Wizards of Waverly Place Alum Dan Benson Hits Again at David Henrie After Obvious Shade

On Wednesday, actor-turned-OnlyFans star Dan Benson took to Instagram to talk out after his former Wizards of Waverly Place costar, David Henrie, seemingly blocked him on X, previously Twitter.

Benson — who performed Zeke Beakerman, the on-screen BFF to Henrie’s Justin Russo, on the Disney Channel collection — shared a video of himself jokingly pretend crying in entrance of a screenshot that confirmed Henrie blocked him on X.

“We pretended to be greatest mates for years. How may you do that to me??” Benson captioned his submit.

Benson’s submit got here after he hit again at Henrie on X within the wake of an interview through which his former onscreen BFF appeared to throw shade at him and his work on OnlyFans.

In a latest interview with BuzzFeed, through which he was selling the Wizards of Waverly Place sequel collection, Wizards Past Waverly Place, alongside his costars, Henrie, 35, and his castmates had been requested to call a star of the unique collection they want to see return for the brand new present.

The group had to decide on between Benson, Hayley Kiyoto, Bridgit Mendler, Skyler Samuels, Gregg Sulkin, and Josh Sussman.

After the forged was initially quiet, Henrie then chimed in, smiling as he seemingly checked out a producer off digital camera.

“I am unable to consider you place one in every of these folks one right here,” Henrie mentioned, as his costars appeared to understand who he was referring to. “Millennials perceive that.”

He then named all the characters, pausing for emphasis when he learn “Zeke Beckerman,” and once more trying off-camera as his forged members laughed.

A social media consumer posted a clip of the second on X, calling out Henrie for his obvious shade of Benson. “David Henrie shaded Dan benson ( Zeke ) due to his new profession path 😭😭,” the individual wrote within the submit, which went viral.

Benson caught wind of the submit and slammed Henrie within the replies.

“David Henrie can suck my d–k. I am going to pay him greater than they paid me for Wizards I promise you that,” he wrote.

Benson — who appeared in 32 episodes of Wizards of Waverly Place from 2007 to 2012 — has beforehand gotten candid about his resolution to turn out to be an grownup leisure performer.

In 2023, he defined in a TikTok video that he “by accident” grew to become an OnlyFans mannequin after nude images and movies he despatched had been allegedly leaked on-line.

“Rapidly I realized that my nude images and movies had been everywhere in the internet,” Benson mentioned on the time, calling it a “fairly traumatic expertise” for him. Although he initially tried to rid the Web of his photos, “that was a fairly troublesome process” — and the photographs nearly price him his job at one level after he’d “type of retired from appearing.”

“It had a really huge adverse affect on my life,” mentioned Benson.

“Ultimately, I made a decision to cease combating towards it and as an alternative go the opposite path and fully lean into it and construct out a web page and as an alternative of letting folks promote my privateness, my — you recognize what I imply,” he went on.

“I made a decision to say, ‘Screw you, I am gonna promote it myself,'” defined the previous actor. “So I began that journey final yr. I have been having an incredible quantity of enjoyable. I’ve met a whole lot of nice folks within the grownup leisure business.”

Whereas he “by accident grew to become an grownup leisure performer” by simply rolling “with the punches,” Benson concluded that, on the finish of the day, “it is modified my life for the higher.”

Throughout an interview with TMZ earlier this yr, Benson expressed his disappointment over allegedly not being requested to seem within the Wizards of Waverly Place reboot, however he mentioned he wasn’t shocked, given his profession.

“I believe that it is tremendous thrilling that the followers get to type of relive their childhood once more and their previous characters they used to like watching are coming again,” he advised the outlet. “I cherished the premise, like, the brand new thought that they are doing for the present.”

“The opposite aspect of me may be very unhappy as a result of I do know for a proven fact that I’ll positively not be part of it,” he continued with fun. “That is all on me. I completely get it. I made selections that made it … So, it is like I put the possibility of bringing again the character I performed away after I determined to go alongside this path of being an grownup content material creator and I get it.”

“So I am very conflicted, I am like tremendous completely satisfied and likewise like, dang it. It is a mixture of feelings for me proper now,” Benson mentioned, earlier than including, “I believe that I put them in a scenario the place they do not have a selection. It is loopy to be an grownup content material creator and it is crazier to do it so publicly and to be a former youngster actor from a Disney Channel present.”