Will Friedle hasn’t “given up” on “friend” and former “Boy Meets World” co-star Ben Savage as he continues to ghost him and the rest of the cast.
“I know I’m shouting into the void, but I’m going to keep doing it. I haven’t given up on my friend,” the “Batman Beyond” alum told People on Wednesday. “I’m hoping that he comes back into our lives at some point, and when he does, we’re going to have a lot to talk about.”
The actor admitted he still has the urge “to pick up the phone” and called Savage so they can talk.
Friedle and Savage played onscreen brothers Eric and Cory Matthews, respectively, on the ABC series for its entire seven-season run from 1993 to 2000.
Danielle Fishel, who played Savage’s love interest, Topanga Lawrence, on the coming-of-age sitcom, expressed the same sentiment about wanting to hear from their former friend.
“I love imagining him in this new chapter of his life as a dad. I know he has had a baby girl,” Fishel said. “He’s now a husband. So I love just thinking about him [in that capacity].”
“We talked a lot about how he looked forward to being a dad someday. So I like imagining this phase of life that he’s in now,” she said, adding that it makes her “sad” she can’t be a part of the other “milestones” in Savage’s life.
However, the “Dancing With the Stars” alum shared that she’s reached “a place of immense understanding and grace” when it comes to Savage not wanting to “look back” at their time on the show.
“Not everybody wants to talk about uncomfortable truths,” she explained. “The three of us said it was something that we did want to do. Although we were nervous, it was a journey we were willing and excited to go down.”
Fishel, 45, and Friedle, 49, launched rewatch podcast “Pod Meets World” with fellow former “Boy Meets World” co-star Rider Strong in 2022.
Savage was initially reported to co-host the show as well, but made the decision to step away from the project.
“It’s been hard,” Friedle said of Savage’s absence from the project. “Just today, literally, we were recording an episode this morning of ‘Pod Meets World’ and there came a question that we all wanted to know, that we know if Ben had been on with us, it would have been answered like that and we would have heard a great story.”
In 2023, the three podcast hosts revealed Savage had ghosted them without reason.
“He disappeared — I wish I knew why, to this day,” Friedle told Variety at the time. “We didn’t have a fight. There’s no falling out. There was no animosity. He just woke up one day, and decided ‘I don’t want this person in my life anymore.’”
“He just kind of disappeared from our lives,” Fishel told the outlet, adding, “He ghosted us.”
Since distancing himself from the group, Savage pivoted to a career in politics — first running for a seat on the West Hollywood City Council in 2022 and then running as a Democrat for California’s 30th Congressional District in 2024. Both runs were unsuccessful.
Earlier this month, William Daniels, who portrayed George Feeny on “Boy Meets World,” and his longtime wife, Bonnie Bartlett, who eventually became Mrs. Feeny on the beloved teen sitcom, revealed there were “problems” among the cast and crew on set.
“They had some problems working together as … they grew up,” Bartlett exclusively told Page Six, noting that it’s “very unusual” for child stars to “grow up” on camera and then “continue in the business.”
“They have grown up together. They’ve been very smart. They’ve done well — all of them. That’s very unusual in a cast with children,” she marveled. “They’ve done a good job of that. They’re good people. They’re all good people.”
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