{"id":229147,"date":"2026-03-18T05:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/why-brian-austin-green-was-fired-from-nbcs-my-two-dads\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T05:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:44:13","slug":"why-brian-austin-green-was-fired-from-nbcs-my-two-dads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/why-brian-austin-green-was-fired-from-nbcs-my-two-dads\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Brian Austin Green Was Fired From NBC\u2019s My Two Dads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/brian-austin-green\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Brian Austin Green<\/strong><\/a> found fame as David Silver on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/beverly-hills-90210\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Beverly Hills, 90210<\/em><\/a>, he was fired from a popular sitcom.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview for the Monday, March 16, episode of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/brian-austin-green-meets-world\/id1629908611?i=1000755559666\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pod Meets World<\/a>\u201d podcast, hosted by former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/boy-meets-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Boy Meets World<\/em><\/a> stars <strong>Rider Strong<\/strong>, <strong>Danielle Fishel<\/strong> and <strong>Will Friedle<\/strong>, Green, 52, revealed he was let go from NBC\u2019s <em>My Two Dads<\/em> which aired from 1987 to 1990.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was on one episode of <em>My Two Dads<\/em> and it was the only time that I was ever fired,\u201d Green said on the podcast. \u201cWe had been rehearsing, and then we did a run-through, and I had a scene sitting at a table with <strong>Staci Keanan<\/strong>, who was on that show, and there was somebody else and I was really new to sitcoms and I just didn\u2019t completely understand the timing of it and \u2026 they were like, \u2018We\u2019re going to have to recast.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>My Two Dads<\/em> was created by <strong>Michael Jacobs<\/strong>, who also created and produced <em>Boy Meets World<\/em>, the ABC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/boy-meets-world-cast-where-are-they-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coming-of-age series<\/a> that ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 2000.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/brian-austin-green-couldnt-really-process-luke-perrys-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/brian-austin-green-couldnt-really-process-luke-perrys-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Brian Austin Green \u2018Couldn\u2019t Really Process\u2019 Luke Perry\u2019s Death<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tmikel roberts\/Sygma via Getty Images Brian Austin Green is reflecting on the difficulty of losing his Beverly Hills, 90210 costar Luke Perry so suddenly. \u201cThere was a part of me that couldn\u2019t really process that that was real,\u201d Green, 50, said in a Wednesday, January 31, clip of an upcoming episode of Getting Grilled With [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>After detailing his abrupt exit from <em>My Two Dads<\/em>, Green said the ousting left him concerned about one particular thing at the time. \u201cI was so young, I was like, \u2018OK, I still get paid for this day, right?\u2019 That\u2019s all I really cared about at that point,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n<p>As the \u201cPod Meets World\u201d hosts began to speculate whether or not the person who signed off on Green\u2019s exit was Jacobs, 70, Fishel, 44, offered Green some words of support. \u201cIf there\u2019s one gift I can give you, I would just like for you to know, it wasn\u2019t you,\u201d she told her guest, who admitted that it \u201cfelt like me\u201d when the dismissal went down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not saying you didn\u2019t feel like it was you,\u201d Fishel, who played Topanga Lawrence on <em>Boy Meets World<\/em>, responded. \u201cYou were definitely told it was you. But I do just want you to know. [Jacobs] threatened to fire me after my first day and I was already replacing someone who had been fired.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>After Fishel\u2019s reassurance, Green admitted that it was \u201cgood to know now\u201d and detailed that Jacobs was the person who approached him the day he was fired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very specific,\u201d Green began. \u201cHe came out and we were sitting in a restaurant, doing a scene sitting at a table, and he kept giving me these line readings of exactly what he wanted and I couldn\u2019t do it exactly that way, and that was it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green then joked, \u201cIt\u2019s affected me for a long time. I can\u2019t wait to tell my therapist.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/why-brian-austin-green-was-fired-from-nbcs-my-two-dads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Brian Austin Green found fame as David Silver on Beverly Hills, 90210, he was fired from a popular sitcom. During an interview for the Monday, March 16, episode of the \u201cPod Meets World\u201d podcast, hosted by former Boy Meets World stars Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel and Will Friedle, Green, 52, revealed he was let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-229147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}