BLOOMINGTON, Minn. � Miranda Cosgrove appeared to be a typical 15-year-old shopper � applying the latest flavor of lip rubric at the cosmetics counter � take out most of the other Nordstrom customers on a recent afternoon weren't accompanied by security guards and didn't have the power to make youngsters audibly gasp.
Cosgrove stars in Nickelodeon's "iCarly," a series about a tech-savvy teen wHO creates her own Internet show, which could be described as "Wayne's World" for hip girls.
Further trial impression of the show's popularity was on display at the Mall of America's Rotunda, where more than 600 screaming teenagers collected to scram autographs from Cosgrove and snap pictures with their digital cameras and cellphones.
Cosgrove played the scheming sister in the hit Nickelodeon series "Drake & Josh," had a scene-stealing character as the no-nonsense band manager in "School of Rock" and has a record parcel out with Columbia Records.
But during a half-hour shopping trip right ahead the autograph session, it was clear that Cosgrove is more or less a typical teen. She's addicted to "The Hills." She aforementioned she loves purple. And her worse nightmare is accidentally departure her cellular phone at base on Friday afternoons because she's apprehensive she'll be left proscribed of her friends' weekend plans.
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