Demi Lovato got the role after Selena Gomez turned it down.
Selena Gomez allegedly turned down “Camp Rock” so Demi Lovato would get the part. Getty Images Disney executives “wouldn’t change a thing” about “Camp Rock” — except who played the leading lady. Selena Gomez’s on-screen dad claims the former Disney Channel star turned down the role that eventually made Demi Lovato a household name. David DeLuise, who played Gomez’s father in “Wizards of Waverly Place,” said the character of Mitchie Torres in “Camp Rock” was originally offered to the “My Mind and Me” documentary star. “I’ve never really said this story but they offered Camp Rock to Selena … and she knew that if she passed on it, Demi would get the part,” the actor, 50, revealed in a resurfaced clip from his 2020 interview on the “Wildchat Sports” podcast. “So, she passed on it, which was very nice to do,” he continued, noting that the former child stars were close friends at the time. “And they were friends. They were on the show Barney together.” Enlarge Image David DeLuise revealed