Can you believe ‘Home Improvement’ did not end because of pay disparity, even though it’s been going on for years that Patricia Richardson co-starred alongside Tim Allen?
While Richardson, at the time, wanted to make it seem as though she ran because she wasn’t being offered a good deal, no amount of money in the world, per her own words, would have made her film another season for ABC. Why? She’s finally opening up about the reason she left the hit show.
Patricia Richardson Didn’t Want To Return For Another Season of ‘Home Improvement’ For This Reason
When the time came for Richardson to exit the sitcom, she found a way to rub it in Disney’s face as well and requested for everything Disney had denied her through the years.
While there’s no amount of cash that would have saved ‘Home Improvement,’ she used money as a tactic to get out of having to be pressured to return for another season.
Even though she appeared alongside Tim Allen as family patriarch Jill Taylor on the hit sitcom, she still didn’t make as much as him or receive the offers he did.
“I told everybody, ‘There’s not enough money in the world to get me to do a ninth year,’” she recalled in a chat with Los Angeles Times, “This show is over. It needs to end.”
Just months before the eight season was due to end, Richardson recalled receiving an offer of $1 million to return for a 25-episode ninth season, while Allen was offered twice the amount. She claimed that Allen was onboard with the deal, but she balked due to issues happening in her personal life then.
