Dylan Sprouse is going viral over what he didn’t say

Kim Rhodes is going viral for revealing a fat joke that her former co-star Dylan Sprouse was meant to make at her expense – and his surprising reaction.

Actor Kim Rhodes has revealed the fat joke that her former co-star Dylan Sprouse wouldn’t make at her expense.

Rhodes, 54, is arguably most famous for her role as Carey Martin on the Disney channel hit The Suite Life of Zach and Cody, which starred twins Cole and Dylan Sprouse, and she played their mum.

The series started in 2005, ran for three years, and became one of the channel’s flagship shows.

The twins were only 13 when the sitcom took off, and Rhodes opened up about her relationship with the teen actors while filming.

In the popular podcast Back to the Best, Rhodes said that although they were only young at the time, the Sprouse brothers “defended” her through filming.

She's revealed the fat joke he wouldn’t say. Picture: TikTok

The story has now gone viral. Picture: TikTok

To drive home her point, she shared a story about when Dylan refused to tell a joke written for him.

Rhodes recalled that she fell pregnant during filming, and the adults creating the show dealt with it by commenting on her changing body and writing fat jokes at her expense.

She explained that one of her “favourite” memories is when her young co-star flat-out refused to play into body shaming as a form of comedy.

“Dylan had a line that was a fat joke, and he kept skipping over it. It was like in the middle of a chunk of dialogue. So he kept skipping this laugh line,” she said.

Dylan and Cole were child actors.

They are now 31. Picture: Instagram/DylanSprouse

Rhodes explained that because he kept missing the line, he ended up getting in trouble because of it.

“Finally, we get in front of the studio audience, and he skips it, and the executive producer screams and says ‘cut.’ And it’s the director’s job to cut, so he goes, ‘Cut! Dylan say the line!’ and he goes, ‘I would not disrespect any woman that way. Let alone this woman. You write something funny, and I’ll say it.’”

Rhodes gushed about the experience and said the twins were her “little men” who always sided with her.

He refused to tell a fat joke. Picture: Marc Piasecki/Getty Images for Balenciaga

Dylan has become a successful adult actor. Picture: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Armani beauty

Dylan’s refusal to make the gross joke has now gone viral and amassed over seven million views on TikTok, and plenty of fans are gushing about him online.

“He was a child and still knew better than most adults,” one praised.

“In a world of Matt Rife’s be a Dylan Sprouse,” another advised.

“Best story I’ve ever heard,” one claimed.

“This is so wholesome,” another observed.

“The world is going crazy, and people still do fat jokes,” another wrote.

It is rare in 2023 for a man to go viral for doing the right thing, but Dylan has managed to pull it off.

The Sprouse twins have both gone on to have successful acting careers as adults; Dylan, who married Hungarian model Barbara Palvin earlier this year, has starred in movies like Beautiful Disaster and After We Collided, and Cole is most famous for starring in the hit television series Riverdale.

Originally published as Dylan Sprouse is going viral over what he didn’t say