Danielle Fishel Had a Secret Crush on Rider Strong

• Danielle Fishel told Ryder Strong on their podcast that she had a crush on him when they were young.
• She said the couple had a “very good, deep friendship” at the time she developed feelings.
• Fishel also revealed why she and Ben Savage knew they could never date in real life.

Danielle Fishel admitted to her former Boy Meets World co-star Ryder Strong that she had a crush on him during Thursday’s episode of their Pod Meets World podcast.

At around 2:40 p.m. on a Q&A episode, Fischel answered a question from fans by asking if there were any crushes or romances backstage on the show. “I’ll go first, I was in love with Ryder,” she said.

Strong, who hosts a podcast with Fishel and Will Friedle, gasped at the revelation. “That’s not true, you never told me that,” he said, expressing shock that Fishel waited almost 30 years to tell him.

“I think it started maybe later in the first season and definitely in the second season,” Fishel said. The actors at the time were about 12 or 13 years old.

Fishel said she thinks she was attracted to him as a young man because he was “so smart”.

“You know one of my favorite things about Ryder and it still holds true today: Ryder is very eccentric,” she continued. “He’ll tell you how he feels and he’s very free with his compliments, but he doesn’t throw them willy-nilly. When Ryder compliments you, it’s thoughtful, it makes sense, and you can say… a very real place.”

Although Fischel thought Strong was probably “annoyed” by being “a typical LA girl” when they first started working together, she said that she and Strong ended up forming a “very sweet, deep friendship.” filled with “meaningful conversations” that drew her in. him as a young man.

The sitcom’s director also recalled an instance when, during an acting class, Strong gave her a “very real compliment” about her talent, which made her feel. My God, I love you, she thought.

She also said she found a diary she had kept for months while working on Boy Meets World that was “embarrassing” because she added a postscript note with the names of the boys she loved. Fishel said that Strong’s name often appears on this list.

Fishel married her current husband Jensen Karp in 2018. They have two sons, Adler, 3, and Keaton, who will be 1 on August 29. Strong has a 6-year-old son named Indigo with his wife Alexandra Barreto, whom he married. in October 2013.

Despite her attraction to Strong, he is not the co-star that Fischel eventually went on a date with. Fishel previously admitted that she and her former on-screen love Ben Savage once stepped out during the show to see if their characters’ cult romance could translate into a real-life relationship.

“And then we went to dinner and said, ‘No! ‘ she previously told People.

On Thursday’s episode of the podcast, Fishel detailed why she realized very quickly that a romance with Savage wasn’t going to work.

“Very quickly while eating at a restaurant, we realized that this is a difficult line to jump over,” she said. “It was quite obvious that, no, what we had was just really fun, not romantic. something I would consider something more than just friendship.”

She explained that playing as someone’s romantic partner for seven years on a TV show and so much kissing on screen forces people to build a “common story” that feels more than platonic but “not romantic at all.”

Fischel described his connection with Savage as “an indefinable type of relationship”.

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