Girl meets boy! Danielle Fishel found her happily ever after in husband Jensen Karp — and their love story is still going strong.While many fans shipped the Boy Meets World alum with one of her several former costars, including Ben Savage and Rider Strong, Fishel never thought of either one as more than a childhood crush.“I had a crush on Rider.
He was so smart and … one of my favorite things about Rider — and it continues to this day — Rider is very effusive,” Fishel confessed during an August 2022 episode of “Pod Meets World,” which she cohosts with Strong and Will Friedle. “He will tell you how he feels and he’s very free with his compliments, but he doesn’t throw them out willy-nilly.
When he compliments you, it is thoughtful, it has meaning, and you can tell it’s coming from a very real place.”Strong, who played Shawn Hunter on the Disney Channel series alongside Fishel’s Topanga Lawrence, was taken aback by the revelation.“That’s not true.
That’s not true, you never told me that. You saved that for 30 years?” he asked. “So … I was your first celebrity crush. [It was] Jonathan Taylor Thomas and me.
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