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*Last week, some of the stars of NBC’s former sitcom “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” were together at a charity event, prompting lead cast member Will Smith to snap a reunion photo for his Facebook page, writing “Got the Holiday season started right with a ‘Fresh Prince of Bel Air’ reunion…there’s nothin’ like spending Holidays with fam!”
While James Avery (Uncle Phil), Karyn Parsons (Hillary), Alfonso Riberio (Carlton) and Tatyana Ali (Ashley) were in attendance for the photo, it’s no surprise that Janet Hubert, who played Will’s original aunt Vivian on the show, was not. TMZ tracked her down for comment on the “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” reunion speculation that was sparked after Will’s photo went viral.
“There will never be a reunion … as I will never do anything with an as*hole like Will Smith,” the actress told TMZ this weekend. “He is still an egomaniac and has not grown up. This constant reunion thing will never ever happen in my lifetime unless there is an apology, which he doesn’t know the word.”
The "Fresh Prince" reunion photo posted on Facebook by Will Smith
Hubert was famously replaced on the show by Daphne Reid following the 1993 season when her contract ran up and she could not reach a deal with NBC. As she wrote in her 2010 memoir, she was only scheduled to work for ten weeks during the following season’s production and was restricted by contract from other TV appearances, and could not make a living under those terms.
During the highly publicized fallout in 1993, Smith blasted Hubert for her attitude.
“I can say straight up that Janet Hubert wanted the show to be ‘The Aunt Viv of Bel Air Show’ because I know she is going to dog me in the press,” he told an Atlanta radio station. “She has basically gone from a quarter of a million dollars a year to nothing. She’s mad now but she’s been mad all along. She said once, I’ve been in the business for 10 years and this snotty-nosed punk comes along and gets a show.’ No matter what, to her I’m just the AntiChrist.”
As she told BVonBooks at the time (the site is now part of HuffPost’s Black Voices), “My departure was planned for a long time… There will never be a reunion of the ‘Fresh Prince.’ Will Smith and Alfonso [Ribiero, who played Carlton Banks] destroyed a 20-year-career with untruths. I got slammed. Will apologized later in an ‘Essence Magazine’ article, but it still lingers. It’s still there.”
In an interview last year with BlackAmericaWeb, Hubert said that Smith was abusive and arrogant and made racial jokes to the audience.
“I was a dark-skinned, African-American mother, and Will used to tell the you’re-so-black jokes to the audience before the show, and at one point, I came out and stopped him, and the audience went ‘Woooo,’” she remembered. “He didn’t understand how unbelievably disrespectful that was to women like me… ‘Yo mama’s so black, when she looks at her shoes, she thinks she’s looking in the mirror. Ha, ha!’”
Looks like you would move on after 15 yrs.
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Its kind of hard to think Will Smith as an asshole. He seems like a really nice guy. That is a horrid picture of all of them…there’s always “3″ sides to every story…
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I am convinced that’s she’s a bit mental and need to seek some serious help because she is truly a bitter woman. Will and the others have moved in from the show and have done some good with their lives. Why won’t she???
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Lord she needs to build a bridge and get over it. I know I am tired of hearing her rant and rave about how bad she was treated. If what they did was wrong or illegal did she try to sue? Please move on lady!
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Maybe she will be cast in Tyler Perry’s next movie as a disgruntled black woman who hates young black men because they have goals & are able to obtain them.
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woooooooooo, ZINGER!!
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Yeah 2 assholes if you asked me, with her being the bigger one because she keeps on about some 20 year ago bullshit. WTF did she think?? Will Smith was the star of the show and when it came time to choose between her having to go or him of course it was going to be her regardless of what! Will was definitely an asshole back then because he would do or say damn-near anything for a laugh, but at least he has the maturity and class to not “go there” everytime a camera or mic is put in his face! She needs to just move the hell on! She doesn’t seem like she’s the most easy person to get along with and she has an arrogance about herself too!
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