Tim Allen and Patricia Richardson were both offered big money to return for a ninth season of Home Improvement but turned it down. It was also suggested Richardson walked alway because network executives didn't offer her equal pay to Allen. Collider reports that Allen was also disinterested in making another season as two of the three Taylor boys — Thomas and Taran Noah Smith — had moved on from the show. Thomas, who played middle child Randy Taylor on Home Improvement , left a little before the final season ended and famously didn't return for the finale.
At the time, his co-star Tim Allen was reportedly disgruntled by his decision to return to school in Los Angeles instead of finishing the show. Did he want to do films? Did he want to go to school? I don't think he liked that. Thomas' explanation for his vanishing act was that he was "back east" and the timing didn't work out.
Born Jonathan Taylor Weiss on Sept. By age seven, Jonathan was working as a model for print advertisements. Apparently, the acting bug bit and bit him hard. The Bradys failed, and Jonathan was quickly looking for a new gig. Jonathan was just ten-year-old when he first brought the middle Taylor child to life.
With his trademark shaggy hair, blue eyes, and bright smile, Jonathan quickly became a teen idol for millions. For seven seasons — episodes in total — Jonathan worked hard at his career and his schooling. As he juggled his TV show and school, his movie career was taking off. Thomas started his scholastic journey at Harvard University. He then spent a year studying abroad at St. Andrews University in St. Andrews, Scotland. Apparently he wasn't just hitting the books at St.
Andrews, as The Scotsman , a local paper, reported that JTT was threatening to steal fellow student Prince William 's top "heart-throb" title. Then he went on to graduate under his given name Jonathan Weiss from Columbia University's School of General Studies in with an advanced degree. Speaking to People in about his time in academia, Thomas said, "To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool," adding, "It was a novel experience for me.
Despite enjoying his time at school, Jonathan Taylor Thomas didn't exit Hollywood completely. He kept in touch with his showbiz connections throughout the late '90s and early s, and he even revisited his previous cartoon voiceover success with a recurring role on The Wild Thornberrys. The Wild Thornberrys aired on Nickelodeon from to The cartoon follows a family on their grand adventures and is told from the point of view of Eliza, their daughter who can talk to animals.
Thomas' six-episode arc was in the show's third season in He played Tyler Tucker, Eliza's cousin. Thomas' first episode, "Tyler Tucker, I Presume," introduced the character and established that, since the cousins are close in age, the two butt heads often.
Thomas' remaining five episodes as Tyler showed Tyler and Eliza going on to compete with one another and causing complications for the entire family. The '90s star didn't limit his guest appearances to cartoons. On Smallville , Thomas played Ian Randall, a metahuman with the power to create copies of himself. He first appeared as Ian in , introducing the character in Season 2, Episode 9 , "Dichotic.
The three episodes originally aired in Then, in , Thomas guest-starred in one episode of Veronica Mars. He appeared in Season 1, Episode 18, " Weapons of Class Destruction ," as a new student named Ben whom Veronica, played by Kristen Bell , suspects is responsible for a series of bomb threats. Thomas' first guest appearance on Last Man Standing was in He played John Baker, a young man who quickly courts one of the main characters, in three episodes.
The most notable moment of his appearances, though, is when Thomas' character meets Tim Allen's Mike Baxter, who greets him with lines like, "Man, you look familiar," and "That kid was raised right," joking about their previous on-screen father-son relationship on Home Improvement via People. Season 4, Episode 12 had Richardson playing Helen Potts, a widow and Max Baxter's new neighbor, who enjoyed loudly working with power tools — a nod to the famous neighbor character from Home Improvement.
In that episode, Thomas briefly played a different character: Randy, her son. Jonathan Taylor Thomas has spent some time on the other side of the camera, too. JTT taking a turn in the director's chair isn't surprising. He first gave fans a clue he had directorial hopes back in , when he was just He told Premiere magazine that even though Hollywood wants him to be the next Macaulay Culkin, he had dreams of becoming "the next Ron Howard.
He's back out here in L. He didn't stop at directing! Jonathan Taylor Thomas has also pursued producing and writing.
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