Jonathan Taylor Thomas was the teenager heartthrob who received each younger lady’s coronary heart within the Nineties and have become affectionately referred to as JTT.
The actor was finest recognized for his starring function in Dwelling Enchancment for eight seasons between 1991 and 1998, and for voicing younger Simba within the authentic The Lion King film in 1994.
He continued to work a little bit till the mid-2000s, however then took a step again from Hollywood. So what has he been as much as since then?
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What’s Jonathan Taylor Thomas doing now?
Like many youngster stars earlier than him, Thomas merely simply needed a break from the highlight.
After Dwelling Enchancment he starred within the Christmas movie I will Be Dwelling for Christmas and visitor starred in hit sequence 8 Easy Guidelines, Veronica Mars and Smallville between 2002 and 2005.
However in 2013 JTT made a shock return to TV in a three-episode visitor function on TV dad Tim Allen’s sitcom Final Man Standing and directed one episode of the present.
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However in line with IMDB he hasn’t acted in something since.
Nonetheless, the 43-year-old made headlines in December 2023, merely for being noticed going for a stroll, such is the rarity of his appearances.
Whereas it is not clear what he’s as much as work-wise as of late, he’s listed as a member of SAG-AFTRA’s Nationwide Board for 2023 to 2025. So being an energetic member of the actor’s union hints that he’s nonetheless a part of the Hollywood neighborhood.
Dwelling Enchancment forged: Then and now
His Dwelling Enchancment TV mum Patricia Richardson shed some mild on JTT’s present profession aspirations in an interview in March 2024. Her feedback got here after Allen steered the forged was eager for a Dwelling Enchancment reboot.
“It was so bizarre, I might hear he was popping out publicly and saying these things about everybody was on board to do a Dwelling Enchancment reunion, however he by no means requested me and he by no means requested Jonathan [Taylor Thomas],” Richardson mentioned on the Again to the Finest podcast, per Individuals, revealing she referred to as JTT when she heard Allen’s feedback.
“I imply, Zach is now a felon, Taran (Noah Smith) hasn’t acted since he left the present; he is not an actor anymore and Jonathan’s probably not desirous about performing – he desires to direct and write and we do not have Wilson.”
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Why did Jonathan Taylor Thomas stop performing?
All indicators level to the truth that Thomas merely wanted a life exterior of performing.
Thomas labored 10-hour days on the set of Dwelling Enchancment and his summer season breaks have been spent on film units.
“You will have college, pals, studying your strains and ensuring your efficiency is on top of things. I can not inform you what number of exhibits I’ve carried out with full-blown migraine complications,” Thomas advised Individuals in 1994.
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After stepping again from performing, he went to Harvard and studied historical past and philosophy. In 2010, he graduated from the Columbia College Faculty of Normal Research.
“I would been going nonstop since I used to be eight years previous. I needed to go to high school, to journey and have a little bit of a break,” he advised Individuals in 2013.
“To take a seat in an enormous library amongst books and college students, that was fairly cool. It was a novel expertise for me.”
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How previous is Jonathan Taylor Thomas now?
Thomas, who was born in 1981, is now 43 years previous.
Does Jonathan Taylor Thomas have a spouse?
Thomas’ private life has been principally saved underneath wraps. His present relationship standing is unknown.
What’s the web price of Jonathan Taylor Thomas?
In response to celebritynetworth.com, Thomas is reportedly price $US12 million (approx. $19 million).
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Why did Dwelling Enchancment get cancelled?
Tim Allen and Patricia Richardson have been each supplied massive cash to return for a ninth season of Dwelling Enchancment however turned it down.
Richardson was reportedly supplied $US1 million per episode whereas Allen was supplied $US2 million per episode and an govt producer credit score. Allen took the deal however his TV spouse requested to be paid the identical and now have an govt producer credit score.
Richardson was eager to depart in 1999 after season eight following a divorce to spend time together with her household and her request was a method out.
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“I knew that Disney would by no means pay me that a lot. That was my method to say ‘no’ and was a little bit little bit of a flip-off to Disney. I would been there all this time, and so they by no means even paid me a 3rd of what Tim was making, and I used to be working my ass off. I used to be an enormous purpose why girls have been watching,” Richardson advised the Los Angeles Instances.
With out Richardson’s character Jill everybody agreed the present would not work so it ended with a three-part finale.
Has the Dwelling Enchancment forged reunited for the reason that present ended?
Regardless of any frustration between Allen and Richardson over pay or Allen and Thomas over the then-teenager’s resolution to depart Dwelling Enchancment, the trio did come collectively on display screen in an episode of Final Man Standing.
In 2015, Richardson performed Helen, a neighbour of Allen’s character Mike. On the finish of 1 episode simply because the credit begin rolling, Helen tells Mike she realises she must go meet her son.
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Then the digicam cuts to the fence the place Helen opens the gate and lets her son – performed by Taylor – in.
He says “Mum” and so they hug earlier than Mike walks over to shake his hand and says “I do not suppose we have met.”
Helen introduces her son as “Randy” (additionally the identify of Taylor’s Dwelling Enchancment character) who tells Mike “You look acquainted”.
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Will Jonathan Taylor Thomas seem in Tim Allen’s new sitcom?
In March 2024 it was introduced that Tim Allen would return to TV with a brand new household sitcom Shifting Gears.
Allen performs Matt the widowed proprietor of a automotive restoration store who will get the prospect to reconnect along with his estranged daughter Riley (performed by Kat Dennings) and her children.
Forward of the present’s premiere within the US on January 8 little has been introduced aside from the primary forged and a few recurring roles.
However on condition that Allen’s earlier sitcom introduced Taylor again to TV for a number of episodes and a directing function, it is cheap to suppose that we may even see him pop up on Shifting Gears in some unspecified time in the future if the present is a hit.
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