Melissa Joan Hart: I was almost fired from ‘Sabrina’ for being too sexy 

Melissa Joan Hart captured the hearts of minor girls and boys alike when she starred within the 1996 sitcom “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.”

Whereas the “Melissa & Joey” alum was simply 20 when she appeared on the show, based on the Archie Comics character of the same name, she was aching for extra mature gigs because the ABC sequence progressed.

Nonetheless, the now-47-year-old’s magical, squeaky-clean picture was tarnished when she posed half-naked for the cover of Maxim magazine in 1999 — and she or he was accused of breaching her TV contract due to it.

On prime of that, she was practically fired, too.

She claimed she came upon she was being sued by the community on the premiere of her 1999 rom-com “Drive Me Loopy” — calling it the “worst day” of her life on a latest episode of the “Boy Meets World” rewatch podcast “Pod Meets World.”

She additionally revealed to hosts Danielle Fishel, Rider Robust and Will Friedle that, on account of her horny cowl shoot, she was even nearly booted from her function within the horror parody movie “Scary Film” — one thing that she allegedly additionally came upon on the purple carpet.

The Lengthy Island native, who appeared as Sabrina in a 1997 episode of “Boy Meets World,” stated that she was ready for a post-premiere automobile experience when she acquired the information.

“I get a name within the limo,” she stated. “They’re like: ‘You’ve been fired from the film, you’ll be able to return to your social gathering,’ as a result of there was an [after]social gathering at Planet Hollywood.

“I used to be imagined to go and shoot the film ‘Scary Film’ in Vancouver. I used to be imagined to be the opening, vivacious, big-breasted one that’s murdered or one thing at first,” she went on.

“Scary Film” was launched in 2000 and is a satire of the famed “Scream” franchise and was created by comedic brothers Marlon and Shawn Wayans.

Carmen Elektra wound up getting the function that was slated for Hart.

Hart stated that her lawyer requested her: “‘You probably did a photoshoot for Maxim journal?’”

“I’m like: ‘Sure, I did.’ They’re like: ‘Nicely, you’re being sued and fired out of your present, so don’t discuss to the press, don’t do something,’” she recalled.

“They have been like: ‘We’re being fired from the present,’ I’m like, ‘Oh, my God,’ so I’m crying, then the film will get out and everybody exhibits up,” she recalled of getting hit with the information on the premiere.

Her mom then frantically known as her up and questioned what occurred. “I’m like: ‘I don’t know, no matter my publicist advised me to do on the purple carpet or on the photoshoot!’” Hart stated. “I did a photoshoot for Maxim. It’s Maxim — after all, you’re going to be in your underwear.”

The “Clarissa Explains All” alum then identified how her Archie Comics contract acknowledged that she “would by no means play the character [of Sabrina] bare.”

She famous: “So right here they have been pondering I’m in breach as a result of I’m enjoying the character. No, that was imagined to be me selling my film [‘Drive Me Crazy’], it wasn’t imagined to be a personality. I had no management over what they wrote on the duvet.”

In the long run, Hart wrote an apology letter and the state of affairs had fizzled out. She would go on to play the teenage witch till the present’s cancellation in 2003.

Hart additionally mirrored on the backlash from the boys’s journal unfold, saying: “Can Melissa be horny? She’s 23 — is she allowed to be horny? What’s occurring right here? Is it allowed? Is it OK? Why is she being fired from her present? And all of the drama.

“It made for ‘Drive Me Loopy’ to come back out and be an enormous success.”