17 Disney Channel stars who dated each other: High School Musical’s Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens were an item, but are Olivia Rodrigo’s break-up songs really about Joshua Bassett?
- Before her pop star days, Miley Cyrus starred on Hannah Montana and dated Nick Jonas, while his brother Joe Jonas went out with Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato
- Rodrigo and Bassett have never confirmed relationship rumours, but fans are convinced that Rodrigo’s hit song Drivers License is about him
Here are 17 Disney Channel actors who dated in real life – and two hotly debated “maybes”.
Kimberly J. Brown and Daniel Kountz
Kimberly J. Brown and Daniel Kountz became friends on the set of Halloweentown in 2001, then reconnected over a decade later and began dating.
Brown, who played Marnie in the first three films, revealed in a video posted to TikTok in June 2021 that she and Kountz – her rival, Kal, from Halloweentown II – “unexpectedly fell in love” after reconnecting to make YouTube video sketches in 2016. The couple is still together.
“It’s funny how life surprises you sometimes, isn’t it?” she said.
Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens
Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens dated throughout filming the High School Musical films.
Hudgens told People magazine in 2019 that the two began dating at the “very beginning” of filming High School Musical in 2005 and broke up in 2010.