Danielle Fishel Dishes on Her New Fashion Show
Danielle Fishel courtesy The Style Network
For seven seasons,
Danielle Fishel played the straight girl to
Boy Meets World's Ben Savage. Now, the all-grown-up Topanga is getting her goof on as host of
The Dish (Saturdays, 10pm/ET, Style), a fashion-centric spin-off from E!'s
The Soup. -
Damian Holbrook
TV Guide: So you're giving it to the fashion world, huh?
Danielle Fishel: Yes! Fashion is one of the areas you have to have a sense of humor [about], right? If you can't laugh at the choices you've made then maybe you're taking yourself too seriously.
TV Guide: What fashion mistakes have you made?
Fishel: Oh lordI wore a hot pink dress with this huge flower on it. I don't even like pink or flowers! And there were several outfits from
Boy Meets World that shouldn't have happened. [
Laughs]
TV Guide: Speaking of Boy, what the hell kind of name was Topanga?
Fishel: I grew up in the San Fernando Valley [near] Topanga Canyon, and in the '60s it was a huge hippie hangout. My character was very flower child like when she started, so the story is that one of [
Boy's] writers called the executive producer and said, "We still need a name for this character" and he just happened to be stuck in traffic in Topanga Canyon.
