The show used to draw large audiences, but after Fran Fine (Drescher) and Maxwell Sheffield (Shaughnessy) got together, it marked the beginning of the “demise of the show.”įor years, The Nanny explored Fran Drescher’s character’s boiling sexual tension with her employer, played by Shaughnessy.
Speaking to Studio 10 on Wednesday about the terrifying home invasion and rape that happened to her 30 years ago, Fran Drescher lifted the curtain to reveal why The Nanny was canceled back in 1999, according to the Daily Mail.Īs it turns out, the on-screen romance between Fran Drescher and Shaughnessy killed The Nanny’s idea. The Nanny may have been canceled nearly two decades ago, but it’s never too late to set the record straight about why the hit CBS show was axed.
Fran Drescher says her on-screen romance with co-star Charles Shaughnessy killed The Nanny.
