{"id":2319224,"date":"2026-03-09T07:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2319224"},"modified":"2026-03-09T07:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:09:15","slug":"where-the-stars-of-the-luck-of-the-irish-are-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/where-the-stars-of-the-luck-of-the-irish-are-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Stars of The Luck of the Irish Are Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p> Emily Osment and More React to Nick Jonas Calling Disney Channel Games \u2018Love Island\u2019 on \u2018Crack\u2019<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">A pot of gold awaits you at the end of this anniversary.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The Luck of the Irish<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, the classic <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/disney\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Disney<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> Channel Original Movie\u2014a.k.a. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">DCOM\u2014is turning 25 March 9, appropriately just ahead of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">St. Patrick\u2019s Day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The 2001 movie starred frequent DCOM actor <\/span><strong>Ryan<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> <\/span><strong>Merriman<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> as Kyle O\u2019Reilly Johnson, a high school basketball player unaware of his Irish heritage<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u2014or the accompanying magical curse<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">. Kyle must recover his family\u2019s lucky gold from the evil leprechaun Seamus McTiernen (<\/span><strong>Timothy Omundson<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">) before he and his family are all transform into leprechauns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">And while the film has a decidedly Irish <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">slant<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, Merriman couldn\u2019t help but see the similarities between his character and <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1420712\/kenny-ortega-says-zac-efron-sang-in-high-school-musical\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">another famous basketball-playing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> Disney Channel star.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cI\u2019m the OG Troy Bolton,\u201d Merriman <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@enews\/video\/7482897751915646251\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">told E! News<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, calling out <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/zac_efron\"><strong>Zac Efron<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">High School Musical <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">character. \u201cThere, I said it. There are just too many similarities between <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The Luck of the Irish <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">High School Musical<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Osment and More React to Nick Jonas Calling Disney Channel Games \u2018Love Island\u2019 on \u2018Crack\u2019 A pot of gold awaits you at the end of this anniversary.\u00a0 The Luck of the Irish, the classic Disney Channel Original Movie\u2014a.k.a. DCOM\u2014is turning 25 March 9, appropriately just ahead of St. Patrick\u2019s Day.\u00a0 The 2001 movie starred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2319225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2319224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Where-the-Stars-of-The-Luck-of-the-Irish-Are.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2319224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319226,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319224\/revisions\/2319226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2319225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2319224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2319224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2319224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}