‘Jessie’ alum Josie Totah answers dating speculations after Karan Brar clip

Former Disney Channel star Josie Totah has turned down dating speculations after dropping a steamy snap with costar Karan Brar.

Totah, 23, who came out as “trans” in 2018, made headlines with a PDA-filled TikTok video where her former Jessie costar Brar, 25, came from behind and wrapped his arms around Totah’s waist before she reached him with a smooch.

Totah then dropped another video shortly after the PDA-packed snap went viral, clarifying over and over that “it was a joke.”

“We are two platonic best friends who danced a little too close to the sun,” Totah wrote in the caption of the second video.

Brar also insisted on the stunt being a mere joke, writing in a post on his Instagram Stories, “It was a joke [crying emoji]” as he said the friends “didn’t mean to gaslight” the internet.

Fans could not quite wrap their heads around the contradicting gestures, with one saying in the comments, “That did not look like a joke,” and another replied, “Well you can’t be joking like that cause now I’m disappointed.”

Totah joined Jessie in 2013 as Stuart Wooten, who had a crush on Skai Jackson’s character, Zuri.

Brar played Ravi, one of Zuri’s three siblings, who were taken care of by babysitter Jessie (starring Debby Ryan) in the Debby Ryan-led series that spanned from 2011 to 2015.