Selena Gomez Returns as Cheeky Alex Russo forWizards Beyond Waverly PlaceSeason 1 Finale: Watch!

Mar. 15, 2025

Selena Gomezis back for more trouble as Alex Russo.

In a clip from the upcoming season finale ofWizards Beyond Waverly Place, Alex makes a surprise visit to Justin (David Henrie) and his wife Giada (Mimi Gianopulos) to check on Billie (Janice LeAnn Brown), theyoung wizard she dropped off into his care at the start of the show.

“That is a relief,” Alex says. “Not that I, you know, was worried. Why would I be? Cause this is a very normal conversation we’re having.”

When Justin takes Giada into the kitchen, leaving Alex alone in the living room, she makes contact with Minister McFigglehorn (Kirsten Vangsness) and tells her that Billie is “safe” at Justin’s house.

Alex then says she’s going to handle things “on my own” as she’s “already put Justin and his family in too much danger” taking care of Billie to begin with.

Selena Gomez in ‘Wizards Beyond Waverly Place’.Disney Channel/YouTube

Disney Channel/YouTube

According to the logline, Billie and Justin’s son Roman (Alkaio Thiele) are missing in the season 1 finale, which premieres Friday, Feb. 28, leaving Justin and Alex to “work together to rescue them from an evil villain’s clutches.”

Gomez, 32, appeared in the revival series' premiere episode — to drop Billie off into Justin’s care — but hasn’t returned since.She teased that she’d be back, though, “sooner than you think"in an Instagram Story post celebrating the show’s record-breaking premiere viewership on Disney+.

Mimi Gianopulos and David Henrie in ‘Wizards Beyond Waverly Place’.Disney Channel/YouTube

At the show’s premiere in October, Gomez said it’s “the best feeling in the whole world to be able to bring this back for you and to all the people who have never seen it before.”

“This is what gave me everything that I have today, and I’ll never forget that this is where I started,” she said ofWizards of Waverly Place, which aired from 2007 to 2012.

She told PEOPLE that the series “picked up where we left off and it shows a very established Justin and also a very established Alex and you’re still curious about what they’re going through, but it kind of felt like a rhythm we got back into.”

David Henrie and Selena Gomez at the ‘Wizards Beyond Waverly Place’ premiere.John Salangsang/Shutterstock

John Salangsang/Shutterstock

Henrie, 35, agreed, as he told PEOPLE they got back into the rhythm “easily” — and he had a whole new perspective to relate to.

“My character’s a father now.I have childrenand I am in real life too, so it was a very organic maturation process in the show.”

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TheWizards Beyond Waverly Placeseason 1 finale premieres Friday, Feb. 28 on Disney Channel.

source: people.com