Sook-Yin Lee? It’s okay to admit to me that you took a picture of Devon Soltendieck to the salon. It’ll be our little secret.