Jake T. Austin Hints at 'Wizards of Waverly Place' Spinoff Cameo

The recent one Wizards of Waverly Place reunion was missing Jake T Austinand he is already ready to make up for his absence.

“Wow! Looking forward to getting together with my wizard family,” Austin, 29, wrote via Instagram Story on Saturday, January 27, reposting David DeLuise And David Henry's upload.

On Friday, January 26, Instagram photo DeLuise, 52, and Henrie, 34, were all smiles as they posed with Selena Gomez And Maria Canals-Barrera.

Wizards of Waverly Place originally aired on Disney Channel between 2007 and 2012, after three Russo siblings balanced magical training with normal teenage life in New York City. Henrie, Gomez, 31, and Austin played Justin, Alex and Max Russo, respectively. DeLuise and Canals-Barrera, 57, played parents Jerry and Theresa Russo, respectively, who ran a substation with a magical lair in the freezer.

Earlier this month, news broke that Henrie and Gomez were producing a spin-off – following the next generation of Russian wizards in training – for Disney. The new show, which currently has a pilot order, will also see Henrie and Gomez reprise their roles. It's unknown which other OG show stars will return.

The new show follows a now adult Justin after he gives up his magical powers. While focusing on his family, he meets a young wizard named Billie (Janice LeAnn Brown) who need a mentor. While Justin helps Billie, he returns to the world of magic.

While it's unknown what Alex or Max have been up to, the cast has been speculating for years.

“I think this is a great place to start [potential new] show would be the opposite version of that, so you have to go somewhere in the series. So if you were to start the show where the family is divided and not united,” Henrie previously shared Access in August 2020, assuming that Alex would be “the Meryl Streep of the Wizarding World” and a major fashionista, and that Max would be a sandwich shop mogul.

Most of the Wizards cast remained close, except Gomez. She previously called losing contact with her fellow actors the “biggest mistake” of her life so far.

“I slowly got a little embarrassed,” Gomez recalled during a July 2023 episode of the recap podcast “Wizards of Waverly Pod.” “I felt ashamed of the decisions I made. I didn't want you to see me in the state I was in. Because A: You would have told me the truth, which scares me. And B: I didn't want to let you down.”

In the years since leaving Disney Channel, Gomez publicly struggled with her mental health and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and lupus. She also went through a series of high-profile breakups, including several with exes Justin Bieber. (Gomez is currently dating a music producer Benny Blanco.)