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Girl Meets World’s Danielle Fishel claimed her experience on the Boy Meets World spinoff series was not always a pleasant one during a heated exchange with former costar Maitland Ward.
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Wandering down this road that we call life hasn’t always been a breeze for Danielle Fishel.

In fact, the Boy Meets World alum recently revealed that her return as Topanga on the spinoff series Girl Meets World—which premiered in 2014, almost 15 years after the original show ended—came with its own set of challenges.

“It was a very, very difficult set in those three years,” Danielle admitted on the Feb. 24 episode of her podcast Pod Meets World. “Let's put it this way, the memories we have of the fun set of Boy Meets World were not the memories or the fun set of Girl Meets World. It just wasn’t.”

She continued, “It was a rather tumultuous place. It was a place I felt very ostracized. I felt very criticized. I felt a lot of different things being on that set.”

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Boy Meets World's Danielle Fishel and Maitland Ward Reignite Feud During Intense Argument

The 43-year-old’s comments about Girl Meets World—which starred Sabrina Carpenter and Rowan Blanchard, in addition to original cast members Ben Savage and Rider Strong—occurred during a heated confrontation with Danielle’s former costar Maitland Ward, who accused Danielle of not speaking to her on the spinoff series.

“That was not the set of Danielle being carefree and running around shaking hands and kissing babies,” she continued to Maitland. “So I am sorry that you thought I had something personally against you.”

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For her part, Maitland accused Danielle of giving her the cold shoulder on set, though she said she didn’t understand why.

“You had an attitude about it,” Maitland explained to Danielle. “I know there was some beef between us because I didn’t get it. And maybe I picked up the wrong signals, but definitely there was some sort of weirdness there.” 

While the two actresses engaged in a tense back and forth, they ultimately decide to agree to disagree. As Danielle told Maitland, “I’m sorry that you thought it was about you. You and I have totally different and both perfectly valid experiences.” 

But that wasn’t the only drama the group—which also included podcast hosts and Boy meets World alums Will Friedle and Rider—discussed after Maitland accused the trio of hating Ben.

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But Will fired back, claiming it was Ben that refused to speak with them.

“Ben is one of the most important people I’ve ever met in my life and I can’t stand the fact that he won’t speak to us,” the Kim Possible alum explained. “And that’s what it is: He won’t speak to us.”

Will noted that the reason for the estrangement still remains a mystery.

“I can show you the last three years, literally, of messages and in the middle of a conversation with Ben, he just bailed on me,” the 48-year-old continued. “Ben absolutely one day woke up and said, ‘I don’t want Will in my life,’ and never told me why.”

For more on where the Boy Meets World cast is today, keep reading.

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Ben Savage

Savage played Cory Matthews on Boy Meets World, which anchored ABC's TGIF lineup from 1993 to 2000.

He went on to graduate from Stanford in 2004 with a degree in political science and continued to pop up on TV (Party of Five, Chuck) and the occasional indie film before reuniting with TV sweetheart Danielle Fishel to reprise their roles on the 2014 Disney Channel spin-off Girl Meets World.

After that show ended in 2017, Savage (whose older brother is The Wonder Years star Fred Savage) appeared on series including The Leftovers, Speechless, Criminal Minds (as a young Jason Gideon) and Homeland (as young Saul, making that two gigs playing a Mandy Patinkin character as a younger man). While he's yet to appear on his former co-stars' Pod Meets World podcast, he and Fishel reunited in 2021 for a rom-com spoof touting perfect lunch date spot Panera Bread.

His Instagram indicated for years that he had a wedding-date-caliber girlfriend, but he kept her identity pretty private—until he popped the question and confirmed in March 2023 that he'd married longtime love Tessa Angermeier.

Savage unsuccessfully sought a seat on the West Hollywood City Council in 2022 and Congress in 2024.

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Danielle Fishel

Between playing Topanga Lawrence (and then Matthews) on Boy Meets World and Girls Meets World, Fishel—whose first kiss was a smooch for the show with Ben Savage—was mainly herself on TV, appearing as a correspondent on The Tyra Banks Show and hosting Style Network's The Dish. She also went back to college at 27 and earned her degree in 2012. 

She met first husband Tim Belusko at school, and they were married for two years before quietly divorcing in 2016. She wed Drop the Mic host Jensen Karp in 2018, with former co-stars Savage (who congratulated his "favorite TV wife" on her engagement) and Will Friedle in attendance.

Fishel and Karp welcomed son Adler in June 2019 and his brother Keaton in August 2021. The enviably coiffed actress also, most fittingly, launched a hair care line, Be Free by Danielle Fishel, and after directing several episodes of Girl Meets World continued on behind the camera, helming episodes of Disney Channel's Sydney to the Max, Raven's Home and Lopez vs. Lopez.

She also co-hosts Pod Meets World with Friedle and Rider Strong. And on an August 2024 episode of the show, Fishel shared she was diagnosed with DCIS, a form of breast cancer that she noted is "technically stage zero."

"I'm gonna be fine," she told listeners. "I'm having surgery to remove it. I'm going to be on some follow-up treatment."

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Rider Strong

After playing Shawn Hunter on Boy Meets World, Strong most notably starred in Eli Roth's 2002 sleeper horror hit Cabin Fever and its 2009 sequel, was one of the stars of the short-lived Pepper Dennis and voiced Brick Flagg in the animated series Kim Possible before returning to play Shawn in seven episodes of Girl Meets World. 

Strong has also been behind the camera, writing, directing and producing some shorts and the 2017 TV movie Micah the A--hole Ghost with brother Shiloh Strong (who was originally up for the role 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 in October 2022.

In 2013, Strong married Alexandra Barreto and their son, Indigo, was born in December 2014.

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Will Friedle

Friedle showed up as big brother Eric Matthews again on Girl Meets World, but in the meantime his voice became ubiquitous in 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 before he attended Fishel and Karp's wedding, he was best man at the 2004 nuptials of Step by Step star Jason Marsden, TGIF cross-over programming at its finest. In December 2019, he sported a T-shirt with Topanga's face on it, a bit of swag courtesy of  his future podcast co-host's hair care line.

Friedle married Susan Martens in 2016.

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William Daniels

Daniels, a two-time Emmy winner for St. Elsewhere as well as an original star of the musical 1776 and the voice of David Hasselhoff's car K.I.T.T. on Knight Rider, secured himself a new generation of fans playing Mr. Feeny on Boy Meets World.

After serving as president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1999 until 2001, Daniels continued to make guest appearances on the likes of Scrubs, Boston Legal and The Closer and had an arc on Grey's Anatomy in 2012. Now 97, Daniels' most recent physical acting work was reprising the role of Mr. Feeny on Girl Meets World, and he keeps up with appearances at fan conventions—but he also provided the voice of K.I.T.T. for 2020's Superintelligence.

The native New Yorker has been married to actress Bonnie Bartlett since 1951 and they're parents of two sons.

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Betsy Randle

After Boy Meets World, the Chicago native notably played Mrs. Winterbourne on Charmed and returned for a few episodes of Girl Meets World as Cory and Eric's mom Amy Matthews.

In real life she's mom to daughter Jessica and son Aaron with editor husband John Randle.

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William Russ

Russ, whose film work includes The Right Stuff and American History X, has remained a busy character actor after playing dad Alan Matthews on Boy Meets World, appearing on Boston Legal, The Young and the Restless, 90210, Colony, NCIS: Los Angeles and, most recently, Bosch, 9-1-1 and Animal Kingdom. He also returned to Girl Meets World with TV wife Betsy Randle. 

Behind the scenes he's dad to a son and daughter with wife Clare Wren.

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Lee Norris

Strong claimed at Wizard World Comic Con, per Looper, that Norris' character Minkus was written out because of the popularity of fellow TGIF geek Steve Urkel over on Family Matters, and the Boy Meets World creatives didn't want to double down on comedic nerdom. 

Norris, who got his acting start as little Chuckie Lee from The Torkelsons, went on to graduate from Wake Forest, play another small-screen geek, Marvin "Mouth" McFadden, on The CW's long-running drama One Tree Hill, and return as Minkus for a few episodes of Girl Meets World. He has since been on a couple episodes of The Walking Dead, been directed by David Fincher in Zodiac and Gone Girl, and appeared in the 2020 WWII action drama Greyhound with Tom Hanks.

He's been married 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 also on the sitcom Brotherly Love with real-life siblings Andrew and Joey Lawrence, and has been in numerous indie films and guested on shows including Boston Public, CSI: Miami, Workaholics, Melissa and Joey and Hawaii 5-0. He's also gotten into the cinematic holiday spirit, starring in Mistletoe Mixup and Christmas on Repeat.

Lawrence married Dancing With the Stars pro Cheryl Burke on May 23, 2019, 13 years after they first met and dated (followed by a decade-long break) when she was paired with his brother Joey on the show. They divorced in 2022 and Lawrence is now dating TLC singer Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas.

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Trina McGee

McGee has been in a number of made-for-TV movies and short-lived TV series and also reprised the role of Shawn's girlfriend Angela on an episode 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 in the 2000 series finale, resulting in Angela's premature departure for Europe while everyone else was tying up loose ends. 

Friedel insisted "that never happened" and McGee said she regretted any past bad blood between her and Fishel, noting they could have been more of a team during the show's run. Fishel agreed, saying, "We could've helped each other."

Now McGee, who was previously married to Courtland Davis, is back in the fan-convention fold and reunited with the aforementioned trio for Daniels' 96th birthday on March 31, 2023. She is also a singer, artist and mother of kids, Ramia, Langston and Ezra.

In 2024, McGee announced she was expecting her fourth baby at age 54. But later that year, she shared that she suffered a pregnancy loss.

"I did lose the baby," McGee said on a September episode of The Tamron Hall Show. "It wasn’t expected; it was closer to the end of the first trimester. We really don’t have any real reasons why." 

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Maitland Ward Baxter

After playing college siren Rachel McGuire on Boy Meets World, Ward starred in the 2004 comedy White Chicks with Marlon and Shawn Wayans, but went on to win three AVNs after making her adult-film debut in 2019's Drive. 

"I found out that I love sexual performance," she told The Daily Beast in April 2021, talking about the unexpected direction her acting career had taken. "It's like being in a dance, or an ice-skating pair. You're doing this great artistic piece, and I just love it." 

And the move has continued to work for her, as she's also a 2023 AVN Best Actress winner and author of the memoir Rated X.

Married since 2006 to Terry Baxter, she told In Touch Weekly in January 2020 of her real estate agent husband, "He is a very good photographer, too. He has taken pictures of me along the way."

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Lily Nicksay

The first of two Morgan Matthews, Nicksay played Cory and Eric's little sister from 1993 to 1995—then scored a role in the Michelle Pfeiffer-Robert Redford romantic drama Up Close and Personal.

As she grew up, the actress guest-starred on a few TV shows, including The Mentalist, 8 Simple Rules and Judging Amy, and later returned as 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 name on a 2019 episode of NCIS and in the 2021 film Four Cousins & a Christmas.

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Lindsay Ridgeway

After the "longest nap ever," Morgan re-appeared from a year of being in another room of the house as an older, entirely different girl.

Ridgeway, who took over the role of Morgan in 1996 until the series' end in 2000, graduated from UC Riverside in June 2007 and earned a master's degree in counseling from the University of Redlands in 2010. Also a singer, she has performed the national anthem at pro sporting events around Los Angeles, and worked part time for the Los Angeles Kings hockey team as a member of the Kings Ice Crew.

She also came back as Morgan for the Girl Meets World finale.

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Linda Cardellini

Lauren got between Cory and Topanga for a mercifully brief four-episode arc.

Cardellini graduated from Boy Meets World to the shamefully short-lived Freaks and Geeks, and after that it was off to the races in Scooby-Doo, ER, Brokeback Mountain, Mad Men (earning an Emmy nomination for guest actress in a drama series), New Girl and the Netflix drama Bloodline. She also joined the Marvel Universe as Clint/Hawkeye's wife, was in the 2019 Best Picture Oscar winner Green Book, and both co-starred and was a producer on the Netflix dark comedy Dead to Me (earning 2020 Emmy nominations for Best Comedy Series and Best Actress in a Comedy).

The actress is mom to daughter 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 on all four seasons of My Name Is Earl. He was also in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, the Netflix comedy The Ranch, Edward Norton's noir drama Motherless Brooklyn and the controversial horror-satire The Hunt.

Suplee has a number of projects lined up, including a return to the Kevin Smith universe in the announced Twilight of the Mallrights.

Suplee has been married to Brandy Lewis since 2006 and they have two children together. Last but not least, in January 2020 a photo he posted of his newly shredded self, the result of a hard-won battle to lose weight and get healthy, went viral. He's been a fitness and nutrition advocate ever since.

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Adam Scott

After logging time as replacement bully Griff Hawkins, Scott became the consummate sweet 'n' funny guy—with the occasional snide wise-ass and morose midlife-crisis-having married guy thrown in for good measure. 

His greatest hits include the intense HBO drama Tell Me You Love Me; the hit comedy Step Brothers; Starz' beloved Party Down (back for a fresh season 13 years after it was canceled); the even more beloved Parks and Recreation; the sporadic and hilarious The Greatest Event in Television History on Adult Swim; Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later; The Good Place and Big Little Lies. He earned his first Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for his turn as a melancholy widower—or is he?—in Apple TV+'s unhinged-workplace drama Severance.

In real life Scott has two kids with Naomi Sablan, his wife since 2005.

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Anthony Tyler Quinn

"They only brought him in because Friends became a hit," Strong recalled to Vanity Fair in 2011 of leather jacket-wearing, motorcycle-riding, cool teacher Jonathan Turner, played by Quinn. "And ABC was like, 'We need twentysomethings on every show. Including on this kids' show that's only watched by teenagers.'"

However, Shawn was devastated when Mr. Turner was in a motorcycle crash at the end of season four—which Turner recovered from off-camera and was never seen again until he resurfaced on Girl Meets World, having married a nurse he met in the hospital after the accident.

In the meantime, Quinn joined the drama on Melrose Place for a four-year stint, was on Pretty Little Liars in 2012, and popped up on Feud: Betty and Joan in 2017. 

He's been married to Margaret Quinn since 1985 and they have two children.

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