The latest Wizards of Waverly Place reunion was lacking Jake T. Austin, and he’s already able to make up for his absence.
“Wow! Am wanting ahead to getting along with my wizards household,” Austin, 29, wrote through Instagram Story on Saturday, January 27, reposting David DeLuise and David Henrie’s add.
In a Friday, January 26, Instagram pic, DeLuise, 52, and Henrie, 34, had been all smiles as they posed with Selena Gomez and Maria Canals-Barrera.
Wizards of Waverly Place initially aired on Disney Channel between 2007 and 2012, following three Russo siblings balancing magic coaching with regular teen lives in New York Metropolis. Henrie, Gomez, 31, and Austin performed Justin, Alex and Max Russo, respectively. DeLuise and Canals-Barrera, 57, performed dad and mom Jerry and Theresa Russo, respectively, who ran a sub station that had a magical lair within the freezer.
Information broke earlier this month that Henrie and Gomez had been producing a by-product — following the following era of Russo wizards-in-training — for Disney. The brand new present, which presently has a pilot order, will see Henrie and Gomez reprise their roles, as effectively. It isn’t recognized which different OG present stars will return.
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The brand new present will observe a now-adult Justin after he’s given up his magical powers. Whereas he’s targeted on his household, he meets a younger wizard named Billie (Janice LeAnn Brown) in want of a mentor. As Justin helps Billie, he returns to the world of magic.
Whereas it isn’t recognized what Alex or Max have been as much as, the solid has been speculating for years.
“I feel an excellent place to begin the [potential new] present can be the alternative model of that, so you might have someplace to go all through the collection. So, in case you began the present the place the household’s divided, and never united,” Henrie beforehand informed Entry in August 2020, guessing Alex can be “the Meryl Streep of the wizard world” and a significant fashionista and Max can be a sandwich store mogul.
A lot of the Wizards solid stayed shut, apart from Gomez. She beforehand known as dropping contact together with her costars to be the “greatest mistake” of her life up to now.
“I slowly grew to become, like, type of shamed,” Gomez recalled throughout a July 2023 episode of the “Wizards of Waverly Pod” recap podcast. “I felt ashamed of the selections that I made. I didn’t need you guys to see me within the state that was I in. As a result of A: you’d have informed me the reality, which terrifies me. And B: I didn’t need to allow you to down.”
Within the years since leaving the Disney Channel, Gomez publicly struggled together with her psychological well being and was identified with each bipolar dysfunction and Lupus. She additionally went by means of a collection of well-known breakups, together with a number of with ex Justin Bieber. (Gomez is presently courting music producer Benny Blanco.)
