’90s heartthrob Nate Richert was unrecognizable as he reunited with his Sabrina the Teenage Witch co-stars, much to the delight of the show’s fans. The 47-year-old, who portrayed Harvey Kinkle for all seven seasons of the hit teen series, met up with Melissa Joan Hart, who played the titular Sabrina Spellman, and Beth Broderick, who was the zany Aunt Zelda.
Nate looked so different without the luscious brown locks he rocked on the show, and instead wore a brown cap on his head, as well as a pink collared shirt and a black jacket. Melissa, who documented their reunion in a social media photo, sported a blue zip-up sweater over a white shirt, while Beth glowed in a beige scoop-neck shirt.
“When the magic fam comes together!” Melissa wrote in her Instagram caption, as fans rushed to the comment section to share the love. “You look amazing and beautiful, all of you!” said one fan, while another added: “Omg I love this SO MUCH.” Another chimed in: “This is so iconic,” while a fourth exclaimed: “Oh my lord it’s Harvey.”
Nate’s character, Harvey, was Sabrina’s on-and-off-again love interest and high school sweetheart throughout the series, with the pair ending up together in the finale. After the series was canceled in 2003 following a seven-year run, Nate struggled to find work in Hollywood, and his final on-screen credit was in the 2006 short H-e-n-r-y.
Aside from a brief role in 2024’s Failure to Launch, Nate hasn’t acted in 20 years and instead found work as a janitor and maintenance man. “I’m extremely lucky to have had any success at all, let alone solid work in film and TV for six years (20 years ago),” he wrote on X in 2018.
“I’m currently a maintenance man, a janitor, a carpenter and do whatever random jobs I can get to pay the bills. I do improv and [songwriting] to maintain my sanity. Actors so very rarely have job security or consistent work, quality healthcare, a reasonable retirement.”
© Disney General Entertainment Con“We are actors anyway because it is who we are at the core, for the love and need to bring the words on the page to life and to make you feel them (God, I love to make you laugh),” he continued.
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“Not for fame, at least not in the traditional sense. Fame, to me, has only ever meant ‘maybe more work someday.’ A necessary evil because fame equals the loss of anonymity, which can be uplifting when it brings someone joy, and hard when mean people decide to be mean.”
Although work largely dried up for Nate, he still attends fan conventions from time to time to talk about his experience on Sabrina, and he also launched a podcast with his co-star from the show, Curtis Andersen, titled The Nate & Curtis Show.
© Getty ImagesWhile Nate would likely sign on for a Sabrina reboot in a heartbeat, Melissa shared with E! News that pleasing the fans would be difficult.
© Disney General Entertainment Con“There’s too much red tape to get through. I mean, I think we would all have a lot of fun, but I don’t think that that necessarily makes for a good show just because we’re having a blast. I think that it’s really hard to reboot something, do it smart,” she explained.
“I think that people have thought about it for too long, and everyone has an idea of what they want it to be, but I don’t think it would ever make anyone happy.”
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