If you grew up in the 90s, chances are you were *slightly* obsessed with Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
The show had everything – a witch, quirky aunts, Salem the talking cat – and a complicated love interest in Harvey Kinkle.
One character that didn’t enjoy a lot of screen time was Sabrina’s best friend in series one – curly haired, idealist Jenny.
While we’ll all remember that one-liner “hair grows!”, she soon got sidestepped for Valerie for the remaining six seasons of the show.
So during an interview with The Huffington Post, it wasn’t shocking that Melissa Joan Hart was quizzed about the fate of her former best friend.
It seems Jenny was a bit of an outsider both on and off-screen, with Hart hinting that the character was either dropped due to a lack of popularity, or a conflict with the writers:
“Season by season our show’s cast would come and go based on audience reaction, and sometimes there’d be dispute about contracts and negotiations as far as payment goes for certain actors. And just bringing in a fresh perspective from a different character.
“Also, there’s a lot of politics that go on behind the scenes, like when a writer develops a certain character they get paid on the [likeness] of that character for every episode. If a writer develops a character, but that writer’s gone and there’s bad blood, they might get rid of the character they developed, so they didn’t have to pay them anymore. There are a lot of things that go into that situation.”
They do say TV is a tough business…
