1. Ashley Tisdale originally auditioned for the role of London Tipton before producers decided she would be a better fit for Maddie Fitzpatrick. Ashley eventually got her chance to play a spoiled brat with a puppy companion in the High School Musical trilogy as Sharpay Evans.
2. Jaden Smith made his Disney Channel debut as one of Zack and Cody’s BFFs Travis.
3. Zack and Cody’s love interests twins Janice and Jessica were discovered at a live taping of the show! Actresses Milly and Becky Russo who played the blonde twins, revealed to KidzWorld the amazing way they got their big break. “We went to a live taping of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody which is open to the public, we were discovered by chance, by the executive producer of the show,” Milly said. “She heard that we were English and we were twins, and she asked us to audition for the show. So, we took acting lessons for several months and we auditioned to be on one episode, and they liked how we played the characters, so they put us in 7 episodes!”
4. The Suite Life almost got the Hannah Montana and That’s So Raven treatment, and named the twins Dylan and Cole after the actors. Producers eventually settled on Zack and Cody because they thought it sounded better in the title.
5. Singer Chris Brown was a guest star on season 3 episode 20: Doin’ Time in Suite, but the episode was soon pulled off the air after Chris was arrested for assault against then girlfriend Rihanna.
6. Ashley Tisdale is naturally a brunette and only started dying her hair blonde after she was cast as Maddie Fitzpatrick.
7. Ashley Tisdale’s character was named Lena in the original script.
8. Unlike the show, both Dylan and Cole are super serious about their studies. Both brothers gave up acting to attend college, with Dylan studying video game design and Cole double majoring in humanities and archaeology, and graduated from NYU this year!
