{"id":18222,"date":"2021-03-25T06:10:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T06:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=18222"},"modified":"2021-03-25T16:21:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T16:21:23","slug":"the-nanny-fran-mr-sheffield-relationship","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/the-nanny-fran-mr-sheffield-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nanny Named Fran Wasn\u2019t Really Meant To Marry Mr. Sheffield"},"content":{"rendered":"

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She was the leopard mini-wearing Jewish nanny from Flushing, Queens; she had style, she had flair, she was there, and Miss Fine and her nasal giggle were a staple presence in homes of millions across the world every night in the 90s. But when the wildly successful television show The Nanny<\/em><\/a> wrapped in 1999, the finale wasn\u2019t how star Fran Drescher imagined.<\/p>\n

In fact, the actress, now 63, says she would have loved to have kept Fran Fine and Maxwell Sheffield\u2019s sexual tension in place and not seen them marry, a decision she says the show was pushed into by the studio\u2019s producers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would have written a great season finale, but not changed the dynamic of the relationship [between Fran and Maxwell],\u201d she explained to news.com.au in a resurfaced interview<\/a>. \u201cSo the show would have ended with her being the nanny of the kids, and him being her boss but the two of them sharing a certain attraction that never got realized\u2026 Honestly, I would have preferred not to wrap the show up the way it was at all. That was dictated to us by the network \u2014 to get [Fran and Maxwell] married, and hope they could get one last season out of it and increase ratings. It really wasn\u2019t our choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fran Drescher (left, as Fran Fine) and Charles Shaughnessy (right, as Maxwell Sheffield) star in THE NANNY. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Her opinion does come as surprising as season after season, audiences would tune in to see just how this love story would end. We waited for the moment CC Babcock didn\u2019t <\/em>burst into Mr. Sheffield\u2019s office at the exact time he may have kissed Miss Fine. We waited while Mr. Sheffield watched on with judgment and jealousy as Miss Fine went on numerous dates with very unsuitable suitors. There was closeness, there were near-misses and for six seasons of flirtation, we waited for these two to get together. When they finally did, audiences cheered and their wedding, had it been in today\u2019s social media world, surely would have been dubbed as much of a must-watch as Meghan and Harry’s.<\/p>\n

What we didn\u2019t buy into was the secondary plot line \u2013 Niles the Butler getting together with CC. It appears too, the character\u2019s didn\u2019t understand this union either.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the only part that I never really bought, to tell you the truth,\u201d Daniel Davis, who played Niles, said to news.com.au<\/a>. \u201cC.C. and I had been so oil and water \u2014 I didn\u2019t buy that we would end up married. But I had to play it, because that\u2019s what they wrote \u2026 I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever expressed that to anyone before!\u201d<\/p>\n

The Nanny<\/i><\/a>, will be available on\u00a0HBO Max<\/a>\u00a0to stream\u00a0all six seasons from April 1.<\/a><\/p>\n

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