Danielle Fishel Recreates Prom Photos With Her Famous Ex-in the Same Dress From 1999
Danielle Fishel, who is famous for playing Topanga Lawrence on Boy Meets World, went to prom with *NSYNC member Lance Bass in 1999, during her senior year of high school. The pair met when she interviewed his boy band for a special on ABC, then dated for about a year.
On April 20, the 44-year-old actress posted a video to her social media pages capturing her and Bass recreating their iconic prom look. In the background, "I'm Just a Kid" by Simple Plan plays while they are shown posing with a corsage. Then the video cuts to their original prom photo.
@daniellefishel8 We recreated our 1999 Prom pic, hoverhand and all (and yes, that's the ACTUAL dress!) I still don't know why we didn't work out!! @AmericanIdol #americanidol
♬ I'm Just a Kid - Simple Plan
Fishel captioned the post, "We recreated our 1999 Prom pic, hoverhand and all (and yes, that's the ACTUAL dress!) I still don't know why we didn't work out!!" Fishel joked.
Thousands of fans liked the video. One commented, "The fact they went to prom together is so wholesome." Another said, "Not for nothing, the two most gorgeous people from my childhood! What a dream."
In the past, Fishel has spoken about how wonderful their short-lived relationship was on her podcast, Pod Meets World, a rewatch podcast hosted by Fishel and her former costars, Rider Strong and Will Friedle.
"Lance and I had a very wonderful, very warm, loving relationship," she said. "But it was completely lacking of intimacy-intimacy in the romantic sense. I held on for hope for way too long that we were going to get back together and get married and have a family … It turns out I'm not Lance's type."
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Bass broke up with Fishel two weeks after prom, and the split allegedly pushed him to start accepting himself. "That is the night Lance talks about," Fishel said. "Where he felt like he was hurting me by not being honest with himself or anyone else about what was going on in his life. And so it was kind of the impetus for him to say, 'I'm going to end our relationship.'"
Bass came out as gay in 2006 and married his husband, Miachael Turchin, in 2014. They have twin children. Fishel is also married. She tied the knot with her husband, Jensen Karp, in 2018. They share two sons.
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This story was originally published April 21, 2026 at 11:00 AM.