After Fred Savage was fired from ‘Wonder Years’ reboot, more details are emerging

Who is Fred Savage?

That question might leave some Gen X-ers rolling their eyes, because, duh: He’s Kevin Arnold, the star of “The Wonder Years,” who had a crush on Winnie Cooper, the girl who lived across the street, and grew up before our eyes.

But generations who weren’t glued to the TV back then might know Savage more from the misconduct accusations that were leveled against the actor-director earlier this year. They were significant enough to cost him his executive producer and director jobs on the current ABC reboot of that coming-of-age TV comedy.

On Tuesday, the women who accused 46-year-old Savage of misconduct earlier this year opened up to the Hollywood Reporter with details of their allegations. “I and the other women feel that people need to know what the wrongdoing was,” one woman told the trade publication.

In light of that article, here’s some background