Wizards of Waverly Place alum says he ‘tripped and fell into adult entertainment’

Should you’ve ever requested what the forged of Wizards of Waverly Place is as much as today, you are in for some attention-grabbing solutions.

Selena Gomez? She grew to become an acclaimed singer, actress, and cooking present star. Jennifer Stone, who performed Harper? She grew to become a nurse and labored by means of the coronavirus pandemic.

What about Dan Benson, who performed Zeke? The previous Disney Channel youngster star is now opening up about how he “tripped and fell into grownup leisure.”

Benson, now 35, shared a video on TikTok explaining his profession transition. “One of many questions I get requested on a regular basis is, ‘What? Huh? What do you imply? No. How?'” he stated within the clip. “So anyway, I believed I might take only a minute to elucidate how I sort of tripped and fell into grownup leisure.”

Dan Benson/Instagram ; Bruce Birmelin/ Disney Channel through Getty Dan Benson explains his soar from Disney’s ‘Wizards of Waverly Place’ to grownup leisure.

His story begins on Wizards of Waverly Place, which first aired in 2007 when Benson was 20 years previous. The actor appeared on the Disney Channel unique till he was 25.

“I’d get messages from folks the entire time, a few of these being ladies that I discovered extremely engaging. It seems, messaging these ladies, who turned out to not be who they stated they have been, turned out to be not the very best thought,” Benson stated.

Benson admitted to sending nude photographs and movies to those ladies, who then posted these nudes onto web sites. “That was a reasonably traumatic expertise, and for years I went about attempting to eliminate them, get them off the web, ‘trigger clearly I didn’t need them on the market,” he continued. “However, as you’ll be able to think about, that was a reasonably tough activity.”

“It had a really huge, detrimental impression on my life,” stated Benson, whose final credited position was within the 2018 comedy/thriller Killing Diaz. “Ultimately, I made a decision to cease combating in opposition to it and as an alternative go the opposite path and utterly lean into it and construct out a web page. And as an alternative of letting these folks promote my privateness, my… you already know what I imply, I made a decision to say, ‘Alright, screw you. I am gonna promote it myself.'”

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Benson talked about that he began this enterprise in 2022 and has been having “an incredible quantity of enjoyable.”

“I’ve met quite a lot of nice folks within the grownup leisure trade, and it is modified my life for the higher,” he stated.

Benson is now energetic on OnlyFans. Why is he sharing all this? He does not actually know. He simply is aware of that he desires to make “genuine” content material. “What are you gonna do? Generally it’s a must to roll with the punches,” he concluded. “I extremely recommend you do.”

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