SECRET LIFE OF THE AMERICAN TEENAGER's 5th Season to be its Last

As Deadline Hollywood reported earlier this evening, the fifth season of ABC Family's THE SECRET LIFE OF THE AMERICAN TEENAGER will also be its final one. 

SECRET LIFE premiered in June 2008, and was created by 7TH HEAVEN's Brenda Hampton. The show's final season, consisting of 12 episode, will begin airing in March.

The series' cast includes Shailene Woodley, who starred alongside George Clooney in 2011's THE DESCENDANTS, Ken Baumann, Greg Finley, Daren Kagasoff, Megan Park, Francia Raisa, Michael Grant, Cierra Ramirez with Steve Schirripa.

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