With her child star days behind her, Bella Throne has found perspective on her behind-the-scenes friendship with Zendaya.

The Disney Channel alum recently recalled being pitted against each other while making their 2010-’13 series Shake It Up, during which they “escaped to another set” to work out their differences.

“It got pretty bad,” she recalled on the Call Her Daddy podcast. “And then you have your your families and you have the rest of the set and everything, and I think it got to a point where when we were on our Good Luck Charlie crossover, we escaped to another set in the middle of a live taping, which is really ballsy, badass and rebellious. Very rebellious.”

Thorne continued, “‘Escaped’ is a funny word. We didn’t escape, but we snuck out. We knew that we had three scenes until we were up again. And we were just like, ‘Let’s just go talk.’ And we did.”

Noting they “stayed a little too long,” Thorne said she and Zendaya “got into it, hashed it out, and it was so beautiful. It was my first experience woman to woman, girl to girl, where you actually can speak and you can both be heard about the different things you’ve been experiencing and what people are saying and how they’re trying to do this to you, and and you can walk out of there seeing each other.”

The 2011 Good Luck Charlie episode “Charlie Shakes It Up” features the cast visiting the Windy City and running into CeCe (Thorne) and Rocky (Zendaya) on the set of Shake It Up, Chicago.

A federal judge tossed out an antitrust challenge to the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger that was brought by a group of consumers.

U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín wrote that the plaintiffs in the case had failed to establish standing, but she will allow them to file a revised complaint.

“Plaintiffs’ standing theory amounts to little more than the assertion that they are consumers who watch television and go to the movies, and therefore a merger between entertainment companies would injure them,” the judge wrote.

She also wrote that the plaintiffs alleged “only one concrete and particularized injury – a single, historical price
increase on Paramount+.” But the injury was “not suffered in the same way by all five of the plaintiffs,” the judge wrote.

Martínez-Olguín also is presiding over the separate antitrust cases challenging the merger brought by state attorneys general and the Writers Guild of America. On Tuesday, she set a trial date for March.

The consumer lawsuit was filed in April, before the state AG lawsuit. The plaintiffs included five pay-TV and streaming services subscribers who claimed, among other things, that the acquisition would increase prices and diminish the diversity of viewpoints. The lawsuit also seeks the divestiture of Skydance’s acquisition of Paramount Global last year.

Paramount’s legal team argued that the plaintiffs — Pamela Faust, Len Marazzo, Lisa McCarthy, Deborah Rubinsohn and Gary Talewsky — did not have standing, and that they failed to state a plausible claim of competitive harm from the merger.

The judge held a hearing in the case earlier this month, but denied the plaintiffs motion for a preliminary injunction.