Disney Feud? Miley Cyrus Shirt Attack by Kevin Jonas
Jonas Wears Shirt Critical of Brother’s Ex-Girlfriend Miley, Alyson Stoner cuts tension with cooking challenge to Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato
By Matthew B. Zeidman
NEW YORK (Hollywood Today) 8/12/08 – Miley Cyrus and Kevin Jonas made headlines today in what was either tongue-and-cheek fun of baseless media chatter or a serious confirmation of a Disney-star-on-Disney-star feud.
Kevin Jonas, one-third of the Jonas Brothers singing trio, was seen wearing a “Team Demi and Selena” T-shirt in New York Sunday. E! posted a paparazzi photo of the teen heartthrob’s controversial wardrobe choice on its Web site the following morning.
Goodness, grandstanding in Hollywood? This one looked a little different, however.
The message, printed in large, gold lettering on a black background, referred to the unsubstantiated animosity between brother Nick’s ex, “Hannah Montana” star Miley Cyrus (and her best friend, backup dancer Mandy Jiroux), and Nick’s current unconfirmed squeeze, “Wizards of Waverly Place” star Selena Gomez (and her best friend, “Camp Rock” star Demi Lovato).
Meanwhile, Alyson Stoner, also of “Camp Rock,” as well as 2003’s “Cheaper by the Dozen” and its sequel, cut the tension by continuing her unquestionably tongue-in-cheek YouTube banter with Gomez and Lovato.
While the two inseparable brunettes turned down a dance-off challenge suggested in April by Stoner and two friends, joking that the pair’s childhood dancing experience on “Barney & Friends” outclassed the trio’s experience as professional dancers, Stoner issued another challenge later that month for a cook-off in the style of Food Network’s “Iron Chef.” She finally followed up the friendly dare Sunday, with a YouTube video showing off her and her birthday guests’ prowess with the marshmallow and dishing out a pun to her opponents, “You got served.”
Lovato, Stoner and all three Jonas Brothers shared the screen in “Camp Rock,” which premiered on the Disney Channel on June 20 to 8.9 million viewers, beating the 7.7-million-viewer premiere of Disney’s other iconic TV movie, “High School Musical,” but not its sequel, which pulled in a staggering 17.3 million viewers.
