Whereas followers had been reintroduced to Sabrina Spellman within the sometimes festive Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, many who had been TV followers within the ’90s affiliate Melissa Joan Hart with the teenage witch. Hart was America’s sweetheart for seven seasons as viewers watched her character develop up from a naïve excessive schooler to a working girl. Nonetheless, at one level, the previous teen star nearly bought booted from the present. Years after the TGIF sitcom ended, the Sabrina the Teenage Witch star revealed why she was almost fired from the hit present.
Hart opened up about why the basic collection nearly got here to a untimely finish whereas chatting on the Hey, Dude… The 90s Known as podcast. In gearing up for the discharge of the teenager basic Drive Me Loopy, MJH had been booked to do the lads’s journal Maxim. Following an thrilling evening on the Playboy Mansion, Hart admitted to being closely intoxicated in the course of the shoot. Her tough evening resulted in an exhausted Hart enduring a 10-hour photoshoot whereas sporting revealing clothes.
A number of months later, issues got here to a head on the Drive Me Loopy New York crimson carpet premiere. By this time, Hart was coping with numerous points – she was recent off a breakup together with her longtime boyfriend and upset over not seeing household in her large second. She recalled being whisked away from the premiere to movie a job in Scary Film. She mentioned:
I get within the automotive crying as a result of I’ve to depart my household in New York, and I get a telephone name on a type of carphones, saying ‘Don’t go to the airport. You’ve been fired from Scary Film.’ I’m like ‘Sure, I’m going to remain in New York.’… I am going from being emotional and leaving to going straight to the afterparty at Planet Hollywood. So, when the premiere ends and the celebration begins, I’m like ‘Hey, everybody, I’m right here. I can celebration tonight.’ My lawyer comes as much as me and says ‘Don’t speak to anybody. You’re being fired out of your present since you did Maxim journal.’ So, my mother calls me, ‘What did you? We’re being sued, and also you’re being fired.’
The Clarissa Explains It All star revealed she “hadn’t seen the duvet” but when all the things hit the fan. She recalled being information fodder for per week as morning present hosts debated whether or not she was “allowed to be horny or not on the duvet of {a magazine}.” After all of the uproar, Hart spilled the editorial choice that bought her in hassle with Archie Comics and ABC.
The factor is I’ve by no means seen this performed earlier than or after, however Maxim wrote Sabrina on the duvet, not my title Melissa. They didn’t put my title. They put Sabrina. So, that Archie comedian we bought for one greenback, there was a really large contract drawn up [about] what I used to be and wasn’t allowed to do because the character. Being seen in my underwear wasn’t one thing I used to be speculated to do because the character… If you happen to have a look at the duvet, it says ‘Sabrina, your favourite witch and not using a sew.’
The TV icon talked about her publicist scored the photoshoot as a option to promote the film. Fortunately, Hart didn’t get fired after her lawyer put out an apology letter for her. Nonetheless, the backlash went past the press as her father and brother had been teased and taunted over her horny cowl. All the difficulty led to her by no means doing the same cowl once more as she felt uncomfortable with the photographs just like the women of One Tree Hill.
Fortunately, Melissa Joan Hart seems each season of Sabrina the Teenage Witch at the moment accessible by a Paramount+ subscription. Possibly the forged will lastly watch an episode of the basic teen sitcom. Within the meantime, take a look at our 2023 TV schedule to see what new and returning reveals are premiering.
