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I'm Stella Zhau; and I say, "Let's do this."

—Stella Zhau, "Kernel of Truth"

Stella Zhau[3][4] (/z/ ZOW; first credited as "New Girl") is a supporting character in The Loud House and a minor character in The Really Loud House. She made her first appearance in "White Hare" with her face not shown, and her later appearance in "Be Stella My Heart" with her face shown.

Background[]

Stella Zhau comes from a family of Filipino descent.[5] Her family moved to Royal Woods, and Stella was enrolled to Royal Woods Elementary School. After befriending Lincoln Loud in "White Hare", she eventually becomes one of his closest friends and a part of his friend group in "Be Stella My Heart". In Season 5, she and the gang move to middle school.

Early life[]

Stella lived in a different town during her early childhood. At her old elementary school, Stella accidentally called her teacher "mommy" while speaking at an assembly for Teacher Appreciation Week. This caused all of the other students to make fun of her and as a result, Stella developed a fear of public speaking. At some point during her fifth grade year, she and her family moved to Royal Woods.

Appearance[]

Stella is a tall and slender Filipina-American girl,[5] with tan skin, freckles, black hair that curls up at the back end with two strands of hair standing out, two pairs of eyelashes, and noticeably slanted eyes.

Her main attire consists of a white short-sleeved sweater with a red star in the middle and red sleeve cuffs and collar, a knee-long black skirt, white knee-high socks with a red and blue stripe at the top, and green sneakers. She also wears a wristwatch on her right hand and a red hair clip on the back of her head.

When Stella was younger, her shirt was similar to her current one except that it had a red flower in place of the star and wore her hair with thick pigtails.

In "White Hare", she originally wore an orange headband with a bow, and had her hair tied up in a bun. Her face was not shown.

In The Really Loud House, Stella is shown with longer hair.

Personality[]

Stella is a studious girl, expressing interest in going to a science fair[6] and having an enjoyment of IT.[1] She will also sometimes serve as the voice of reason -- for instance, in "Be Stella My Heart" she calls the boys out for assuming she has a crush on one of them just because she is a girl, and in "How the Best Was Won", she and Liam are the only two members of the friend group not to get into a fight. However, she is still capable of getting into fights, as seen in "Grub Snub".

She is also somewhat athletic, as she is shown to be skilled at laser tag and dodgeball. Much like her friends, she also enjoys playing video games.

Alternate versions[]

New Girl[]

Main article: Loud rabbits#New Girl
New Girl rabbit

In "White Hare", Lincoln dreams of meeting the new girl as a rabbit.

The rabbit version of Stella is a brown rabbit with an orange dress. Warren attempts to impress her with questions and kelp smoothies, but he ends up embarrassing himself while doing so, effectively frustrating the new girl. She eventually left with the Big Kid, leaving Warren embarrassed.

This version of Stella ultimately ceases to exist after Lincoln wakes up due to her being part of a dream. However, it does influence Lincoln in telling him not to act towards her the way he did in his dream.

World without the Loud Kids[]

In an alternate reality where Lynn Sr. and Rita never had kids as seen in "Time Trap!", Stella appears as one of Chandler's friends.

Trivia[]

  • Her name means "star" in Latin, which may explain the star on her shirt.
  • According to Darin McGowan, Stella is of Filipino descent.[5]
    • She is the first Nickelodeon character to be of Filipino descent.
  • Kevin Sullivan has confirmed that Stella was, in fact, the new girl that was introduced in "White Hare". He states that Stella went through a character redesign during production of "Be Stella My Heart".[citation needed]
  • She is one of the few human characters on the show with no visible detailing on her teeth.
  • As of "White Hare" and prior to meeting her friends, she's a new resident in Royal Woods.
    • Stella would have moved to Royal Woods whether the Loud siblings existed or not.[7]
  • Stella is the first non-Loud family member to receive her name on a title card.
  • Stella is the only female member of Lincoln Loud's friend group and the group's only member to not debut in Season 1 (she instead debuted in Season 3).
  • Following her proper debut in "Be Stella My Heart", she made only two more appearances in Season 3.[note 5]
  • Stella is the only one of Lincoln's friends to have never met Ronnie Anne, due to the former moving in after the latter moved out.
  • She loves tech and always wants to dismantle electronics and put them back together.[1]
  • She finds magic shows boring.[8]
  • She revealed her surname in "Kernel of Truth".[4]
  • She uses bobby pins for her hair.[9]
  • According to Zach, she may speak three languages.[10] However, that information is dubious since he got it from a third party.
    • In "Saved by the Spell", she thanks Clyde, Liam, Rusty and Zach in German,[11] implying this is one of the three languages she speaks.
  • She is shown to be very skilled at skeeball[12] and yodeling.[13]
  • She likes Italian food.[14]
  • Prior to the end of "A Stella Performance", she was glossophobic due to accidentally referring to her teacher at her previous school as her "mommy" instead of her "mentor" during an assembly.[15]
  • Of the thirteen Season 6 episodes in which she appears,[note 6] she has dialogue in only seven of them.[note 7]
  • So far "The Taunting Hour" and "The Loud Cloud" are the only episodes where she appears without Clyde.
  • She, Rita, Lynn, Mr. Grouse, Ronnie Anne, Bobby and Mick Swagger are the only characters whose faces weren't shown in their debut appearances.

Videos[]

Notes[]

  1. Hunnicutt, Liam (September 25, 2020). "Kernel of Truth" (in English). The Loud House. Season 5. Episode 4b. Nickelodeon. "I don't know fellers and Stellers, I think we're on a goose chase."
  2. Zhau, Stella (January 22, 2021). "Saved by the Spell" (in English). The Loud House. Season 5. Episode 7b. Nickelodeon. "[as Yodel Boy] I had a normal name: Johann Johananananananan."
  3. "White Hare" (in English). The Loud House. Season 3. Episode 2b. February 2, 2018. Nickelodeon.
  4. "Be Stella My Heart" (in English). The Loud House. Season 3. Episode 15b. August 2, 2018. Nickelodeon.
  5. These appearances being in "Predict Ability" and "Antiqued Off".
  6. These episodes being "Present Danger", "Don't Escar-go", "Save Royal Woods!", "The Taunting Hour", "Musical Chairs", "All the Rage", "Scoop Snoop", "Time Trap!", "Save the Last Pants", "A Stella Performance", "The Loud Cloud", "Snow News Day" and "The Hurt Lockers".
  7. These episodes being "Don't Escar-go", "All the Rage", "Scoop Snoop", "Save the Last Pants", "A Stella Performance", "Snow News Day" and "The Hurt Lockers".

Sources[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Loud and Proud
  2. Gurdle, Zach (September 5, 2022). "A Stella Performance" (in English). The Loud House. Season 6. Episode 15b. Nickelodeon. "I'll go to Stella's house and check the tape, just to be sure."
  3. McGowan, Darin [@Asylum_26] (Sep 24, 2020). "Hey - sorry I’m not on the Twitter so much these days. Yeah - Zhau. Not Zoo. Captioning error most likely. 👍" (Post). Archived from the original on 2020-10-06. Retrieved 2020-10-02 – via X (formerly Twitter).
  4. 4.0 4.1 Zhau, Stella (September 25, 2020). "Kernel of Truth" (in English). The Loud House. Season 5. Episode 4b. Nickelodeon. "I'm Stella Zhau, and I say; let's do this."
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Bernard, Frank (August 10, 2019). Nickelodeon Confirms FILIPINA Character! (English) (Video). YouTube. Frank Bernard YouTube channel. Archived from the original on 2022-06-06. Retrieved on 2024-01-17. “Darin McGowan email: 'Yes, Stella on Loud House is Filipina - confirmed by our writers. I'm afraid I don't have much more info than that though! But yes - confirmed. :)'”
  6. "A Stella Performance"
  7. "Time Trap!" (in English). The Loud House. Season 6. Episode 12. June 3, 2022. Nickelodeon.
  8. Zhau, Stella (March 7, 2019). "Antiqued Off" (in English). The Loud House. Season 3. Episode 25b. Nickelodeon. "The truth is, I think magic is... boring."
  9. "Kernel of Truth" (in English). The Loud House. Season 5. Episode 4b. September 25, 2020. Nickelodeon.
  10. Gurdle, Zach (August 2, 2018). "Be Stella My Heart" (in English). The Loud House. Season 3. Episode 15b. Nickelodeon. "And I hear she [Stella] speaks three languages."
  11. Zhau, Stella (January 22, 2021). "Saved by the Spell" (in English). The Loud House. Season 5. Episode 7b. Nickelodeon. "Danke."
  12. "Grub Snub" (in English). The Loud House. Season 5. Episode 16a. May 28, 2021. Nickelodeon.
  13. "Snow News Day" (in English). The Loud House. Season 6. Episode 23b. December 20, 2022. Nickelodeon.
  14. "Schooled!" (in English). The Loud House. Season 5. Episode 1/2. September 11, 2020. Nickelodeon.
  15. "A Stella Performance" (in English). The Loud House. Season 6. Episode 15b. September 5, 2022. Nickelodeon.


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