Watch:Home Improvement’s Jonathan Taylor Thomas Seen in Rare Reunion Photo
Jonathan Taylor Thomas’ latest sighting would be hard to improve on.
TheHome Improvementstar, who stepped back from Hollywood in 2015, made an extremely rare appearance reuniting with former costarsPatricia RichardsonandTaran Noah Smith.
Richardson, who played mom Jill Taylor, shared a glimpse into the sweet reunion with Thomas, who played Randy, and Smith, who played Mark. Alongside the photo of the trip, Richardson—who is a real-life mom of three—mused in the July 29 Instagram post, “My other boys.”
In the photo, Thomas is all smiles, sporting his now-signature thick-rimmed glasses and a black shirt. The 44-year-old’s once famously dirty blonde appears to be a darker brown as he squeezed in alongside Richardson and Smith.
Thomas’ rare outing comes just over a month afterTim Allen—who played Tim Taylor on the beloved 1990s sitcom—shared an update on why the cast has never reunited for an on-screen special.
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“They keep talking about how it could move forward, but they get stuck [because] there are some personality problems right now with the boys,” Allen told US Weekly in June. “They’ve got their own issues. I always thought it would be cool if it was a story about them. That’s a little challenging right now, to put it mildly.”
Indeed, Taylor sons Thomas and Smith have all but stepped back from acting, while the fellow cast member Zachary Ty Bryan, who played eldest brother Brad, has faced several rounds of legal troubles since the series ended in 1999
But even if all the stars were to align on a possible reboot project, Thomas is busy carving out a new chapter in his life after leaving Hollywood over 10 years ago.
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“I’d been going nonstop since I was 8 years old,” Thomas toldPeople in 2013. “I never took the fame too seriously. It was a great period in my life, but it doesn’t define me. When I think back on the time, I look at it with a wink. I focus on the good moments I had, not that I was on a lot of magazine covers.”
Indeed, when considering taking a step back from the limelight, Thomas assured he has “no regrets.
“I watch a lot of movies,” he explained of how he spends his private time. “I hike, I stay up on shows and theater.”
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He left Home Improvement in 1998 (Randy went to Costa Rica) to focus on school, but kept acting on his list of extracurriculars.
He had a recurring role on 8 Simple Rules in 2004 and in 2013 reunited with TV dad Tim Allen to direct (and appear in ) several episodes of Last Man Standing.
But though JTT backed away from the spotlight to live his life, which included graduating from Columbia in 2010, Thomas doesn’t need to be onscreen to cause a splash: On the rare occasions the paparazzi snap him, the sightings go viral.
In 2017, Lipnicki opened up on Instagram about the bullying he experienced in middle school, hoping that sharing his experience could lend some comfort to others.
He was “made fun of relentlessly” by some kids who then, down the road, must have forgotten their bad behavior and tried to friend him on Facebook. “I was told I was a has-been and would never book a job again,” he recalled. He started having nightly panic attacks, anticipating the next day’s humiliation. Yet he had survived, adding, “I am grateful for the amazing life I have and I hope I can pass on that it DOES get better.”
He’s still in showbiz as an adult, starring in the 2023 Lifetime movie Secrets at the Museum. The L.A. native is also a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and in May 2021 he volunteered to provide additional security outside a mid-city synagogue amid a rise in anti-Semitic vandalism and harassment.
The writer and activist released her memoir Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame in 2016 as well as appeared on Broad City and loaned her voice to the animated shows BoJack Horseman, Big Hero 6: The Series and Helluva Boss.
“Once, someone I’d considered a friend asked, with a big smile, ‘How does it feel to know you’ve peaked?'” Wilson recalled in a February 2021 New York Times op-Ed about the perils of early fame for girls. “I didn’t know how to answer, but now I would say that’s the wrong question. I haven’t peaked, because for me, The Narrative isn’t a story someone else is writing anymore. I can write it myself.”
Soon, he was the nice guy with a crush in 1999’s 10 Things I Hate About You, a hustler in 2004’s Mysterious Skin and the determined teen sleuth trying to find out what happened to his missing ex-girlfriend in the 2005 noir drama Brick.
He could still pass for a teen well into his twenties, but once he started playing adults, his various highlights have included 500 Days of Summer, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Inception, 50/50, The Dark Knight Rises, Looper, Lincoln, Don Jon (which he also wrote and directed) and Snowden. Gordon-Levitt explored more real moments in history as a prosecutor in 2020’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 and he played Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick in the series Super Pumped.
He quietly married Tasha McCauley in 2014 and they share three children.
She won the Best Actress Oscar for her turn as a ballerina who’s losing her mind in 2010’s Black Swan earned another nomination for channeling newly widowed Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie. She made her feature directorial debut with 2015’s A Tale of Love and Darkness, adapted from Amos Oz’s autobiographical novel.
She married her Black Swan choreographer, Benjamin Millepied, in 2012 and they’re parents of son Aleph and daughter Amalia. The duo finalized their divorce in 2024.
Jones later apologized for “showing indifference to and disrespect of my colleagues and a lack of appreciation of the extraordinary opportunity of which I have been blessed.”
The actor soon left the series, but returned for the finale in 2015.
Jones, who earned a reported $350,000 per episode during his final season as a full-time cast member on the CBS sitcom, told Houston TV station KHOU that the show “was making light of topics in our world that are really problems for a lot of people, and I was a paid hypocrite because I wasn’t okay with it, but I was still doing it.”
Until an uncredited 2023 notch on his IMDb from the Max series Bookie, his last acting credit was Louis C.K.’s 2016 limited series Horace & Pete.
Jones attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, living what he called a “normal existence,” he told People in 2016. “I got pretty doomsday with my thinking for a long time, but now I’m having fun and enjoying where I’m at,” he added. “I no longer feel like every step I take is on a land mine.”
More recently, he wrapped up a four-season run on Miracle Workers, played the title entertainer in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story and returned to Broadway in Merrily We Roll Along.
On a personal note, Radcliffe is dad to a son with longtime partner Erin Darke.
The serious student took a break to attend Yale, after which she re-broke through—and won her first Oscar, for Best Supporting Actress—playing a gang-rape victim who presses charges against her attackers, not realizing that she’ll end up on trial in a different way, in 1988’s The Accused. She made her feature directing debut with Little Man Tate in 1991, then won a Best Actress Oscar for her turn as an intrepid FBI trainee in The Silence of the Lambs in 1992.
The actress and filmmaker was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for life achievement at the 2013 Golden Globes and in the last few years has done more directing for TV, helming episodes of House of Cards, Black Mirror and Orange Is the New Black. Her major big-screen credits in the 21st century include Panic Room, Inside Man, Elysium, Hotel Artemis and The Mauritanian, which earned her a surprise Golden Globe win in 2021 for supporting actress.
In real life, she’s a mother of two sons with ex-partner Cydney Bernard, and she married photographer and director Alexandra Hedison in 2014.
“I remember her thinking there wasn’t a chance I’d continue being an actor,” Stewart said of Foster, talking to Stellar magazine in 2019. That, of course, had nothing to do with her talent, and everything to do with her very non-showboating personality. Stewart added, “I really love my job, but I understand why she would have thought that about me as a kid. I love her.”
The actress and Chanel muse hasn’t had trouble finding work since concluding the five-film Twilight saga, but other than the 2019 stab at reviving the Charlie’s Angels franchise, she has preferred taking on more intimate films, including The Clouds of Sils Maria, for which she became the first American actress to win a Cesar Award (France’s equivalent of the Oscars), the eerie drama Personal Shopper and the not-quite-biopics Seberg and Spencer.
After her much-chronicled relationship with Robert Pattinson ended, Stewart primarily dated women, and she married Dylan Meyer in 2025.
Brolin went on to do a few (dozen) movies, including Flirting With Disaster, Mimic, No Country for Old Men (which won the Best Picture Oscar and reinvigorated his career), American Gangster, W. (playing 43rd President George W. Bush), Milk (he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as Dan White, the San Francisco councilman who killed city official and gay rights activist Harvey Milk), Jonah Hex, True Grit, Sicario, Deadpool 2 and, of course, Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, cloaked in CGI as super-villain Thanos, and the sci-fi epic Dune (parts one and the upcoming two).
Brolin has two children from his first marriage, to Alice Adair, after which he was married to Diane Lane from 2004 until 2013. He and wife Kathryn Boyd, whom he married in 2016, welcomed daughter Westlyn Reign Brolin in 2018 and another daughter, Chapel Grace Brolin, in December 2020.
More classic 1990s moments were made with Casper and Now and Then before Ricci embarked on a career peppered with complicated characters in films such as The Opposite of Sex, Buffalo ’66, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Sleepy Hollow, Prozac Nation, Pumpkin and Monster, in which she played the girlfriend of serial killer Aileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron, in her Oscar-winning role).
Whatever Ricci has been up to for the past 30 years, almost all of it has been adventurous, whether it’s playing a glamorous ’60s-era flight attendant in the short-lived Pan Am or being chained to a radiator in Black Snake Moan, or taking on fascinating real-life women, such as ax murderer Lizzie Borden in The Lizzie Borden Chronicles, author and literary muse Zelda Fitzgerald in Z: The Beginning of Everything.
Ricci is mom to son Freddie with ex-husband James Heerdegen and daughter Cleopatra with husband Mark Hampton.
In December 2021, the Yellowjackets star welcomed daughter Cleopatra with hairdresser Mark Hampton, whom she married that October.
After providing his voice to Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken and playing a barista version of himself on The Jim Gaffigan Show, and presuming all the pandemic protocol gets sorted out, Culkin will be joining the 10th season of American Horror Story, due to premiere in 2021.
The actor is engaged to Brenda Song and they share two sons, Dakota Song Culkin (named after Culkin’s older sister Dakota, who died in a car accident in 2008) and Carson, who made his public debut at his dad’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony on Dec. 1, 2023 when he was 12 months old.
After growing up onscreen in the likes of Father of the Bride, She’s All That, Igby Goes Down and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, he shed all trappings of adolescent stardom with his Emmy-winning turn as acerbic media empire scion Roman Roy on Succession.
Kieran reached new heights in 2025, scooping up awards on his way to winning the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for A Real Pain.
Behind the scenes, he and wife Jazz Charton share three children: daughter Kinsey Sioux, son Wilder Wolf and their new addition, whose arrival was confirmed in September 2025 by Kieran’s Succession sister Sarah Snook.
She’s actually just been working her tail off for more than 20 years, turning in memorable performances in Uptown Girls, Man on Fire, Hide and Seek, War of the Worlds, Charlotte’s Web, The Secret Life of Bees, three Twilight movies, American Pastoral and Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, playing real-life Charles Manson acolyte Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme.
In addition to starring in The Nightingale with little sister Elle Fanning, she earned a Golden Globe nomination in 2025 for her performance as Marge Sherwood in the Netflix miniseries Ripley.
Elle amassed the usual roles as the child of the grown-up stars in various films (Daddy Day Care, The Door in the Floor, Babel, Reservation Road) and guest-starred on multiple CSI franchises, Criminal Minds, House, Law & Order: SVU and more stuff she was probably still too young to watch when she was in it. But as a teen and into her twenties, her movie work continued to span genres, from family fare (We Bought a Zoo, Maleficent) and YA (Super 8, Twixt) to prestige dramas (Trumbo, 20th Century Women) and disturbing fantasias (The Neon Demon, The Beguiled).
Along the way, she’s also played Mary Shelley in a film of the same name and Catherine the Great on the Hulu satire The Great.
But, after a bit of a noticeable-role drought, Duff has excelled once again in Younger, playing the more-layered-than-meets-the-eye colleague of Sutton Foster’s 40-year-old posing as a millennial in the critically acclaimed TV Land series, which is due to return for a seventh season. And though the prospect of a spin-off centered on Duff’s Younger character Kelsey is exciting, O.G. fans really couldn’t wait to see her return as Lizzie, though, in a reboot planned for Disney+. Unfortunately, the revival of the beloved series was shelved.
She has since starred in two seasons of How I Met Your Father.
Duff and hockey player Mike Comrie, the father of her son, Luca Comrie, separated in 2014 after about four years of marriage and eventually divorced. She and songwriter Matthew Koma welcomed daughter Banks Violet Bair in 2018 and got married in 2019. In 2021, they welcomed another baby girl, Mae James Bair and daughter Townes Meadow Bair completed their family in May 2024.
She has starred in a parade of TV movies, some with major messages to send, such as 1996’s No One Would Tell, based on the true story of a high school student who was murdered by her 16-year-old boyfriend after she silently suffered his abuse for months. (Yes, we’re still haunted.)
But more recently, after spending two seasons as a co-host on The View, and in addition to reuniting with almost the whole Tanner family for five seasons of Fuller House on Netflix, Candace has become queen of the Hallmark Channel Christmas lineup, as well as the star of the network’s Aurora Teagarden murder-mystery franchise, based on the books by Charlaine Harris.
In 2021 she celebrated 25 years of marriage to former NHL player Valeri Bure, with whom she has three children.
Three marriages between 2002 and 2016 also added to the headline fodder, as did her brief engagement to Justin Hodak, who, among his various issues, ended up violating a restraining order she had in place against him and in 2019 was sentenced to more than six years in prison for possession of a deadly weapon and falsifying evidence.
Sober since 2008, the mother of daughters Zoie and Beatrix rejoined the Tanner family for five seasons of Fuller House on Netflix and has starred in several Hallmark Channel movies, including 2019’s Christmas-themed Merry and Bright and the romantic comedy Just Swipe.
While Mary-Kate continued to act past 2004’s New York Minute, joining the cast of Weeds for a season and appearing in the films The Wackness and Beastly, Ashley largely left it behind—and now both are merely fashion industry superstars as the co-founders of CFDA Award-winning The Row and Elizabeth & James.
Ashley quietly welcomed her first child with husband Louis Eisner in 2023. Mary-Kate married Olivier Sarkozy in 2015 and filed for divorce in 2020.
He still kinda looked like a kid in Titanic, but at 22 he had reached full-on heartthrob status.
Over the past decade, DiCaprio has starred in films such as Inception, The Wolf of Wall Street, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, The Revenant (winning his first Best Actor Oscar) and Killers of the Flower Moon.
Moving beyond her auspicious start as Hermione Granger in eight Harry Potter films, the English actress tackled YA fare such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Bling Ring, co-starred with Tom Hanks in The Circle, took on the lead as Belle in the live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast and played Meg March in Little Women. She’s also dedicated her platform as a UN Goodwill Ambassador to empowering women and advocating for gender equality around the world.In addition, Watson has modeled for brands like Prada and Burberry, launched a gin company with her brother Alex Watson and enrolled in a creative writing program at Oxford.
But though he had a dry spell while he unwound from overdoing it as a youngster adrift in Hollywood, he did tons of theater, including three Broadway shows, and the right TV role eventually presented itself in the form of genial playboy Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother, for which he earned four Emmy nominations. In 2010 alone he was nominated for three Emmys and won two, for co-producing the 2009 Tonys and guest-starring on Glee.
The quadruple-threat—acting, singing, dancing, magic!—entertainer has now hosted the Tonys four times (winning the Emmy for special class programing as a producer every time), as well as the Emmys twice and the Oscars once, in 2015. He also won a Tony in 2014 for Best Actor in a Musical as the star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Harris and longtime partner David Burtka welcomed twins Gideon and Harper via surrogacy in 2010 and tied the knot in 2014.
Her TV work in the ensuing years after her show ended in 2007 included American Dad, Nashville, State of Georgia, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Master of None and Drunk History, and she had a recurring role on Black-ish. Raven-Symoné also spent three seasons as a co-host on The View and, in June 2020, she married Miranda Maday.
