“At one early stage, I was encouraged by my representation to try and be a little more diverse in how I present myself, and after trying several times, it became clear to me that I was already too established as ‘that comedian with the funny voice’,” she told. She had style, she had flair, she was there.įor decades, Drescher has been famous for her incredibly unique nasal voice, but if she’d listened to her agent when she was starting out, her career could have gone a very different way. “Honestly, I would have preferred not to wrap the show up the way it was at all,” Drescher said. “So 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 realised.” “I would have written a great season finale, but not changed the dynamic of the relationship ,” she explained to. In fact, given her way, Drescher would have starred in a very different series finale. Babcock and they were about to become parents themselves.Īfter watching the sexual tension between both couples throughout the series, it was the ending fans all thought they wanted - but as co-creator and star Fran Drescher, 60, has since admitted, it actually ended up killing the show. The family’s delightfully witty butler Niles had just gotten hitched to his longtime rival C.C. Maxwell Sheffield and Fran Fine were married with two kids of their own and heading off to California to start a new life. WHEN The Nanny wrapped up in 1999, everything seemed to be picture-perfect.

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