Brian Austin Green Opens Up About His Unexpected Exit from ‘My Two Dads

Before Brian Austin Green gained widespread recognition as David Silver on Beverly Hills, 90210, he experienced an early career setback when he was dismissed from a well-known sitcom.

In a recent chat on the “Pod Meets World” podcast, hosted by Boy Meets World alumni Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel, and Will Friedle, Green, 52, recounted being let go from NBC’s My Two Dads, a show that aired from 1987 to 1990.

“I appeared in a single episode of My Two Dads, and it remains the only time I was fired,” Green recalled during the podcast. “We had been rehearsing, moved to a run-through, and I had a scene at a table with Staci Keanan and someone else. Being new to sitcoms, I struggled with the timing, and eventually, they decided, ‘We need to recast.’”

My Two Dads was the brainchild of Michael Jacobs, who also created and produced Boy Meets World, the beloved coming-of-age series that aired on ABC for seven seasons, from 1993 to 2000.

Reflecting on more personal challenges, Brian Austin Green recently opened up about the sudden loss of his Beverly Hills, 90210 co-star, Luke Perry. Green, 50, shared in a January 31 preview of an upcoming “Getting Grilled With…” episode, “There was a part of me that couldn’t quite believe it was real.”

After detailing his abrupt exit from My Two Dads, Green said the ousting left him concerned about one particular thing at the time. “I was so young, I was like, ‘OK, I still get paid for this day, right?’ That’s all I really cared about at that point,” he recalled.

As the “Pod Meets World” hosts began to speculate whether or not the person who signed off on Green’s exit was Jacobs, 70, Fishel, 44, offered Green some words of support. “If there’s one gift I can give you, I would just like for you to know, it wasn’t you,” she told her guest, who admitted that it “felt like me” when the dismissal went down.

“I’m not saying you didn’t feel like it was you,” Fishel, who played Topanga Lawrence on Boy Meets World, responded. “You 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.”

After Fishel’s reassurance, Green admitted that it was “good to know now” and detailed that Jacobs was the person who approached him the day he was fired.

“It was very specific,” Green began. “He 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’t do it exactly that way, and that was it.”

Green then joked, “It’s affected me for a long time. I can’t wait to tell my therapist.”