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Posted: 2024-04-17T18:49:53Z | Updated: 2024-04-17T18:57:36Z

Former Disney Channel actor Daniel Samonas says his first onscreen kiss with Selena Gomez on Wizards of Waverly Place left her feeling the ick.

While appearing on the Wizards of Waverly Pod podcast earlier this week, Samonas, now 34, revealed that the shows producers left him clueless for how to approach the scene during the shows second season, when he was still a teen.

Nobody coached me on how to do a Disney kiss, he said.

Co-host Jennifer Stone, who played Gomezs best friend Harper, interjected to explain that a Disney Kiss involves actors only sharing a closed mouth kiss.

Its this weird rigor mortis thing, she joked.

But that wasnt the only issue.

Samonas went on to suggest that a then-16-year-old Gomez wasnt looking forward to the kiss back then because she was dating fellow Disney star Nick Jonas.

She was dating Nick Jonas at the time, so that was kind of like, Oh, theyre gonna make me kiss another dude, he recalled of her reaction, before clarifying, I cant speak for anybody elses opinions or thoughts.

Stone then chimed in to confirm that Gomez was head over heels for Jonas at the time.

Samonas said he and Gomez didnt rehearse this kiss because it was supposed to be a one and done.

[The producers are] like, One, two, three, kiss! And I go, OK. So, I kissed her like I would kiss somebody I was on a date with sorry Selena, he shared.

Samonas said he was pulled aside by producers following the blunder.