Risque Maxim Photoshoot Almost Caused Melissa Joan Hart To Be Fired From SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH

Risque Maxim Photoshoot Almost Caused Melissa Joan Hart To Be Fired From SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH

Melissa Joan Hart, who starred in Sabrina the Teenage Witch, recently disclosed that a Maxim cover shot almost resulted in her being sued and terminated from the comedy series.

By MarkJulian - Aug 23, 2023 07:08 PM EST
Filed Under: Archie Comics
Source: sffgazette.com

Long before Netflix's the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina starring Kiernan Shipka, the Archie Comics teenage witch reigned supreme on ABC's TGIF lineup in a family sitcom that starred Melissa Joan Hart. 

However, the worst day of Melissa Joan Hart's life occurred while she was headlining the show and was set to attend the premiere of the 1999 romantic comedy Drive Me Crazy.  

She confessed the details during the Pod Meets World podcast, which is hosted by Boy Meets World alums Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle, and Rider Strong.

Joan Hart co-starred in the film, which was headlined by Britney Spears, and revealed that on that particular rough day, she had just broken up with her boyfriend and was stuck waiting in a car to walk the red carpet for the Drive Me Crazy premiere.

"I had to wait on the red carpetThey wanted me to wait in my car for like an hour for Britney to show up so we could do photos together. And I was like, ‘Can I just go, start doing the press?’ [They were like,] ‘Nope, You’ve got to wait for Britney.'"

She didn't even get to stay for the premiere because she was supposed to fly out for a film role in Scary Movie but got the news on the way to the airport that she had been replaced by Carmen Electra.

"I was supposed to be the opening, vivacious, big-breasted one that’s like murdered or something in the beginning."

Hart then turned around and went to the afterparty for Drive Me Crazy, where her lawyer informed her that she was being sued by Archie Comics and fired from Sabrina the Teenage Witch because of a scantily-clad cover for the latest issue of Maxim.

"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.'"

It turns out Hart had a clause in her contract with Archie Comics and the sitcom that stated that she couldn't appear nude in character as Sabrina, and the Maxim cover for her photoshoot read, "Sabrina, your favorite witch without a stitch."

The suit was eventually dropped once all parties determined that Hart couldn't be held liable for a headline that she had no control over.

Still, that's a rough 24 hours, to say the least.

However, the now 47-year-old actress looked back on the ordeal while laughing as she retold the story on the podcast.

Sabrina the Teenage Witch is a comic book series from Archie Comics and follows the adventures of Sabrina Spellman who first appeared in the publisher's books in 1962. The comic follows a teenage half-witch, who lives with her two aunts, who are also witches. The character frequently crosses over with the characters in the publisher's titular comic book, Archie.

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santoanderson
santoanderson - 8/23/2023, 7:37 PM
So these strikes… they’re really making it hard for movie news websites, huh?
MarkJulian
MarkJulian - 8/23/2023, 7:51 PM
@santoanderson - What’s that? More Twitter rumors, you say…?
TheVandalore
TheVandalore - 8/23/2023, 8:02 PM
@MarkJulian -

Them hill be ripe with news, I says! We only have to keep on lookin, is all!!!
Kadara
Kadara - 8/23/2023, 8:10 PM
@santoanderson - I imagine this is what addicts must go through when their dealer leaves town for a few days 😂
VictorAlonzo
VictorAlonzo - 8/24/2023, 12:21 AM
@TheVandalore - 😂
theBlackSquare
theBlackSquare - 8/24/2023, 7:25 AM
@santoanderson - haha just came here for the comments. Wasn't disappointed.
Steel86
Steel86 - 8/23/2023, 7:37 PM
I can't wait till the strikes are over. They are grasping at straws for stories to write on here, Lol.
MasterMix
MasterMix - 8/23/2023, 7:39 PM
mountainman
mountainman - 8/23/2023, 7:39 PM
I remember that issue 😏
Kadara
Kadara - 8/23/2023, 8:11 PM
@mountainman - You missed a T there 😏
mountainman
mountainman - 8/23/2023, 8:28 PM
@Kadara - Being a teenage boy in the 90s was rough. We had to settle for stuff like this, that Jennifer Anniston issue of Rolling Stone, or if lucky find a friend who found their dad’s hidden stash.

Or if we were desperate, there was the sears catalog.
DarthOmega
DarthOmega - 8/23/2023, 8:43 PM
@mountainman - I had it. My ex threw every Maxim, and King magazine I had out as soon as she moved in. I had a crush on her ever since Clarissa Explains it All
DarthOmega
DarthOmega - 8/23/2023, 8:45 PM
@mountainman - I remember the struggle. When I was but a young lad I would switch to the Playboy channel. The image was always distorted, but if you tried hard enough you could make out a boob or an ankle. Possibly an elbow.
mountainman
mountainman - 8/23/2023, 9:32 PM
@DarthOmega - I was lucky in that my parents got cable back in the 90’s. Always had HBO and got the free Cinemax preview weekends when they offered it.

We had to earn that stuff though. Not like today.
IronMan616
IronMan616 - 8/23/2023, 9:55 PM
@mountainman - My (adult) cousin who lived next door to us when we were in our teens had the ultimate stash. He lived in a duplex apartment, but the apartments were upstairs/downstairs, well one summer day when he was at work we scaled up the house made our way to a window and opened it. Lol. Yeah he had all sorts of girly magazines. Kids these days have it way easy.
VictorAlonzo
VictorAlonzo - 8/24/2023, 12:22 AM
@DarthOmega - This guy gets it.
mountainman
mountainman - 8/24/2023, 12:29 AM
@IronMan616 - It’s so easy for older folks to compare generations. But I’d like to think that the people who grew up in the pre-internet era had a vastly different childhood than the post-internet era.

And not just this specific thing. On so many levels. I consider myself lucky to have grown up until my teenage years with no internet. It was such a different time.

I appreciate the luxuries of today and I’m sure there are some benefits for kids growing up even. We just had it different. And it was great. There was this wonder and discovery to the world that just doesn’t seem to exist in this modern age:
Kadara
Kadara - 8/24/2023, 7:46 AM
@mountainman - Dude I'm right there with you LMAO!! And me being stuck with multiple siblings, there was never a space to read any of the articles of these lovely publications 😭
VoiceofReason
VoiceofReason - 8/24/2023, 1:34 PM
@mountainman - JC Penny for me...
KillerOfSaints
KillerOfSaints - 8/23/2023, 7:41 PM
Had it
Origame
Origame - 8/23/2023, 7:46 PM
Gotta say, I find this pretty interesting in context to current depictions of women. There's this insistence that we got to move past the time where actresses were effectively being forced to dress scantily clad. Yet here, an actress nearly lost her job over dressing scantily clad.
dracula
dracula - 8/23/2023, 7:48 PM
man this site is desperate for news

what next an article on Brando's son shooting his sister's boyfriend
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 8/23/2023, 10:34 PM
@dracula - that’s not comic book related… unless Brando Jr. is un the running for the role of Reed Richards in the “Highly Anticipated”, possible reboot of the Fantastic Four franchise
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 8/23/2023, 10:36 PM
@WruceBayne - up not un
dracula
dracula - 8/23/2023, 11:28 PM
@WruceBayne - pretty sure all the brandos are dead

Although Marlon was in the best superman movie
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 8/24/2023, 12:23 AM
@dracula - have you seen how much they paid that dude to play Joe-El?
dracula
dracula - 8/24/2023, 3:02 AM
@WruceBayne - dont know the exact numbers but it included part of the profit which is why he was cut out of the sequel (luckily we got the donner cut)
DocSpock
DocSpock - 8/23/2023, 7:55 PM


I need a lot more photos to enjoy judging this article.

AzorAhai
AzorAhai - 8/23/2023, 7:55 PM
Melissandre had magic boobs too
DarthOmega
DarthOmega - 8/23/2023, 8:03 PM
Lol. My favorite Comic Book Movie
Nightmare
Nightmare - 8/23/2023, 8:18 PM
She was ahead of her time with that dump truck on that show.

DianaGohan
DianaGohan - 8/23/2023, 8:37 PM
You know I first heard about this issue... over 20 years ago when Dan Drazen was talking about how stupid Archie Editorial is (he reviewed the Archie Sonic comics and talked about Sabrina cause 1999's the year Sabrina and Sonic had a crossover in the comics) so don't know why CBM is trying to make this sound like a new thing. I guess an amusing anecdote from a recent podcast of Melissa just venting off steam but... there's a difference between that and talking about more current news which granted yeah probably harder to find with the strike going on but come on guys.
marvel72
marvel72 - 8/23/2023, 8:44 PM
Off topic: RIP Terry Funk a Wrestling Legend and a pioneer of Death Match Wrestling

IronMan616
IronMan616 - 8/23/2023, 9:56 PM
@marvel72 - Terry Funk was awesome. RIP.
marvel72
marvel72 - 8/24/2023, 2:23 PM
@IronMan616 - I became a fan of him during his days at WCW but I really liked him in Japan and ECW I will never forget his barbed wire match with Sabu.
TheOtherOn
TheOtherOn - 8/23/2023, 9:07 PM
Wait until MCU kids find out what "risque" shoots Thanos and Scarlet Witch did together in 2013 😉
TheLobster
TheLobster - 8/23/2023, 9:25 PM
MJH bringing that heat back in the day. Respect.
DudeGuy
DudeGuy - 8/23/2023, 9:39 PM
Weird. I thought her name was Clarissa.
Deadinside
Deadinside - 8/24/2023, 10:02 AM
@DudeGuy - 😉 Well, that would explain it all...!☮👍
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