‘Home Improvement’ Co-Star Patricia Richardson Says Pay Disparity With Tim Allen Ended Show
deadline.comPatricia Richardson, who starred as family matriarch Jill Taylor on the hit ABC sitcom Home Improvement, said she used the large pay gap between her and co-star Tim Allen to avoid continuing with the show. “I told everybody, ‘There’s not enough money in the world to get me to do a ninth year,'” she said in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times. “This show is over.
It needs to end.” Richardson claims ABC offered her $1 million per episode and Allen $2 million per episode for a 25-episode ninth season.
Allen was willing, but Richardson wanted to spend more time with her family in the wake of her divorce from Ray Baker. Still, she claimed gave her pitch to ABC: pay her the same amount as Allen and give her an executive producer credit on the show.
Then would she sign on for another season. She offered it knowing it was doomed. “I knew that Disney would in no way pay me that much,” she told the Times. “That was my way to say ‘no’ and was a little bit of a flip-off to Disney.
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