The actress and ‘Jeopardy!’ co-host felt ‘ashamed’ after the sketch show parodied her with the use of a gigantic prosthetic nose.
Long before she was one of the hosts of Jeopardy! — but not before she played young Bette Midler in Beaches — Mayim Bialik was a sitcom star. Blossom was her show, and it might be again: There’s a reboot in the works, and if it comes to fruition it won’t be a comedy (with plenty of Very Special Episodes). The show made Bialik a household name — which means it inevitably got parodied in a 1994 sketch on SNL. But Bialik felt that one major detail of it crossed a line.
“The actress portraying me was dancing and mugging for the camera and she was hilarious,” Bialik wrote in a Variety op-ed, referring to Melanie Hutsell. “But. She wore a prosthetic nose. In order to truly convey that she was ‘Blossom,’ she wore a fake, big nose.”
She continued:
“I don’t know if it was significantly larger than my real nose and I don’t care to remember.
