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,

Before her iconic role as Alex Russo on Disney Channel’s hit show Wizards of Waverly Place, Selena Gomez almost had a very different Disney Channel career. She actually filmed pilots for two potential spinoffs of other popular series.