Ashley Tisdale has been acting since she was a young child, and she’s appeared in dozens of film and television projects since her 1997 onscreen debut as a guest star in episodes of . But the 36-year-old actor is likely most known today for her roles as Maddie Fitzpatrick in Disney Channel’s  and Sharpay Evans in the iconic franchise. While she remains close with many of her HSM castmates to this day, don’t expect Tisdale to reprise “Bop to the Top” anytime soon — she’s not interested.

During a new interview with, the actor was asked whether or not she’d ever step back into the role of musical theater queen bee Sharpay again if given the chance. “No… I just feel like I wouldn’t be able to really do that again and give it justice,” she told host Deidre Behar in a video published on Aug. 10. “You know what I’m saying? I think at that moment in time, I was very unaware of myself and my surroundings, and I feel like that’s a big part of Sharpay. She is just not really aware, and so as I grew up and became more aware, I think that it’s just something that it wouldn’t be the same.”

But don’t take her answer as a diss towards the billion-dollar movies that made Tisdale a household name. “It’s so good, and it’s like, for me, I would hate to ruin something that is perfect for that moment,” she said. “I don’t think I could go back to it.”

Now the real question is: where’s Sharpay’s dog, Boi, today?

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Home Alone House Owners Reveal Truth Behind An Iconic Scene

The Christmas classic isn’t so unrealistic after all.by 

Oct. 24, 2024

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The plot of Home Alone might seem farfetched, but in the Christmastime staple is more realistic than fans might assume.

In a from the forthcoming documentary The House From…, the Abendshien family, who owned the real Home Alone house, reflect on living at the iconic property during the filming of the movie. Lauren Abendshien, who grew up  in the Chicago suburb of Winnetka, revealed in the doc that she and her parents noticed a tree was missing from their yard after watching Home Alone for the first time.

“There’s a scene where Kevin goes out into the backyard to cut himself a Christmas tree, so he cuts one in half,” said Lauren. “My parents are sitting there and thinking, ‘Wow, they did a really good job filming that scene. It looks very realistic.’ Well, it wasn’t a fake tree.”

She explained, “They got home and looked in the backyard and saw, ‘Oh, they cut our actual tree in half.’ So the tree you see in the movie that Kevin cuts down was our actual tree.”

While Culkin’s Christmas tree scene turned out to be real, other moments in the 1990 festive favorite were most certainly not.

neighbors Herb and Joanie White, who lived opposite the Home Alone house, recalled the filming of one scene in which arrives home during what appears to be a snow flurry.

“Those are potato flakes,” Herb revealed. “Off to the side, where you don’t see them, there are two big fans and two big burly guys with bags of potato flakes shaking them into the fan.” While the fake snow flakes “looked fine for the movie,” Herb said they “started getting pretty odorous after a while.”

Despite disruptions on their street, which continue to this day with Home Alone fans stopping by the original house, the Abendshien family said being part of the production was a “fun, positive experience.”

Legacy Of Home Alone

Released in November 1990, the Chris Columbus-directed film tells the story of 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Culkin), who is accidentally left behind when his family jets off to France for the holidays. While home alone, the seemingly empty is targeted by  however, Kevin wreaks havoc on their devious plans.

Home Alone became a global box office hit, grossing $476.7 million worldwide. The festive flick also spawned five sequels, the most recent of which, Home Sweet Home Alone, was released in 2021.

“Home Alone was, is, and always will be a beloved global sensation,” O’Hara said during in December 2023. She cited her younger co-star and his “perfect performance” as the reason why, saying, “It really was as if we had ambushed the home of this real little boy named Kevin to make a movie and he just went along with it for the fun of it.”