{"id":68141,"date":"2025-10-09T16:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/68141\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T16:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:29:08","slug":"wizards-of-waverly-place-reboot-kills-off-selena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/68141\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards of Waverly Place reboot kills off Selena\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disney<\/a>\u2019s sequel series, Wizards Beyond Waverly Place<\/a> \u2014\u00a0which follows David Henrie\u2019s Justin Russo, now a father who faces a new challenge when his sister Alex (Selena Gomez<\/a>) introduces him to Billie, a wizard-in-training in need of mentorship \u2014 concluded its second season Wednesday in a dramatic fashion.<\/p>\n

*Warning \u2014 Major Wizards Beyond Waverly Place season two finale spoilers to follow*<\/p>\n

In part two of the season finale \u2014 which features the highly anticipated return of Gomez <\/a>\u2014 it\u2019s shockingly revealed that Billie (Janice LeAnn Brown) is actually Alex\u2019s biological daughter.<\/p>\n

Alex makes the discovery after she regains her memory that she had wiped years ago, along with Justin and Billie\u2019s, in order to protect her daughter from the dark wizard Lord Morsus (Tobias Jelinek), who is also revealed to be Billie\u2019s paternal grandfather. <\/p>\n

Morsus, meanwhile, has used Billie and her powers to open a dangerous portal between the mortal world and an evil dimension.<\/p>\n

Realizing the only way to seal the rift is from the other side, Billie offers to sacrifice herself. However, Alex tearfully shuts her down and instead insists on doing it herself, promising Billie, \u201cWe\u2019ll find each other again.\u201d <\/p>\n

Alex then steps up to the portal, leaping onto Morsus\u2019s back as they\u2019re whisked away to the other side \u2014 leaving Justin to comfort Billie and his children, reassuring them that they\u2019ll find Alex someday.<\/p>\n

The climactic cliffhanger has left fans devastated, with many expressing their heartbreak on X. The show \u201chas no right being this good at dramatic storylines because what do you mean alex russo sacrificed herself for her daughter,\u201d one wrote. <\/p>\n

Janice LeAnn Brown as Billie in ‘Wizards Beyond Waverly Place’ (Disney\/Eric McCandless)<\/p>\n

\u201cMy whole childhood is ruined,\u201d a second cried, while a third declared: \u201cAlex russo will forever remain the most iconic Disney character ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking in a recent interview with TVLine<\/a>, Henrie admitted that he \u201cknew that everyone was going to freak out\u201d about the finale.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor seven months, I was just waiting for the moment [the cast] got to read the script with the ending,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen we finally read it, everyone cried at the table read with all the executives and all the different folks that work on the show. Everyone was just deeply moved and touched. It was exactly what I had hoped for.\u201d<\/p>\n

He later addressed viewer concern, cryptically teasing on X: \u201cJust so you know, Alex Russo is tougher than you think \u2014 and there\u2019s a lot more to come. You\u2019re asking all the right questions. Stay tuned, #WizardsBeyond has got some magical surprises up our sleeves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gomez, 33, led the original four-season Disney Channel sitcom alongside Henrie, 36, from 2007 to 2012. The actor\u2019s latest reprisal of Alex, a role that helped launch her career, marks only her third appearance on the reboot, much to fan dismay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wizards Beyond Waverly Place is out now on Disney+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney\u2019s sequel series, Wizards Beyond Waverly Place \u2014\u00a0which follows David Henrie\u2019s Justin Russo, now a father who faces…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[251,430,784,156,788,782,111,43,785,783,786,139,69,787,255],"class_list":["post-68141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-breaking-news","tag-celebrities","tag-daily-news","tag-entertainment","tag-global-news","tag-inkl","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-news-app","tag-news-headlines","tag-news-today","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-today-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68141","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=68141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}