Sabrina the Teenage Witch: The star of the series was almost fired because of the nude photos

Sabrina the Teenage Witch: The star of the series was almost fired because of the nude photos



Sabrina, the teenage witch : a teenager like no other

Sabrina, the teenage witch is considered by many to be a cult series of the 90s. Broadcast in the United States by ABC between 1996 and 2003, it was on France 2 and then on Canal J that the French public was able to discover the adventures of Sabrina Spellmanna not-so-ordinary teenager.

In fact, the girl possesses magical powers and is raised by two witches, her aunts Hilda and Zelda. Added to this a black cat named Salemgifted with a word and never missing a word to make a sarcastic remark.

But before being a witch, Sabrina is above all a high school girl with teenage problems. Especially with boys, it’s not always easy for her to bond with humans as she needs them hide his powers. But Sabrina, the teenage witch stay a comedya pure old-school sitcom, a far cry from the dark style of the Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018-2020), also drawn comics published by Archie Comics.

A series of bad news for Melissa Joan Hart

Playing Sabrina in the series, it is Melissa Joan Hart that had been chosen. The actress rose to fame through this role which stuck with her for a while throughout her career. It must be said that with seven seasons, 163 episodes and three made-for-TV movies, Sabrina has been a big part of her life. However, the actress has he was nearly fired from the show after just three years on the air.

Melissa Joan Hart - Sabrina, the Teenage Witch ©ABC
Melissa Joan Hart – Sabrina, the Teenage Witch ©ABC

This is what he recently revealed on the podcast The pod meets the world. The actress tells a very complicated night who lived in 1999. When he was just break up with her boyfriend at the time, she learned for the first time that she hadn’t been cast to appear in the play Scary movie (2000).

I should have been at the beginning of the movie and playing the busty girl who gets killed, or something like that.

Troublesome underwear photos

After this bad news, and when she was already pretty upset about the breakup, things didn’t go well. Once she arrived at a party, she received a phone call from her lawyer to inform her from which she would be fired Sabrina, the teenage witch because of’a photo session with the magazine Maximum.

My lawyer says to me: ‘Did you do a photo shoot for Maxim magazine?’. I answered yes. And he told me they were going to report me and kick me off the show, and that I shouldn’t talk to the press.

In shock, Melissa Joan Hart then received a call from her mother, also a producer.

She told me ‘but what did you do?’ and I said, “I don’t know, I did what my publicist told me, a photo shoot.” I did a photo shoot for Maxim! It’s Maxim, so obviously he had to be in his underwear.

Melissa Joan Hart©Maxim
Melissa Joan Hart©Maxim

If this kind of photo is normal for the magazine Maximumthe fact appear naked it was actually very problematic for Melissa Joan Hart. Without her knowing it, she wasa violation of his contract with Archie Comics.

This one said she wasn’t allowed”plays the character naked“. And how Maximum had used as the title of these photos: “Sabrina, your favorite witch without a point”, it was a character interpretation. Melissa Joan Hart had to do it apologize in a letter admitting her mistake so she can continue playing Sabrina.

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