Patricia Richardson Used Home Improvement Pay Gap to End Series

patricia richardson Opening up about the pay gap between her and herself tim allen On the long-running sitcom Home improvement And how they used it to end the series.

When Richardson, 73, Los Angeles Times For the 25th anniversary of the series finale, he reported that Allen was being offered $2 million per episode to return for the ninth season—double what the studio was paying him.

Richardson said that before the end of the eighth season, he and Allen had agreed that Home improvement The longtime directors had left the series, leaving Allen and Richardson in the awkward position of having to explain their established characters to newcomers. Allen told friends, “There isn’t enough money in the world to make me do a ninth year. The show is over. It must end.” According to Richardson, Allen agreed, until he saw Disney’s extension offer.

Richardson felt cheated and used Allen’s approval to end the series. He asked for the same offer, knowing full well he would be rejected.

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“I knew Disney would not pay me that much no matter what. This was my way of saying ‘no’ and being a little bit flippant towards Disney,” she said. “I had been there for so long, and they didn’t even pay me a third of what Tim was making, and I was working my hardest. I was a big reason women were looking at me.”

Richardson said there was tension on set at the end of the final season. The two leads were reportedly angry at each other: Allen over Richardson’s refusal to return, Richardson over Allen’s abandonment of him.

“I was angry at Tim because he was the one leaving me alone and being the only one to say no, which made me feel really bad and I felt like the bad guy,” she said. “He was angry at me for leaving.”

Allen’s representatives declined to comment when contacted. our weekly,

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