Selena Gomez is returning to Waverly Place for another season on Sept. 12, nearly 20 years after her Disney Channel journey began.

The 8x Golden Globe nominee, who stars as Alex Russo on the Disney Channel ‘s Wizards of Waverly Place (2007-’12) and the current reboot Wizards Beyond Waverly Place , recently recalled the two pilots of hers that didn’t make it to the network.

“It was actually a weird thing because I was on three pilots for the Disney Channel,” she recalled on Therapuss podcast. “One was the spinoff of Lizzie McGuire , one was the spinoff of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and the last one was Wizards .

“So by then, all of them didn’t get picked up and I was just kind of at my wits’ end, but not in a bad way. I just kind of thought, ‘OK, well this

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