Just like Raven-Symoné, Demi Lovato also has her own “Mount Rushmore” of iconic Disney Channel stars.
“It would definitely be Raven, Hilary [Duff], and I honestly agreed with her answer,” Lovato, 33, said on the Wednesday, March 18, episode of the “Chicks in the Office” podcast. “Hers definitely resonated.”
Symoné, 40, appeared on a recent episode of the “Stepping Into the Shade Room” podcast, where she was asked to pick the most influential Mouse House vets. The That’s So Raven star picked herself, Duff, 38, Shia LaBeouf and Lee Thompson Young.
“I would put in The Famous Jett Jackson,” Symoné said of Young, who died in August 2013 at age 29. “He is no longer with us, but he was the first Black show on Disney. Lee Thompson Young played … Jett Jackson, and I believe he should be on Disney Rushmore. He definitely deserves a spot.”
As for Lovato, she thought the Rushmore-type lineup should also “go back to the Mickey Mouse Club too.”
“[There were] people that were on Disney Channel prior to everyone I just named, you know, there was Britney [Spears] and Christina [Aguilera],” the Camp Rock actress acknowledged of the All-New Mickey Mouse Club variety show that also starred the likes of Justin Timberlake and Keri Russell. “Does that come first? Does that count? But, maybe not.”
Lovato wasn’t sure whether the Mickey Mouse Club cast would be applicable since they “didn’t transform Disney Channel into what it is.”
“I think Raven really did, Hilary really did that and I’m blanking on [who else she included],” the pop star said before the hosts pointed out that Even Stevens star LaBeouf, 39, was also included on Symoné’s lineup.
She replied, “I’m OK on that one, yeah, we can pass.”
Years after LaBeouf led Even Stevens, he had a string of legal troubles and was recently arrested in New Orleans last month after an alleged fight that he blamed on a “small man complex.”
Lovato, who starred on the network’s Sonny With a Chance and Camp Rock franchise, further acknowledged that she, Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus didn’t belong on the same Rushmore lineup.
“They came before us, you know what I mean?” she said. “They paved the way, and I think there could be a second Mount Rushmore for Disney Channel, which would probably be Jonas Brothers, Miley, Selena and hopefully me. Then, I think there’s another one that comes after, which is all the Disney stars that have [followed like Zendaya and Sabrina Carpenter].”
Lovato, however, played coy when asked by the Barstool podcasters which Jonas Brothers singer would get the top spot on the secondary Rushmore. When it was floated that Joe, 36, would get top billing over brothers Nick Jonas and Kevin Jonas, Lovato laughed.
Lovato, who is now married to Jordan Lutes, actually dated Joe on-and-off during their overlapping Disney years. They last reunited on the set of the upcoming Camp Rock 3, which Joe and his brothers appear in while Lovato produced the film.
