In the new tell-all “Book Meets World,” released Tuesday, Nov. 10 and co-written by Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel, and Will Friedle, Strong (Shawn Hunter) says a contract misunderstanding left him locked into the show’s seventh and final season at a disappointing salary — he calls it getting “completely screwed.”

Meanwhile, co-star Ben Savage (Cory Matthews) held out after getting into Stanford and negotiated a “huge pay increase,” landing close to — if not equal to — William Daniels’ (Mr. Feeny) pay of close to six figures per episode. Friedle says he and Strong were “making nowhere near that,” and Fishel got $30,000 per episode for Season 7, still 20 percent less than Strong and Friedle.

The book also reveals Savage has distanced himself from his former co-stars and hasn’t spoken to Fishel in years.

For millennials who grew up on the TGIF/ABC sitcom Boy Meets World (1993–2000), the revelations are a bittersweet nostalgia trip — and a stark reminder of the pay-gap fallout behind one of TV’s most beloved coming-of-age stories. The cast may have grown up together on screen, but behind the scenes, their final-season paychecks told a very different story.

Sources: Page Six and Entertainment Weekly.

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