Actress Bonnie Morgan shared some ugly truths on the podast “Pod Meets World.”
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Boy Meets World alum Danielle Fishel got candid about the harrowing experience of being sexualized as a teenager — and how it’s affected her personal relationships over the years.
“I’ve always been able to hold a conversation with an adult. I can look you in the eye. I’ve always been those things,” Fishel, 42, said during a June episode of her “Pod Meets World” podcast. “But in a romantic, male-gaze sense, I should not have been outwardly talked about at 14, 15, 16 years old. And I was, even directly to me.”
The former child star — who portrayed Topanga Lawrence on the ABC sitcom from 1993 to 2000 — revealed that people would often have her “18th birthday on their calendar.” She recalled that one male studio executive in particular “specifically told me he had a certain calendar month in his bedroom” from a photoshoot she had done at age 16.
“Getting adult male attention as a teenage girl, I didn’t think of it as creepy or weird,” she confessed. “I felt like it was validation that I was mature. And I was an adult. And they were seeing me for the way I was not a number on the page. In hindsight, that was very wrong.”
While her cohosts, Rider Strong and Will Friedle — who costarred alongside the Arizona native on BMW as Shawn Hunter and Eric Matthews, respectively — pointed out that Fishel was “very mature” and “advanced” for her age, they agreed that she should “never” have been viewed as an “object of desire” at such a young age.
Fishel — who famously dated Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Lance Bass in the ’90s and early ’00s — explained that being sexualized as a teen made her “bad at boundaries.” She shared that it took her “years” before she was able to
Actress Bonnie Morgan shared some ugly truths on the podast “Pod Meets World.”
Before fans came to know Danielle Fishel as Topanga on “Boy Meets World”, there was Bonnie Morgan.
"Boy Meets World" almost had a different leading lady. During a recent appearance on the "Pod Meets World" podcast, Bonnie Morgan, known for her role as Samara in "The Ring," opened up to hosts Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong and Will Friedle about her experience getting hired to play Topanga Lawrence on the show and how she felt when she was eventually let go. "I had three callbacks," she said.
Danielle Fishel as Topanga on , there was Bonnie Morgan. As viewers know today, Fishel portrayed Topanga Lawrence through all seven seasons of the hit ABC sitcom, but that was not originally the case. Instead, Morgan, a fellow child actress, had landed the role, but was swiftly fired.
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Boy Meets World have revealed that they haven’t spoken to co-star Ben Savage in years, saying he has “ghosted” them.Savage starred as Cory Matthews in the 1990s American sitcom, which began in 1993 and ended in 2000.Speaking to Variety, Savage’s three co-stars – Danielle Fishel (Topanga), Rider Strong (Shawn) and Will Friedle (Eric) said they haven’t spoken to Savage in three years after being “so close” for years after the show ended.“As a blanket statement, Boy Meets World is an overwhelmingly positive experience in all of our lives,” Strong said.Discussing how they launched a podcast about the show and asked Savage if he wanted to take part, Fishel said: “He was very adamant that it was not for him.“He was also very clear, ‘I don’t want it to stop you. If you guys want to do it, go ahead.’ The time between those conversations and the time we actually started the podcast was a significant amount of time.”She added that Savage “kind of disappeared from our lives,” adding of the time she had a baby in 2019: “We were just so, so close, especially during that time.
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Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle and Rider Strong made a startling admission while discussing their former co-star, Ben Savage -- the group hasn't spoken to him in three years. They've tried, but according to the trio, he «ghosted» them.The three actors — who played Topanga, Eric and Shawn, respectively, for all seven seasons on the hit ABC sitcom from 1993 to 2000 — are perplexed about the estrangement, given that there's no logical reason to explain the, for lack of a better word, fallout. They said as much in a lengthy profile, in which they talk about their popular iHeart Radio rewatch podcast, .It wasn't always this way.
Ben Savage really doesn’t speak to his Boy Meets World co-stars at all anymore.
Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle and Rider Strong made a startling admission while discussing their former “Boy Meets World” co-star, Ben Savage — the group hasn’t spoken to him in three years. They’ve tried, but according to the trio, he “ghosted” them.
Boy Meets World alums Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong and Will Friedle are closer than ever — but they can’t say the same for their relationships with former costar Ben Savage.
Will Friedle isn’t the type of person to answer his phone while at a lunch — especially at a work lunch. In fact, he may have better manners than anyone I’ve ever met. But this was an exception. We’d been sitting for about 10 minutes — Friedle, Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong and me — gathered around a corner booth in a Studio City restaurant. “Oh, my gosh, I’m sorry, I have to take this,” he says after pulling his iPhone out of his pocket. He quickly turns it around, showing the group the names that are scrolling across the screen: “Bill & Bonnie Daniels.”
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