{"id":540787,"date":"2026-07-23T19:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/540787\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T19:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:57:08","slug":"selena-gomez-receives-birthday-love-from-wizards-of-waverly-place-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/540787\/","title":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez receives birthday love from &#8216;Wizards of Waverly Place&#8217; parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/674485_7305675_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Selena Gomez turns 34 years old on July 22, 2026\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Selena Gomez turns 34 years old on July 22, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Selena Gomez\u2019s on-screen parents are celebrating her special day. <\/p>\n<p>As the pop icon turned 34 on Wednesday, July 22, her Wizards of Waverly Place parents, Maria Canals-Barrera and David DeLuise wished her a happy birthday on Instagram. <\/p>\n<p>Canals-Barrera \u2014 who played Gomez\u2019s character Alex Russo\u2019s mother, Theresa Russo \u2014 shared a behind-the-scenes clip from the set of the hit Disney Channel show. The clip showed Gomez and Barrera, along with Jake T. Austin \u2014 who played Alex\u2019s brother Max \u2014 dancing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy Birthday to @selenagomez \u2026 who actually taught me how to Dougie. LOL,\u201d the 59-year-old wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, DeLuise \u2014 who played the Russo family patriarch, Jerry Russo \u2014 shared a picture from a more recent reunion with Gomez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy birthday @selenagomez,\u201d he captioned the post. \u201cSending you love! Hope you and @bennyblanco have a blessed &amp; beautiful new year,\u201d he added, referring to Gomez\u2019s husband-of-10-months, Benny Blanco.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old music producer also wished Gomez, sharing a glimpse of the birthday celebrations featuring a home-cooked Italian meal.<\/p>\n<p>Canals-Barrera returned for the second and final season of the Wizards reboot, Wizards Beyond Waverly Place. However, DeLuise did not return.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez turns 34 years old on July 22, 2026 Selena Gomez\u2019s on-screen parents are celebrating her special&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-540787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}