Selena Gomez Mortified Over ‘Barney’ Reference at SAG Awards

Jodie Foster, Harrison Ford, and Timothée Chalamet also had their less than glamorous starts highlighted at the awards.

Selena Gomez looked more than a little embarrassed to be reminded of her early days on Barney & Friends during Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Gomez got her start as an actress at 10 years old on “Barney & Friends,” on which she appeared from 2002 to 2004. During host Kristen Bell’s opening number, Gomez was reminded of her stint on the children’s show on the big screen in the room full of her elite peers on Sunday.

“Speaking of disregulated emotions, this is a night to honor the actor’s journey, which is long and can be arduous and it leads you to the question: Do you wanna be an actor?” Bell said, singing that last bit to the tune of Frozen’s “Do You Wanna Build a Snowman?”

“Let’s get your foot inside the door, can you scream a lot on Halloween,” Bell continued singing, referencing Jamie Lee Curtis as she appeared in a clip at the start of a montage that showed Curtis screaming in 1978’s Halloween. Poking fun at Gomez, Bell then sang about hugging a “purple dinosaur” as a clip of her with Barney played, and the Emilia Pérez star looked on seemingly mortified from her seat.

Gomez’s expression was displayed at the bottom of the screen, showing that she only responded with a smirk as the clip rolled—shaking her head “no” until the mega-screen montage finally moved on to other actors in the room Bell would sing about.

Timothée Chalamet appeared in the montage as a very young hospital patient, as did Jodie Foster in an early role as a toddler—Harrison Ford’s first role as an uncredited bellhop pager in Dead Heat on a Merry Go Round seemed to amuse the actor quite a bit.

Bell sang along to clips from the early careers of at least two dozen established the actors in the room, including Jason Segel, Colman Domingo, and Andrew Scott.