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11-24-2021, 08:08 PM
Adrienne Bailon-Houghton Returns as Alana for "Raven's Home" Season 5, Calls the Reunion a "Dream Come True"
by Andy Swift
November 24, 2021
Raven Baxter may see the future, but when "Raven’s Home" returns for its fifth season on Disney Channel, it’s the psychic’s past that comes back to haunt her.
Adrienne Bailon-Houghton is set to recur in Season 5, reprising the role of Raven’s high school bully Alana from "That’s So Raven", TVLine has learned exclusively. What’s more, Alana is now the principal of Bayside, where Booker enrolls after he and Raven move back to San Francisco to care for her father.
“I’ve always been hopeful about [playing Alana again], so to be able to make it happen was a dream come true,” Houghton tells TVLine.
“I always love working with [Raven-Symoné]. We did the first Cheetah Girls movie when I was 19, and now I’m 38, so we’ve stayed friends for almost 20 years. We laugh at the fact that we were playing the high school students… and now we’re playing the parents. It’s so bizarre!”
As for Alana being the principal, Houghton admits she was “fully shocked” by her character’s new gig. “How genius of the writers of this show to create that dynamic where the school bully becomes the principal,” she says. “It’s funny and ironic, and I’m loving being the authority figure.”
Sure, it’s possible that Alana will eventually have a “pivotal moment” that inspires her to change her ways, but Houghton says she’s “having too much fun torturing Raven Baxter as a grown woman” to let that happen anytime soon.
Raven and Alana’s confrontational (yet playful) dynamic is on full display when the women eventually reunite, which Houghton credits to her and Raven’s decades-long friendship.
“We were able to have fun when Alana was the bully because we were comfortable enough to do all that physical comedy,” she says. “There are things we created and did that we were able to do because we were really friends.”
https://tvline.com/2021/11/24/adrienne-bailon-alana-ravens-home-season-5-photos/
by Andy Swift
November 24, 2021
Raven Baxter may see the future, but when "Raven’s Home" returns for its fifth season on Disney Channel, it’s the psychic’s past that comes back to haunt her.
Adrienne Bailon-Houghton is set to recur in Season 5, reprising the role of Raven’s high school bully Alana from "That’s So Raven", TVLine has learned exclusively. What’s more, Alana is now the principal of Bayside, where Booker enrolls after he and Raven move back to San Francisco to care for her father.
“I’ve always been hopeful about [playing Alana again], so to be able to make it happen was a dream come true,” Houghton tells TVLine.
“I always love working with [Raven-Symoné]. We did the first Cheetah Girls movie when I was 19, and now I’m 38, so we’ve stayed friends for almost 20 years. We laugh at the fact that we were playing the high school students… and now we’re playing the parents. It’s so bizarre!”
As for Alana being the principal, Houghton admits she was “fully shocked” by her character’s new gig. “How genius of the writers of this show to create that dynamic where the school bully becomes the principal,” she says. “It’s funny and ironic, and I’m loving being the authority figure.”
Sure, it’s possible that Alana will eventually have a “pivotal moment” that inspires her to change her ways, but Houghton says she’s “having too much fun torturing Raven Baxter as a grown woman” to let that happen anytime soon.
Raven and Alana’s confrontational (yet playful) dynamic is on full display when the women eventually reunite, which Houghton credits to her and Raven’s decades-long friendship.
“We were able to have fun when Alana was the bully because we were comfortable enough to do all that physical comedy,” she says. “There are things we created and did that we were able to do because we were really friends.”
https://tvline.com/2021/11/24/adrienne-bailon-alana-ravens-home-season-5-photos/