'Sabrina The Teenage Witch' Was Almost Played By These 2 Other Actresses Before Melissa Joan Hart Was Cast

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Melissa Joan Hart, who recalled the fateful day in 1999 when she broke up with her boyfriend, got canned from and — following a photo shoot — and got sued and fired from her iconic show, .The 47-year-old actress recalled the ordeal while on the podcast, after its hosts — 's Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle and Rider Strong — brought up a Sept. 29, 1999, photo of her and Britney Spears at the New York premiere of their romcom, .After the trio referenced the photo, Hart shared that she wasn't her usual smiley self that day. And, if anyone needed evidence, Hart said to take a closer look at the photo (shown below).«If you look at my eyes, I'd been crying all evening,» she said.She said she was «breaking up with a boy that night because I decided I no longer wanted a relationship with him.» Making matters worse, Hart had been up since 4 a.m.

Ethan Shanfeld Melissa Joan Hart revealed that she was almost fired from “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” because of a racy photo shoot with Maxim magazine in 1999, in which Hart posed in her underwear. As a guest on “Pod Meets World,” a “Boy Meets World” rewatch podcast, Hart said she found out she was “being sued and fired” from “Sabrina” while at a Hollywood party during the “worst day of my life.” “While I’m at the party, my lawyer shows up and goes, ‘You did a photo shoot for Maxim magazine?'” Hart said (via EW).

for Maxim magazine. But apparently the big wigs didn’t get the memo, because she says she was almost fired from the show because of it.As Hart told the story on the Pod Meets World podcast with Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle, and Rider Strong, , the hullabaloo was over the cover story’s tagline, which read, “Sabrina, your favorite witch without a stitch!”Hart says she was at a when she was approached by her lawyer, who asked if she’d recently done a shoot with the magazine.

Melissa Joan Hart almost lost her “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” role after posing for a men’s magazine shoot.

Sabrina The Teenage Witch after posing for an underwear photo shoot.The actor, who starred in the sitcom throughout its seven-season run between 1996 and 2003, appeared on the cover of men’s magazine Maxim in October 1999. The cover featured the headline: “Sabrina your favourite witch without a stitch.”While the shoot was to promote romantic comedy Drive Me Crazy, Hart was accused of breaching her contract, which stated that she “would never play the character naked”, due to the cover line.Speaking about the incident on the Pod Meets World podcast, Hart recalled how she was approached by her lawyer during an after-party following the film’s premiere in New York.A post shared by Pod Meets World (@podmeetsworldshow)“While I’m at the party, my lawyer shows up and goes, ‘You did a photo shoot for Maxim magazine?’ I’m like, ‘Yes, I did.’ They’re like, ‘Well, you’re being sued and fired from your show, so don’t talk to the press, don’t do anything.’”She added: “So I get a phone call on my cell phone from my mother, my producer, who was like, ‘What did you do?’ And I was like, ‘I don’t know, whatever my publicist told me to do at the photo shoot.

Melissa Joan Hart has been in show business since she was a young girl breaking out in the Nickelodeon sitcom Clarissa Explains It All. Hart would go on to star in the ABC sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch, part of the family-friendly primetime programming block known as TGIF.

Melissa Joan Hart is opening up about her Sabrina The Teenage Witch days and recalled the moment when she was almost fired from the role.

show, based on the Archie Comics character of the same name, she was aching for more mature gigs as the ABC series progressed. However, the now-47-year-old’s magical, squeaky-clean image was tarnished when she posed half-naked for the cover of Maxim magazine in 1999 — and she was accused of breaching her TV contract because of it.On top of that, she was nearly fired, too.She claimed she found out she was being sued by the network at the premiere of her 1999 rom-com “Drive Me Crazy” — calling it the “worst day” of her life on a recent episode of the “Boy Meets World” rewatch podcast “Pod Meets World.”She also revealed to hosts Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong and Will Friedle that, as a result of her sexy cover shoot, she was even almost booted from her role in the horror parody film “Scary Movie” — something that she allegedly also found out on the red carpet.The Long Island native, who appeared as Sabrina in a 1997 episode of “Boy Meets World,” said that she was waiting for a post-premiere car ride when she got the news.“I get a call in the limo,” she said.

Harvey Pekar maintained, “Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.” The potential of that sacred combination and the history of DC Comics began nearly a century ago. In 1934 an enterprising Capricorn (aren’t they all) and pulp writer by the name of Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson started National Allied Publications, the company that would become DC Comics and go on to beget such super hero luminaries as Batman and Superman.