{"id":2092293,"date":"2025-10-15T06:33:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2092293"},"modified":"2025-10-15T06:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:33:15","slug":"mr-feeny-actor-98-makes-rare-appearance-on-dwts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mr-feeny-actor-98-makes-rare-appearance-on-dwts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Feeny Actor, 98, Makes Rare Appearance on &#8216;DWTS&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">William Daniels &#8212; beloved for his role as Mr. Feeny on <em>Boy Meets World <\/em>&#8212; made a rare appearance to support one of his former students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Daniels, 98, appeared on stage on Tuesday night&#8217;s episode of <em>Dancing With the Stars <\/em>as Danielle Fishel and partner Pasha Pashkov honored the acting legend with a dedicated Jive set to the show&#8217;s theme song.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The iconic TV teacher stood against a makeshift principal&#8217;s desk ahead of the pair&#8217;s dance routine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Saying it out loud feels crazy, but yes, we get to dance to the <em>Boy Meets World<\/em> theme song, the one you all know and love,&#8221; Fishel said on the October 8 episode of her podcast, &#8220;Danielle with the Stars.&#8221; &#8220;And Bill Daniels is going to be on the ballroom floor with us, and I&#8217;m so excited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fishel and Pashkov scored a 29 out of 40, with judge Derek Hough calling it &#8220;lively, light [and] lovable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In addition to Daniels, former <em>Boy Meets World <\/em>stars Will Friedle, William Russ, Betsy Randle, Matthew Lawrence, Alex D\u00e9sert, and Trina McGee were in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;He\u2019s just somebody I have looked up to as a man, as an actor, as a professional,&#8221; the <em>Girl Meets World <\/em>actress said ahead of her dance. &#8220;It\u2019s been over 30 years since we met and I know how proud he is of me. He really means a lot to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tuesday night&#8217;s episode of <em>Dancing With the Stars <\/em>broke records, reportedly surpassing 50,000,000 votes for the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DrewDisneyDude\/status\/1978280438201213416\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:first time ever;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">first time ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><i>This story was originally reported by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mensjournal.com\/news\/mr-feeny-actor-98-makes-rare-appearance-on-dwts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Men's Journal;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Men&#8217;s Journal<\/a> on Oct 15, 2025, where it first appeared in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mensjournal.com\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">News<\/a> section. Add Men&#8217;s Journal as a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=mensjournal.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Daniels &#8212; beloved for his role as Mr. Feeny on Boy Meets World &#8212; made a rare appearance to support one of his former students. Daniels, 98, appeared on stage on Tuesday night&#8217;s episode of Dancing With the Stars as Danielle Fishel and partner Pasha Pashkov honored the acting legend with a dedicated Jive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2092294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[394674,362476,41508,50227,394673],"class_list":["post-2092293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bill-daniels","tag-boy-meets-world","tag-dancing-with-the-stars","tag-danielle-fishel","tag-william-daniels"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Mr-Feeny-Actor-98-Makes-Rare-Appearance-on-DWTS.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092295,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092293\/revisions\/2092295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2092294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}