She’s no princess phony

Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato are BFFs in real life – but in “Princess Protection Program,” they don’t start out that way.

In the Disney Channel movie airing Friday, Gomez plays a tomboy whose family takes in Lovato’s princess after a dictator invades her country.

Gomez, who turns 17 this summer along with Lovato, says they bicker at first but eventually “realize that they complement each other.”

While filming in Puerto Rico, Gomez says Disney tried to separate the duo at night by putting them in different buildings.

“They knew we would never get any work done because we’d spend the night and we’d stay up late and talk,” she explains. “That didn’t work – I ended up living in her room half the time.”

Gomez, who has been romantically linked to teen heartthrobs Nick Jonas and Taylor Lautner, says she is proudly single and not looking for a boyfriend.

She’s got enough on her plate: She will soon film the third season of her Disney series “Wizards of Waverly Place,” and her debut pop-rock album is scheduled to be released in September.

Asked what she looks for in guy, she says: “Shia LaBeouf can call me – just kidding. … I like for someone to be honest, nice, sweet and someone that my parents like.”

What’s Gomez’s guiltiest pleasure?

“I like a lot of ‘Hannah Montana’ songs,” she admits. “That’s kind of a guilty pleasure because it doesn’t match at all in my library of iTunes.”

The birthday bunch

Singer-actor Kris Kristofferson is 73. Journalist Brit Hume is 66. Singer Todd Rundgren is 61. Actress Meryl Streep is 60. Singer Cyndi Lauper is 56. Actress Tracy Pollan is 49. Actress Amy Brenneman is 45. Actress Mary Lynn Rajskub is 38. Talk show host Carson Daly is 36. Actor Donald Faison is 35. TV personality Jai Rodriguez (“Queer Eye For The Straight Guy”) is 30.