‘90s icons Melissa Joan Hart and Will Friedle opened up about their short-lived relationship as teenagers whereas on their respective hit reveals.
“I used to be with you for, like, your 14th birthday or fifteenth,” Friedle, 47, shared throughout a current episode with Hart, additionally 47, on his “Pod Meets World” podcast alongside cohosts Danielle Fishel and Rider Sturdy. “Keep in mind we went to some place the place it [had] these massive tanks you may drive or shoot the tennis balls at? We went out for that, and we have been, like, making googly eyes at one another. And by the tip of the night time, we have been ‘relationship.’”
Hart — who received her begin on Clarissa Explains It All in 1991 earlier than starring on Sabrina the Teenage Witch — added that the previous couple referred to as one another “just a few occasions on landline.” The Boy Meets World alum joked, “It was a whirlwind romance.”
The pair each moved on from their transient romance with totally different companions.
Hart tied the knot with Mark Wilkerson in July 2003 and welcomed sons Mason, Braden and Tucker in 2006, 2008 and 2012, respectively. Friedle, for his half, married spouse Susan Martens in September 2016.
Hart and Friedle revealed in the identical episode that they’re now engaged on a brand new movie collectively.
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“Basically … Melissa and I did a film collectively again within the ‘90s [that was never finished] for a bunch of humorous causes,” Friedle defined. Hart shared she was “tremendous excited” to star within the new venture. “I used to be like, ‘We’ve to do that! I’ve to be on this with you,’” she gushed.
The actress additionally admitted afterward within the podcast that she was almost “sued and fired” from her starring function as Sabrina Spellman in Sabrina the Teenage Witch resulting from a racy picture shoot she did for Maxim journal.
Whereas at an after celebration for the premiere of 1999’s Drive Me Loopy with Britney Spears, Hart’s lawyer confirmed up and defined that she was being let go from the present.
“So I get a telephone name on my cellphone from my mom, my producer, who was like, ‘What did you do?’” Hart continued. “And I used to be like, ‘I don’t know, no matter my publicist informed me to do on the picture shoot. I did a photograph shoot for Maxim! It’s Maxim, in fact you’re gonna be in your underwear.”
Ben Savage, Rider Sturdy, Danielle Fishel, and Will Friedle. Touchstone Television/Kobal/Shutterstock
Hart defined that the rationale for her near-firing was due to the duvet line, “Sabrina, your favourite witch and not using a sew.” Archie Comics accused her of being in violation of her contract, which acknowledged that she “would by no means play the character bare.” Nevertheless, after writing an apology letter, the accusations have been rapidly dropped.
Sabrina the Teenage Witch ran from 1996 to 2003, and was later rebooted in 2018’s The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina with a brand new forged. (Hart doesn’t make an look within the Netflix collection.)
