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UPDATE: 1/7/26 at 11:50 a.m. ET — Anneliese van der Pol’s feedback about serving as Ashley Tisdale’s waitress have resurfaced on-line two years later.
Whereas Tisdale by no means addressed Van der Pol’s remarks, the Excessive College Musical star went viral in January 2026 for detailing her causes for leaving a “poisonous” mother buddy group.
“I used to be beginning to really feel frozen out of the group, noticing each means that they appeared to exclude me,” Tisdale, who shares two daughters with husband Christopher French, wrote in her article. “I’ve by no means thought of the mothers to be dangerous folks … However I do suppose our group dynamic stopped being wholesome and optimistic — for me, anyway.”
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Anneliese van der Pol labored as a waitress after wrapping her preliminary run as an actress on Disney Channel, main to 1 awkward interplay with fellow community alum Ashley Tisdale.
“I wish to say she was beautiful, however …,” van der Pol, 38, recalled through the Thursday, August 24, episode of her “Massive Title Bitches” podcast earlier than trailing off. “She didn’t do something however she was uncomfortable for me. She was so uncomfortable.”
Van der Pol — who performed Chelsea Daniels on That’s So Raven between 2003 and 2007, and later revived her position on Raven’s Residence in 2017 — labored at “a number of eating places” in New York Metropolis, together with the favored Tavern on the Inexperienced “for a few 12 months.”
“I used to be actually happy with myself. You must do plenty of multitasking, however the disappointment [and] the look, the drop of faces when [people] acknowledged me was actually gut-wrenching,” she recalled to cohost Christy Carlson Romano. “It was virtually like I needed to say, ‘I’m OK. I’m truly actually completely satisfied that I don’t must audition and am doing one thing I do know I’m good at.’ I do know after I clear a desk or convey a meal that I can try this and there gained’t be any errors. I gained’t be judged. Primarily, I form of was judged.”
Throughout one in every of her shifts, van der Pol “bumped into” Tisdale, now 38, and needed to serve her. Romano, 39, was flabbergasted by Van der Pol’s admission and exclaimed that she would have left the “fattest” tip attainable.
“Effectively, you’ll have been like, ‘Oh, my God! Hello!’ She was so uncomfortable,” van der Pol alleged. “Like, I’m high-quality, woman.”
Tisdale, who beforehand starred on Disney Channel’s The Suite Lifetime of Zack and Cody and the Excessive College Musical franchise, has not publicly addressed the alleged encounter. Romano, for her half, stated that she “grew up with Ashley” and gave her the good thing about the doubt.
Anneliese van der Pol in, “That’s So Raven.” Youtube
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“I don’t know her anymore [but] I’m certain that was … these youthful youngsters that got here after us, God love ‘em, however I feel we’re more durable,” Romano, who rose to fame taking part in Ren Stevens on the community’s Even Stevens, speculated. “I feel we’ve been by way of some s—t!”
Like van der Pol, Romano retreated from Hollywood after her Disney days. The previous Kim Doable star went to varsity at Columbia College earlier than discovering success as a YouTuber and podcast host.
Regardless of leaving performing behind, Romano beforehand advised Us Weekly that she would “completely” be down for an Even Stevens reboot.
“I feel it may very well be tremendous nice if we might do it the place I come again after which I’ve two kids and perhaps it’s like a gender swap the place the woman is extra just like the Shia LaBeouf character and the boy is extra of the ‘type-A’ [character],” she advised Us in November 2018. “It’s as much as Disney, I do know there’s plenty of modifications occurring proper now at Disney, so we’ll simply have to attend and see, and perhaps they’ll understand that it may very well be a very good concept. And the followers are so nice.”
