Sabrina The Teenage Witch turns 27 years old today (September 27) and 90s kids will remember the iconic show.
Melissa Joan Hart was the star of the show and she recently opened up about how she was almost fired from the show years ago for doing a racy Maxim magazine photoshoot. Melissa posed for a men’s magazine in her underwear when she was 23 years old.
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The 90s star luckily didn’t lose her job over the shoot but did find herself in some hot water with her bosses. But she’s famously not the only one who has got in trouble for posing for racy shoots while on TV.
Here at Daily Star to celebrate the anniversary of the show we have decided to take a look at other kids’ TV stars who stripped off for the camera.
Melissa Joan Hart
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Melissa told Pod Meets World last month that her lawyer showed up at a party she attended at Planet Hollywood and asked Melissa if she had posed for Maxim. She said: “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.'”
(Image: Maxim)
The star explained that her mother phoned her to check up on her and she fumed: “I did a photoshoot for Maxim, it’s Maxim, of course, you’re going to be in your underwear.” Luckily for Melissa, she explained that the people who tried to sue her had “no ground to stand on.”
She said: “What happened was the magazine wrote ‘Sabrina, your favourite witch without [a stitch]…’ I’d never heard of someone being on the cover of a magazine and not using their name, they used Sabrina.”
Miley Cyrus
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Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus was scrutinised for a 2008 photoshoot where she posed “topless” at the age of 15 in Vanity Fair. In her Used to Be Young series on TikTok she spoke about her decision to do the shoot for the first time at explained that it was “divide her from her Hannah Montana persona.
She explained: “Everyone knows the controversy of the photo but they don’t really know the behind-the-scenes, which is always much more meaningful. My little sister, Noah, was sitting on Annie [Leibovitz]’s lap and actually pushing the button of the camera, taking the pictures. My family was on set.
“This was the first time I ever wore red lipstick. Because Patti Dubroff, who did my makeup, thought that that would be another element that would divide me from Hannah Montana..”
“This image of me is a complete opposite of the bubblegum pop star that I had been known for being and that’s what was so upsetting.”
Sarah-Jane Honeywell
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Sarah-Jane Honeywell landed herself in some serious hot water and got axed from her CBeebies show for her racy snaps. The star took part in a PETA shoot back in 2011 where she posed topless on a giant plate of food.
Shortly after the shoot, Sarah was sacked without warning. Appearing on BBC Radio Lincolnshire in 2021 Sarah explained: “I’m not really that political. I was just like, ‘I’ll do it to help’.
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Sarah explained that PETA had approached her to take part in their topless shoot because she is vegan and she didn’t think that the BBC would have an issue with it. She said: “I felt really lost, I felt like I’d lost my identity. My whole kind of sense of purpose, identity, everything about me felt like it was slipping away.”
At the time, she said, fathers would often stop her for photos, while mothers would “scowl”, which she said was “not very kind attention.”
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