Before Danielle Fishel was playing with Cory Matthews on Boy Meets World, she was playing with Magic Nursery First Surprise Babies. She looks the same now as she did when she was 10 in that 1991 commercial.
Back in the ’89s and ’90s, Millennial teens were watching TGIF on ABC on Friday nights. They watched sitcoms like Full House, Boy Meets World, and Step By Step. However, they never were able to watch all on the same night or see the casts together.
But that changed recently because several cast members from each series got together to have a Podswap!
Who took part in the Podswap? It was Full House’s Andrea Barber, Jodie Sweetin, Boy Meets World’s Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle, and Step By Step’s Stacy Keanan and Christine Lakin.
What did the seven of them talk about? Lakin says, “We share our weirdest holiday gifts, favorite Christmas movies, and so much more!
How much fun would it be if someone could figure out how to do a crossover movie with the seven of them? It would totally transport us back to our childhoods!
Danielle Fishel had something about her health to share with her fans, so she told her audience today on Pod Meets World.
“I was recently diagnosed with DCIS, which stands for Ductal carcinoma in situ, which is a form of breast cancer,” she told Rider Strong and Will Friedle. “It’s very, very, very early. It’s technically stage zero.”
She then said because it was caught so early, she will be fine. She will have to go under the knife and then preventative treatment, but that is all for now.
At first, the Boy Meets World star wanted to keep it private. But she decided to share it with everyone in case her diagnosis can help someone else.
The actress made time to get a mammogram, and her cancer was caught very early. So, she is encouraging others to do the same.
Danielle Fishel and Ben Savage played a couple on Boy Meets World, but did the actors date in real life?
Fishel revealed they did. On her podcast, Boy Meets Pod with Rider Strong and Will Friedle, she admitted that she asked her co-star on a date to see what it would be like and if there was anything between them. However, after 20 minutes, they realized they were just friends.
Even though they really didn’t date, she was still called a bicycle because she was rumored to have dated different men from the show, including Matthew Lawrence.
The actress was asked if she could change any storyline, what would it be? She said that she wished that Cory and Topagana did not get married so quickly.
She explained, “I think I might have her still do the proposal, and maybe he still says yes, [and] we go through the whole planning. Then, we end up deciding it’s maybe not the right choice for us now.”
Even though she was against them getting married at the beginning of the season, she would’ve been OK with them tying the knot at the end of it.
She also didn’t like how the writers upped the stakes to accommodate their characters’ marriage.
Back in the ’90s, teenage boys were watching The Wonder Years and Boy Meets World, and they were having wet dreams about Danica McKellar and Danielle Fishel. But they never saw the two actresses together.
Over the weekend, they got to hang out at ’90s Con in Tampa, Florida, and took this photo. And now those boys are having dreams their wives don’t want to know about. But hopefully, they are benefitting from those dreams.
Especially since Fishelle, 42, and McKellar, 48, look even better now than when we knew them as Topanga and Winnie Cooper.
