diff --git a/public/app/features/templating/template_srv.ts b/public/app/features/templating/template_srv.ts
index a2454b56a35..d7d3ad49de3 100644
--- a/public/app/features/templating/template_srv.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/templating/template_srv.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import {
   TypedVariableModel,
 } from '@grafana/data';
 import { getDataSourceSrv, setTemplateSrv, TemplateSrv as BaseTemplateSrv } from '@grafana/runtime';
-import { SceneObjectBase, sceneGraph, FormatRegistryID, formatRegistry, CustomFormatterFn } from '@grafana/scenes';
+import { sceneGraph, FormatRegistryID, formatRegistry, CustomFormatterFn } from '@grafana/scenes';
 
 import { variableAdapters } from '../variables/adapters';
 import { ALL_VARIABLE_TEXT, ALL_VARIABLE_VALUE } from '../variables/constants';
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ export class TemplateSrv implements BaseTemplateSrv {
   }
 
   replace(target?: string, scopedVars?: ScopedVars, format?: string | Function): string {
-    if (scopedVars && scopedVars.__sceneObject && scopedVars.__sceneObject.value instanceof SceneObjectBase) {
+    if (scopedVars && scopedVars.__sceneObject) {
       return sceneGraph.interpolate(
         scopedVars.__sceneObject.value,
         target,