California DreamsStar Kelly Packard Finds Out She Set a '90s Record, Dating Both Savage Brothers on TV

Mar. 15, 2025

Fred Savage, Kelly Packard, Ben Savage.Photo:ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty, NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty, ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

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Kelly Packardonly appeared in three episodes ofBoy Meets World, but she seemingly made history while doing so.

TheCalifornia Dreamsstar, 49, caught up withPod Meets Worldco-hosts andBoy Meets WorldcostarsDanielle Fishel,Rider StrongandWill Friedleabout her time briefly playing two characters — Tracy and Candy — on the beloved ’90s sitcom.

“I just know how excited I was because I loved the show,” Packard said about bookingBoy Meets World.“And then I obviously left an impression because they just kept asking me back.”

Kelly Packard, Will Friedle and Stephanie Dicker on a 1994 episode of ‘Boy Meets World’.ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

“You do not know this, but we are here to commemorate a mind-blowing achievement you pulled off in the ’90s. And you, I think, are the only person we know to have accomplished this feat,” Fishel revealed to Packard.

TheBaywatchactress then furthered the story, pointing out that onBoy Meets World,she played love interests to both Friedle’s Eric Matthews, as Tracy,andSavage’s Cory, as Candy.

Friedle corroborated her story. “Yes. I think you’re right,” the actor said. “We got along very, very well, and then I was just so nervous around you for the next couple of episodes.”

Kelly Packard in 2023.Steven Ferdman/Getty

Steven Ferdman/Getty

“I found that interesting that I had you know, that I grew up enough in, what, a year, that I was old enough to date you,” Packard joked to Friedle about her character change from Cory to Eric’s girlfriend.

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While Packard and Friedle had a brief romantic spark on television, she remembers their friendship just as fondly.

“I didn’t obviously get quite as close to you, Danielle, and you, Rider, but Will and I got pretty close,” the actress recalled. “We were really friends, and so we just hit it off from the first time I was on. And so it was exciting to go back and see him every time.”

source: people.com