Alyssa Milano and Holly Marie Combs hit back at Charmed producer who left series

Alyssa Milano and Holy Marie Combs have taken concern with present Gray’s Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff’s rationalization for why she left their hit series Charmed as a author and producer.

The previous co-stars didn’t agree with Vernoff’s assertion throughout a brand new interview that she was ‘creating one thing that is now dangerous for the world’ after engaged on the present for 3 seasons.

Vernhoff singled out one explicit Charmed episode, the place Milano was wearing a revealing mermaid outfit, that performed a job in her choice to maneuver on from the supernatural fantasy drama.

Hitting back: Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano had been united in disagreeing with Krista Vernoff’s assertion that she was contributing to ‘creating one thing that is now dangerous for the world’ about halfway by means of the series’ eight season run (1998-2006)

‘I signed on as a result of Charmed was a girl-power present,’ Vernoff, 49 shared in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

‘About midway by means of there was an episode the place Alyssa Milano comes out in mermaid pasties and there was an enormous spike in male viewership, and then each episode after, the query would come from the community, “How are we getting the ladies bare this week?”‘ she defined.

She went on to share how she was supplied double her wage to do a fourth season however turned it down.

‘And so they had been throwing cash at me, and the quantity retains going up, and there’s all this strain, and all I can suppose is, “I am creating one thing that is now dangerous for the world, and I’ve had sufficient dangerous for the world in my life.”‘  

Vernoff singled out the mermaid episode, the place star Alyssa Milano was wearing a revealing mermaid outfit, as to taking part in a job in her choice to maneuver on from the supernatural fantasy drama

Her take: In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Vernoff stated ‘the query would come from the community, “How are we getting the ladies bare this week?”‘ after the mermaid episode

The episode in query was among the many two-part season 5 premiere, A Witch’s Tail, that aired in September 2020. 

For its first three seasons, Charmed was the second-highest rated series on The WB, behind seventh Heaven. By its fifth season, the series turned the highest-rated Sunday night time program in The WB’s historical past.   

Milano, who performed the function of Phoebe Halliwell throughout the present’s total eight season run, received emotional when she responded to Vernoff’s revelation.

‘Effectively, this totally broke my coronary heart. I hope we did not make one thing that was ‘dangerous for the world’ for eight years,’ Milano shared on Twitter.

‘I feel we gave permission to a technology of girls to be themselves and to be robust and personal their sexuality. I am so happy with what this present meant to so many.’  

Stars align: Milano, 48, nonetheless feels Charmed was a optimistic girl-power present

Stars align: Combs, 47, hit back straight and declared Charmed ‘was not dangerous for the world’

‘Rallying in opposition to it’Combs stated she ‘by no means cared what producer or community executives wished’ the three main girls  ‘extra bare for the $,’ in one other tweet

Combs, who performed the function of Piper Halliwell, didn’t mince phrases when she disagreed with Charmed being ‘dangerous for the world’ on Twitter. 

‘I can attest 1000% Charmed was not dangerous for the world. The explanations and individuals are too lengthy to checklist. Perhaps it was dangerous for Krista’s world at the time. Finish story.’ 

She added, ‘And the truth that we are able to nonetheless rise up for ourselves and the present and the folks who liked it proves this. I by no means cared what producer or community exec wished us extra bare for his or her $. And nonetheless don’t. We knew learn how to rally in opposition to it and discovered our personal energy. And nonetheless do,’ together with the hashtag #Details.                            

Cash maker: The series, which ran for eight seasons, turned the highest-rated Sunday night time program in The WB’s historical past by the fifth season