{"id":1905974,"date":"2023-03-28T11:27:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T15:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wizards-of-waverly-place-showrunner-confirms-obvious-same-sex-relationship-between-alex-and-stevie\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T11:27:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T15:27:59","slug":"wizards-of-waverly-place-showrunner-confirms-obvious-same-sex-relationship-between-alex-and-stevie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wizards-of-waverly-place-showrunner-confirms-obvious-same-sex-relationship-between-alex-and-stevie\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wizards Of Waverly Place\u2019 Showrunner Confirms \u2018Obvious\u2019 Same-Sex Relationship Between Alex And Stevie"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwizards-of-waverly-place-showrunner-confirms-obvious-same-sex-relationship-between-alex-and-stevie%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1905974&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>The creator of the Disney Channel&#8217;s popular show &#8220;Wizards of Waverly Place,&#8221; Peter Murrieta, has confirmed the \u201cobvious\u201d same-sex relationship between characters Alex and Stevie that fans had suspected for years. Murrieta would have liked to have been more overt about the relationship, but suggested that Disney would not allow it at the time. &#8220;We got as close as we could,&#8221; he said on a recent episode of the &#8220;Wizards of Waverly Pod&#8221; podcast. Kiyoko, who played Stevie, has previously discussed the pairing between her character and Selena Gomez\u2019s Alex. The actress shared her feelings during a 2022 interview with Them. Disney has come under scrutiny recently for inserting LGBTQ storylines into children\u2019s programming. <\/p>\n<p>For example, the new version of &#8220;Blue&#8217;s Clues&#8221; featured an LGBT pride parade with \u201cnon-binary\u201d animals and a cartoon drag queen to celebrate Pride Month in 2021. The film &#8220;Lightyear&#8221; underperformed after creators publicized their inclusion of a same-sex kiss as a way to protest Florida\u2019s Parental Rights in Education bill. <\/p>\n<p>Disney has also been criticized for a leaked video call in which an executive producer referenced her \u201cnot-at-all-secret gay agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Disclosure: The Daily Wire has announced plans for kids entertainment content.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWizards of Waverly Place\u201d showrunner Peter Murrieta wishes he could have been more overt about a same-sex relationship between two characters, but suggested that Disney wouldn\u2019t allow it at the time. The fantasy teen sitcom aired on the Disney Channel between 2007 and 2012. It followed Alex Russo (Selena Gomez) and her brothers, who are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1905975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20059,9266,4938,20379,5611,5406,7282,8550,22931,20058],"class_list":["post-1905974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-wizards","tag-alex","tag-confirms","tag-obvious","tag-place","tag-relationship","tag-same-sex","tag-showrunner","tag-stevie","tag-waverly"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1905975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}