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Jan 2024
1h 9m

Boy Meets Will Friedle!!

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Former Nickelodeon kid Will Friedle talks to us about the days BEFORE he became Eric on the massive hit "Boy Meets World"...from commuting to the city at age 11, to moving to Hollywood as a teen, to his massive crush on Christine Taylor! He also talks about why he thought he was going to be fired from Boy Meets World, how his anxiety almost cost him his career, and how his mentor William Daniels (aka Mr. Feeny) helped him through it all.

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