Sicily Sewell Reveals Getting Fired From 'One On One': Speaks On White Cast Joining Show 

You know a show is about to get cancelled when Ray J joins the cast

Spirit, Duane, and Flex were integral parts of the show. Without them the show lost its flavor.

After Spirit left One On One the soul of One On One left. It goes to show the impact certain characters can have on a show...Real talk or major real facts?

She was a KEY element in One On One. Love Sicily

I am happy to say, this young lady appears to be a "Child Hood" Actress, who grew up with morals, and did not let fame dictate her real life. She also realized there was life after Hollywood, and how to move on in a positive manner

Spirit and Dwayne leaving One on One was like Eddie leaving NY Undercover leading to the new casts. Both shows got much whiter and the soul of what the show represented was gone and what a shock both was cancelled the next season

Man, I remember my cousin and I sitting in front of the TV on the first episode back in 2001. We had seen the commercials all summer and were excited to see teenage girls like us on TV. I can't believe it was so long ago. I went through middle school and high school with that show. Everybody used to talk about the episodes the next day in class lol.

I miss UPN!! The CW really dropped the ball because the seasons after 4 was all over the place and don't make me get into the finale! 😔

I miss seeing her face on TV! I've always loved her and her style. I'm glad she's doing well ❤️

Her voice is so nostalgic ❤ Love her authenticity.

I remember the day One on One switched from Baltimore to California and I was a young child. I remember thinking to myself what’s this and I hope it goes back to the original soon😂I was devastated. Without Flex, Spirit, and Duane it didn’t do well not to mention breaking up Breanna and Arnaz was a hot mess considering they spent years chasing each other. The actors we awful, the original cast was on point and perfect.

Really great interview , I can tell she things about every word before she speaks , proud of her growth and wish her more blessings

She’s really really amazing in person. We saw the first Black Panther together and chaperoned her daughters once. Her, her mom, her girls are really cool people

Removing her and Perine ruined the show IMO. Smh

I grew up in a church in LA and the cast of One on One would host our back to school night every year along with the little boy who played Amaud on Soul Food the series. Good times ❤️

The show rested on these 5 main characters, spirits character was brilliant and was well-casted. It’s the fact that her personality stuck out and allowed her character to grow but depicted the ideal of real friendship spirit, breanna, and arnaz was something that no other show will ever experience. Flex and Duane were practically brothers and somehow the relationships between all of them seemed so genuine 🥹

Season 5 was a white wash literally and on top of everything else they added Ray J 🤦🏾‍♂️

Just finished watching all the seasons on Netflix. The clothes, the music, the lingo...great memories. ♥️

I always wondered why she didn't return for season 5..it wasn't the same without her anymore

I loved how she played Spirit. It makes so much sense why their relationship seemed so genuine aside from them being great actors.

Fully convinced that these networks are aware of how much ad revenue Black shows brings the networks but they use that money to create and fund other dry AF shows with no spirit (no pun intended). Then they find excuses to fire casts from Black shows or just find a way to end the show...think about it.

She displayed a different type of Black girl on TV that always existed in real life.

I remember that shift...and I thought the addition of the white characters was so forced, I couldn't watch anymore.. It became an entirely different show, which had very little to do with the previous 4 seasons..it essentially became a new show, which I had no interest in seeing..

The tone of the show definitely changed after Spirit was no longer there. Her character was definitely missed. 💫

My teen age son loves to watch the show on netflix. I'm shocked because I thought he'd see it as old fashioned. I loved this show in high school when it aired on t.v. It was must watch t.v.

Spirit leaving One on One was like when Toni left Girlfriend’s. Show just went down the drain😖

As someone who watched this show in its original run and on syndication and then on Netflix, I feel like Spirit was one of the key elements of the show's success. Knocking off most of the original cast to make way for another version or concept of the show was f****** up. Stuff like what they did to the original cast of One of One was a harbinger of what was to come for 1990s and early to mid 2000s era Black TV shows on UPN.

There are some actors who think their only purpose on this earth is to be on TV or in movies and that's fine, but life is full of possibilities and nuances. I'm glad Sicily Sewell knew that there was more to life than One on One or the acting field.

SPIRIT!!!!❤️❤️❤️ I still rewatch this show in my grown age and absolutely loved her character! Such a beautiful spunky loyal friend! Looking back the depiction of her in some episodes juxtaposed to Kyla's character was a little problematic and played to the tune of colorism, but her beauty shined through it all. So glad to see she's just a beautiful outside of the show! That blizzard❄️ cast that blew in during season 5 removed the soul of the show and was highly unnecessary when the show was still performing well with the original cast smh.

I basically grew with one on one 😢 a lot of us African American girls did I was 10 when it started and 15 when it ended 😢 I really wanted see Brianna finish college but …we all saw what happened and spirit was a big piece of the show 😊

Spirit and Dewayne brought so much life to the show. Taking the two of them off was a big mistake.

The last the season was definitely geared towards a different audience than the previous seasons. Which was a bold move for a established tv show, this is when they learned you can’t create a show for black people and then try to take it away just so you can reach a wider audience. They didn’t make the transition feel natural, Brianna could have at least been having week phone calls with spirit, they tried to make it seem like their relationship never happened.

Loved her character on One on One & Mama Flora's Family ❤

Idgaf where she got "fired" from. Baby fine and, thick, and actually articulates herself well with some sense. Very rare these days. 💪🏾

One on One was my favourite. In the UK it was on cable. Spirit, Dwayne and Tanya were perfect for the show!!

The character "Spirit" was probably the funniest of the crew. Her and Kyla were a hilarious duo☺️☺️☺️ Oh wait! Her, Kyla and Duane🤣

They did not need to gentrify the show the way that they did 🤦🏾‍♀️. Spirit definitely could’ve been Breanna’s roommate in college while studying fashion. I was so irritated that the producers/ creators said that they wanted to focus the show on Breanna & Arnaz’s relationship, instead of Breanna & her dad’s relationship, when that was what the whole show was based on in the first place 💁🏾‍♀️😑

One On One had all the cuties on there Lloyd, Mario, Omarion, Romeo, Common… I miss these days 😢

I’m so glad she’s doing much better now

YOOOOOO THEY GOT SPIRIT ON HERE! She looks GOOD

I can't believe this came out 7 days ago and I'm just seeing it. She sounds exactly how she did on the show. Thank u for bein the soul of the show foreal, 'One on One' just didn't feel right after she left

They did Spirit, Duane and Flex WRONG!! All 4 of them (Kyla included) held that show together it wasn’t the same without the other 3

Spirit Jones was one of my alt black girl sheroes…thanks for bringing her to life.

Good shows never die! Glad to see she’s doing well ❤ she was my fav character ❤

One on One was my shit…we had so many great sitcoms at one point

Thanks for this interview. She is truly lovely!

I loved spirit!!!!

this was just like smart guy one on one had a single father you don't never see that no more on TV

Spirit and Dwayne made the show.

I Loved Spirit!! She was a me deep inside in my heart!!

She was the heart and soul of one on one

I’ve always LOOOVEEED Sicily because of Spirit. This was very insightful 💛

In my opinion Spirit was the Spirit of One on One for me. I loved Breanna and Arnaz's connection but Spirit's humor made them the perfect 3 Amigos. I knew they had to be friends in real life because their chemistry as friends on the show was perfect! Flex and Duane were also funny! So they had the perfect cast, I think if the CW wasn't so racist, and simply allowed a bigger budget to add in extra cast this show would have lasted. But dropping the major fan favorites to add in white actors was so disrespectful to their brand. This was a black show and I would have preferred if it wasn't broken it didn't need to be fixed. If they had to cut Flex and Duane because they wanted to focus on Breanna, Arnaz and Spirit living life on their own as young adults, I would have said cool. Or make them recurring cast, but cutting Spirit was a huge mistake.

I stopped watching after she left. It was so painfully corny after lol

Thank you for this.🥰

Now I know Flex said he's working on something to bring One on One back but if it does happen I hope Paramount Plus thinks about it and we see the Baltimore cast again and they explain what happened after that cliffhanger Finale.

Spirit was everything to me growing up! I crushed so hard on her lol

Love her character 💕

One On One….Forever A UPN Classic…..The First Four Seasons Of One On One were fantastic, but after Duane and spirit left, the show went down the drain and the CW did one on one very dirty….smh….thankfully one on one is on Pluto Tv and Netflix…..

Yes, because I was that Black girl! 🙌🏾💜

Spirit was my favorite character on the show, loved her vibe and fashion 💙

I loved this show and watched it each week. I had a crush on her. Everytime we have good black quality shows (especially during that period), the powers that be find a way to ruin it.

A lot of changes were made in the new seasons. One thing I didn't like was Arnez becoming increasingly more "dumb" as time went on. Like it was a running joke that a lot of things went over his head in the older seasons, but when they had my man drawing a map with some crayons with Brandy's character, it felt peak dumb. Characters like Waldo from Family Matters, Eric from Boy Meets World, they all were protrayed as "dumb" for comic relief when beforehand they were signs of growing masculinity, if not toxic at times. That didn't need to mature into being presented as olfish.

'Oil rags by Spirit!' A gem 😂😂😂🔥

I remember getting laughed at in middle school for saying I was attracted to Spirit

Girl, I was sick to my stomach when they added Dorian to the cast 😮‍💨

what needs to be discussed is how spiritual her performance as young aisha Campbell (the second yellow ranger) was

Don’t forget who played her parents❤

This is truly a Beautiful Conversation ‼️

Spirit always reminded me of my older sis, my cousin and their friends. Peculiar and sassy. :-)

As a little black girl growing up I enjoyed One on One because it showed me characters that looked like me!

They should have never fired her bruh cause she was funny & her character was unique!

They did the same thing with New York Undercover and they suffered the same fate!

She was fine asf on “One on one” I was picturing myself being her love interest on the show. 😂

I literally watched this show and I got inspired by Kyla hair looks in that video & do it on myself. I love that show

I was in love with spirit boi😂

Much Gratitude

One on one got dry after it was in the Cali move without spirit Duane flex in it. It seemed they lost the comic reliefs in the show. They could have had spirit be a reoccurring visitor w her going to fashion school in Cali.

I wonder do Sicily&Kyla still keep in touch with each other them two made the show

I remember first seeing her in How Stella Got Her Groove back as Chantel.

There was also a large black teen audience watching Dawsons Creek.

Love her!!!!!

She aged well 😍😍😍 I don’t understand why they fired her. That’s stupid asf.

Loved her to pieces.

Sicily and I were besties in my head during her time on the show.

I loved me some Spirit

I love her had the biggest crush on her while the show was going on and she is still gorgeous

Currently watching

I think she's a chef now if I'm not mistaken. 💯

A legend!

Man I loved her so much 😢

I loved her and kyla. Good to see her still doing well and looking beautiful. I stopped watching once they did the whole beach house thing

Spirit!!

Honestly Spirit was the glue to the show to me

I loved Spirit ❤

I loved Spirit on the show. One on one was my favorite show I grow up on

She is so beautiful much love to her…

her aura is so beautiful

I'm binge watching One on One now, l like this show...

She is still beautiful.🥰💗