Melissa Joan Hart Reveals Her Cozy Christmas Plans, Surprising Dream Gift and Why She ‘Never Watched Clarissa or Sabrina’ (EXCLUSIVE)
The '90s TV star opens up about fame and reconnecting with what matters most
The holiday season is upon us and Melissa Joan Hart, 49, is ready to celebrate. In a recent interview with Woman’s World, the Clarissa Explains It All and Sabrina the Teenage Witch star revealed how she plans on celebrating the holidays, the way a partnership with Ancestry.com is helping with that, what she wants for Christmas and much more. She also opened up about which of her shows she’s watched and which ones she chose to skip. To read what she had to say, keep scrolling!
Melissa Joan Hart’s cozy holiday plans
Christmas is less than 40 days away and according to Joan Hart, this year she’s “really cutting back the card list, the invite list of the party and the amount of school involvement I take so I can get back to the holidays, which is family.”
“I’m gonna decorate less. I’m gonna stress less. I really want to shop in person, wrap the gifts and hand them to people. I don’t want to just go online and mindlessly find something that looks good on some website and, boom, it ships to them. I don’t even get that interaction with them, because it really is about being connected, and I feel like we’re so disconnected,” she continued. “I also love sending out my Christmas cards, but this year I’m only sending it to family and maybe the Sabrina crew, because we didn’t keep in touch via email.”
Speaking of Christmas, the actress says she really wants an Ugg bathrobe. “I think I might be doing some Ugg bathrobes for some people. I want to get my family all these really nice hair brushes. So I think I might make nice items that are useful.”
Also useful? The trash can Joan Hart asked her mother-in-law for a few years ago.
“She said, ‘I’m not buying a trash can.’ And I tried to tell her that I really wanted it and I don’t want to spend the money on myself. And she’s, like, ‘I’m not buying a trash can. I cannot do it. It just doesn’t feel right. Like, you’re just gonna tell people my mother-in-law gave me a trash can?’” Joan Hart joked.
As for what the actress is giving, she’s partnered with Ancestry.com to spread the word of gift memberships, which she says “really helps you connect with your ancestors, and it really helps you pass that down to other generations.”
Melissa Joan Hart reflects on her TV fame
Joan Hart made a name for herself over the years thanks to television shows like Clarissa Explains It All (1991-1994), Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996-2003) and Melissa & Joey (2010-2015), though according to her, she hasn’t actually watched much of them.
“I never watched Clarissa or Sabrina. I’ve seen a few episodes, but I’ve never watched it, mainly because when I was doing Sabrina on Friday morning, they would hand us a VHS and say, ‘This is tonight’s episode.’ I would shoot all night long and be there till one, 2 AM and the last thing I wanted to do on Saturday was go home and watch a show I filmed three weeks ago. So I never watched it from a viewer’s perspective, except for the pancake episode, because I tried to explain to my kids what addiction was, and that’s all about her being addicted to pancakes. So I was, like, ‘This is a good way to explain kids’ addiction,’ especially sugar addiction,” she said.
“Melissa & Joey was a different thing, because it was during a time when Twitter and social media started and so I would live tweet the shows,” Joan Hart continued. “It was pretty cool, because they wanted us to bring in live viewers, and the way to do that was to live tweet the commentary while you’re watching the show.”
As for what she’s doing now: She’s a producer on the new Netflix movie, A Merry Little Ex-Mas, starring Alicia Silverstone and Oliver Hudson. “I don’t always love watching myself and even watching this one was a little hard. Luckily, I’m not the star of that movie, I’m just the producer… but it was still hard.”
Be sure to check out Ancestry.com and Joan Hart’s new movie A Merry Little Ex-Mas, which is available to stream on Netflix.
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