Boy Meets World's Danielle Fishel and Maitland Ward Reignite Feud During Intense Argument
Maitland Ward feels much respected than ever.
The Boy Meets World alum revealed however peers successful Hollywood person treated her since she began moving successful the big movie industry.
"I truly deliberation radical dainty maine with much respect now, honestly, particularly adjacent successful Hollywood close now," Maitland told Fox News Digital successful an interrogation published March 15. "I'm pitching my memoir into a TV format and talking with people. They're truthful respectful, and they're truthful affirmative astir my story, particularly younger radical and antithetic radical that I talk to successful Hollywood and stuff."
"They're conscionable overmuch much receptive to the story," the histrion continued. "And I truly consciousness similar I person a batch of positivity astir it. I'm capable to make my ain brand, my ain content, the mode I privation to make it."
Maitland—who portrayed Rachel McGuire connected Boy Meets World during the show's aboriginal assemblage seasons—went connected to stock that, erstwhile she started doing porn successful 2019, she expected the absorption to beryllium overmuch much antagonistic than it ended up being.
"I didn't get anybody coming retired hating maine for it oregon anything," she explained. "I truly got a batch of positivity overall, which shocked everyone I knew. Everybody thought radical were conscionable going to rip maine apart, and I was going to beryllium judged and raked crossed the coals, but I got truthful overmuch positivity and I deliberation it's due to the fact that I was truthful affirmative astir it, and I was truthful blessed astir it."
Pursuing big amusement has besides fixed the 48-year-old a renewed consciousness of assurance and empowerment, particularly erstwhile it comes to her assemblage image.
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"Just to beryllium bare by myself and beryllium assured successful my assemblage and myself, I would ne'er person been capable to bash that [before]," she shared. "Porn has truly fixed that to me, that empowerment, to beryllium capable to basal successful my ain skin, to beryllium capable to make projects that I privation to make and beryllium arrogant of, to spell against the mold and bash thing that different radical haven't done oregon person been excessively frightened to bash and to person the courageousness and assurance to bash that."
She added that "when you win astatine it, it's similar you consciousness truthful overmuch much confident, due to the fact that you've done thing similar cipher other has done."
In fact, Maitland's experiences making big films person been immoderate of her much supportive and freeing times connected movie sets.
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"On the acceptable of porn sets, I person felt the astir comfy I person ever felt connected a set, particularly successful an intimate situation," she said, "because I truly consciousness there's a batch of conversation, and cipher is shy to person the speech oregon backs distant from it."
As for whether oregon not her former Boy Meets World costars person been supportive of her porn career, Maitland revealed that Trina McGee and Will Friedle were the lone ones who reached retired astir it.
"I didn't truly get immoderate effect from anyone," she said connected the Skinny Confidential Him & Her podcast successful 2022. "Trina did. She supported maine successful the opening and Will has contacted maine since past and says helium supports me, but won't ticker thing that I do."
She aboriginal added Ben Savage—who ran for Congress successful 2023—to that database of supporters.
"Ben was decidedly idiosyncratic who was supportive," Maitland told E! News successful 2024. "I deliberation it was cool. He’s successful authorities and helium stood by the information that I’m successful porn. Some radical shy distant from that and consciousness that consciousness of taboo. It amazed me."
Keep speechmaking for much updates connected the Boy Meets World cast...
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Ben Savage
Savage played Cory Matthews connected Boy Meets World, which anchored ABC's TGIF lineup from 1993 to 2000.
He went connected to postgraduate from Stanford successful 2004 with a grade successful governmental subject and continued to pop up connected TV (Party of Five, Chuck) and the occasional indie film before reuniting with TV sweetheart Danielle Fishel to reprise their roles connected the 2014 Disney Channel spin-off Girl Meets World.
After that amusement ended successful 2017, Savage (whose older brother is The Wonder Years star Fred Savage) appeared connected bid including The Leftovers, Speechless, Criminal Minds (as a young Jason Gideon) and Homeland (as young Saul, making that 2 gigs playing a Mandy Patinkin character arsenic a younger man). While he's yet to look connected his erstwhile co-stars' Pod Meets World podcast, he and Fishel reunited successful 2021 for a rom-com spoof touting cleanable luncheon day spot Panera Bread.
His Instagram indicated for years that he had a wedding-date-caliber girlfriend, but helium kept her individuality beauteous private—until helium popped the question and confirmed successful March 2023 that he'd married longtime love Tessa Angermeier.
Savage unsuccessfully sought a spot connected the West Hollywood City Council successful 2022 and Congress successful 2024.
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Danielle Fishel
Between playing Topanga Lawrence (and past Matthews) on Boy Meets World and Girls Meets World, Fishel—whose archetypal buss was a smooch for the show with Ben Savage—was chiefly herself connected TV, appearing arsenic a analogous connected The Tyra Banks Show and hosting Style Network's The Dish. She besides went backmost to assemblage astatine 27 and earned her grade successful 2012.
She met archetypal hubby Tim Belusko at school, and they were joined for 2 years earlier softly divorcing successful 2016. She wed Drop the Mic host Jensen Karp in 2018, with former co-stars Savage (who congratulated his "favorite TV wife" connected her engagement) and Will Friedle successful attendance.
Fishel and Karp welcomed son Adler in June 2019 and his brother Keaton successful August 2021. The enviably coiffed histrion also, astir fittingly, launched a hairsbreadth attraction line, Be Free by Danielle Fishel, and aft directing respective episodes of Girl Meets World continued connected down the camera, helming episodes of Disney Channel's Sydney to the Max, Raven's Home and Lopez vs. Lopez.
She besides co-hosts Pod Meets World with Friedle and Rider Strong. And connected an August 2024 occurrence of the show, Fishel shared she was diagnosed with DCIS, a signifier of bosom cancer that she noted is "technically signifier zero."
"I'm gonna beryllium fine," she told listeners. "I'm having country to region it. I'm going to beryllium connected immoderate follow-up treatment."
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Rider Strong
After playing Shawn Hunter on Boy Meets World, Strong astir notably starred successful Eli Roth's 2002 sleeper fearfulness hit Cabin Fever and its 2009 sequel, was 1 of the stars of the short-lived Pepper Dennis and voiced Brick Flagg successful the animated series Kim Possible before returning to play Shawn successful 7 episodes of Girl Meets World.
Strong has besides been down the camera, writing, directing and producing immoderate shorts and the 2017 TV movie Micah the A--hole Ghost with brother Shiloh Strong (who was primitively up for the relation of Eric Matthews). His latest directorial effort, "Typhoon—We're In It," was named Best Music Video by the Vortex Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Film Festival successful October 2022.
In 2013, Strong married Alexandra Barreto and their son, Indigo, was calved successful December 2014.
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Will Friedle
Friedle showed up arsenic large member Eric Matthews again on Girl Meets World, but successful the meantime his dependable became ubiquitous successful animated shows including Kim Possible, Teen Titans Go!, DC Super Hero Girls, Disney XD's Guardians of the Galaxy (as Star Lord Peter Quill) and The Legend of Vox Machina.
Years earlier helium attended Fishel and Karp's wedding, helium was champion antheral astatine the 2004 nuptials of Step by Step star Jason Marsden, TGIF cross-over programming astatine its finest. In December 2019, he sported a T-shirt with Topanga's look connected it, a spot of swag courtesy of his aboriginal podcast co-host's hairsbreadth attraction line.
Friedle married Susan Martens in 2016.
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William Daniels
Daniels, a two-time Emmy victor for St. Elsewhere as good arsenic an archetypal prima of the philharmonic 1776 and the dependable of David Hasselhoff's car K.I.T.T. on Knight Rider, secured himself a caller procreation of fans playing Mr. Feeny on Boy Meets World.
After serving arsenic president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1999 until 2001, Daniels continued to marque impermanent appearances connected the likes of Scrubs, Boston Legal and The Closer and had an arc on Grey's Anatomy in 2012. Now 97, Daniels' astir caller carnal acting enactment was reprising the relation of Mr. Feeny connected Girl Meets World, and he keeps up with appearances astatine instrumentality conventions—but helium besides provided the dependable of K.I.T.T. for 2020's Superintelligence.
The autochthonal New Yorker has been married to actress Bonnie Bartlett since 1951 and they're parents of 2 sons.
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Betsy Randle
After Boy Meets World, the Chicago autochthonal notably played Mrs. Winterbourne connected Charmed and returned for a few episodes of Girl Meets World as Cory and Eric's ma Amy Matthews.
In existent beingness she's ma to girl Jessica and lad Aaron with exertion hubby John Randle.
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William Russ
Russ, whose movie enactment includes The Right Stuff and American History X, has remained a engaged quality actor after playing dada Alan Matthews on Boy Meets World, appearing on Boston Legal, The Young and the Restless, 90210, Colony, NCIS: Los Angeles and, astir recently, Bosch, 9-1-1 and Animal Kingdom. He besides returned to Girl Meets World with TV woman Betsy Randle.
Behind the scenes he's dad to a lad and girl with woman Clare Wren.
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Lee Norris
Strong claimed astatine Wizard World Comic Con, per Looper, that Norris' quality Minkus was written retired due to the fact that of the popularity of chap TGIF geek Steve Urkel implicit connected Family Matters, and the Boy Meets World creatives didn't privation to treble down connected comedic nerdom.
Norris, who got his acting commencement arsenic small Chuckie Lee from The Torkelsons, went connected to postgraduate from Wake Forest, play different small-screen geek, Marvin "Mouth" McFadden, connected The CW's long-running drama One Tree Hill, and return as Minkus for a fewer episodes of Girl Meets World. He has since been connected a mates episodes of The Walking Dead, been directed by David Fincher in Zodiac and Gone Girl, and appeared successful the 2020 WWII enactment drama Greyhound with Tom Hanks.
He's been joined to wife Andrea since 2011.
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Matthew Lawrence
Since popping up as Shawn's older half-brother Jack Hunter, the Mrs. Doubtfire star was besides connected the sitcom Brotherly Love with real-life siblings Andrew and Joey Lawrence, and has been successful galore indie films and guested connected shows including Boston Public, CSI: Miami, Workaholics, Melissa and Joey and Hawaii 5-0. He's besides gotten into the cinematic vacation spirit, starring in Mistletoe Mixup and Christmas connected Repeat.
Lawrence married Dancing With the Stars pro Cheryl Burke on May 23, 2019, 13 years aft they archetypal met and dated (followed by a decade-long break) erstwhile she was paired with his member Joey connected the show. They divorced successful 2022 and Lawrence is present dating TLC vocalist Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas.
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Trina McGee
McGee has been successful a fig of made-for-TV movies and short-lived TV bid and besides reprised the relation of Shawn's woman Angela on an occurrence of Girl Meets World—despite the admittedly less-than-ideal circumstances surrounding her exit from Boy Meets World.
On Pod Meets World in 2022, McGee told Fishel, Strong and Friedle that she had been told that they had specifically asked their showrunner to not include her successful the 2000 bid finale, resulting successful Angela's premature departure for Europe portion everyone other was tying up escaped ends.
Friedel insisted "that ne'er happened" and McGee said she regretted immoderate past atrocious humor betwixt her and Fishel, noting they could person been much of a squad during the show's run. Fishel agreed, saying, "We could've helped each other."
Now McGee, who was antecedently joined to Courtland Davis, is backmost successful the fan-convention fold and reunited with the aforementioned trio for Daniels' 96th day connected March 31, 2023. She is besides a singer, artist and parent of kids, Ramia, Langston and Ezra.
In 2024, McGee announced she was expecting her 4th baby astatine property 54. But aboriginal that year, she shared that she suffered a gestation loss.
"I did suffer the baby," McGee said connected a September occurrence of The Tamron Hall Show. "It wasn’t expected; it was person to the extremity of the archetypal trimester. We truly don’t person immoderate existent reasons why."
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Maitland Ward Baxter
After playing assemblage siren Rachel McGuire connected Boy Meets World, Ward starred successful the 2004 comedy White Chicks with Marlon and Shawn Wayans, but went connected to triumph 3 AVNs aft making her adult-film debut successful 2019's Drive.
"I recovered retired that I emotion intersexual performance," she told The Daily Beast successful April 2021, talking astir the unexpected absorption her acting vocation had taken. "It's similar being successful a dance, oregon an ice-skating pair. You're doing this large creator piece, and I conscionable emotion it."
And the determination has continued to enactment for her, arsenic she's also a 2023 AVN Best Actress victor and writer of the memoir Rated X.
Married since 2006 to Terry Baxter, she told In Touch Weekly successful January 2020 of her existent property cause husband, "He is simply a precise bully photographer, too. He has taken pictures of me on the way."
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Lily Nicksay
The archetypal of 2 Morgan Matthews, Nicksay played Cory and Eric's small sister from 1993 to 1995—then scored a relation successful the Michelle Pfeiffer-Robert Redford romantic play Up Close and Personal.
As she grew up, the actress guest-starred connected a fewer TV shows, including The Mentalist, 8 Simple Rules and Judging Amy, and aboriginal returned arsenic Morgan for the 2017 finale of Girl Meets World.
She has been going by Lily Gibson since marrying songwriter Dave Gibson in 2015, and was credited with that sanction connected a 2019 occurrence of NCIS and successful the 2021 film Four Cousins & a Christmas.
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Lindsay Ridgeway
After the "longest nap ever," Morgan re-appeared from a twelvemonth of being successful different country of the location arsenic an older, wholly antithetic girl.
Ridgeway, who took implicit the relation of Morgan successful 1996 until the series' extremity successful 2000, graduated from UC Riverside successful June 2007 and earned a master's grade successful counseling from the University of Redlands successful 2010. Also a singer, she has performed the nationalist anthem at pro sporting events around Los Angeles, and worked portion clip for the Los Angeles Kings hockey squad arsenic a subordinate of the Kings Ice Crew.
She besides came backmost arsenic Morgan for the Girl Meets World finale.
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Linda Cardellini
Lauren got betwixt Cory and Topanga for a mercifully little four-episode arc.
Cardellini graduated from Boy Meets World to the shamefully short-lived Freaks and Geeks, and aft that it was disconnected to the races in Scooby-Doo, ER, Brokeback Mountain, Mad Men (earning an Emmy information for impermanent histrion successful a play series), New Girl and the Netflix drama Bloodline. She besides joined the Marvel Universe arsenic Clint/Hawkeye's wife, was successful the 2019 Best Picture Oscar winner Green Book, and some co-starred and was a shaper connected the Netflix acheronian comedy Dead to Me (earning 2020 Emmy nominations for Best Comedy Series and Best Actress successful a Comedy).
The histrion is ma to girl Lilah-Rose with longtime partner Steven Rodriguez.
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Ethan Suplee
Suplee's estimable credits since playing bully Frankie "The Enforcer" Stechino include American History X, Remember the Titans, Unstoppable and portraying Randy Hickey connected each 4 seasons of My Name Is Earl. He was besides successful Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, the Netflix comedy The Ranch, Edward Norton's noir drama Motherless Brooklyn and the arguable horror-satire The Hunt.
Suplee has a fig of projects lined up, including a instrumentality to the Kevin Smith universe successful the announced Twilight of the Mallrights.
Suplee has been joined to Brandy Lewis since 2006 and they person 2 children together. Last but not least, in January 2020 a photograph helium posted of his newly shredded self, the effect of a hard-won conflict to suffer value and get healthy, went viral. He's been a fittingness and nutrition advocator ever since.
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Adam Scott
After logging clip arsenic replacement bully Griff Hawkins, Scott became the consummate saccharine 'n' comic guy—with the occasional snide wise-ass and morose midlife-crisis-having joined feline thrown successful for bully measure.
His top hits see the aggravated HBO drama Tell Me You Love Me; the deed comedy Step Brothers; Starz' beloved Party Down (back for a caller play 13 years aft it was canceled); the adjacent much beloved Parks and Recreation; the sporadic and hilarious The Greatest Event successful Television History on Adult Swim; Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later; The Good Place and Big Little Lies. He earned his archetypal Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for his crook arsenic a melancholy widower—or is he?—in Apple TV+'s unhinged-workplace drama Severance.
In existent beingness Scott has 2 kids with Naomi Sablan, his woman since 2005.
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Anthony Tyler Quinn
"They lone brought him successful due to the fact that Friends became a hit," Strong recalled to Vanity Fair successful 2011 of leather jacket-wearing, motorcycle-riding, chill teacher Jonathan Turner, played by Quinn. "And ABC was like, 'We request twentysomethings connected each show. Including connected this kids' amusement that's lone watched by teenagers.'"
However, Shawn was devastated erstwhile Mr. Turner was successful a motorcycle clang astatine the extremity of play four—which Turner recovered from off-camera and was ne'er seen again until helium resurfaced on Girl Meets World, having married a caregiver helium met successful the infirmary aft the accident.
In the meantime, Quinn joined the play on Melrose Place for a four-year stint, was on Pretty Little Liars successful 2012, and popped up on Feud: Betty and Joan in 2017.
He's been joined to Margaret Quinn since 1985 and they person 2 children.