Former Mom on ‘Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ Claims Will Smith Sabotaged Her Career
The long running bad blood between Will Smith and actress Janet Hubert continues to flow without a clot in sight. Janet Hubert is best *as in ONLY* known as the original Aunt Vivian on the sitcom, ‘Fresh Prince of Bel Air.’
The 53-year-old actress was fired from the show in 1993 and replaced by actress Daphne Maxwell Reid. Now in a memoir, ‘Perfection Is Not A Sitcom Mom’ that is slated to be released early in 2010 she is basically calling Will Smith a bitch ass who didn’t like to share the spotlight. According to Hubert, Will did everything in his power to ensure that he and only him received media attention. Even going as far as having castmates banned from doing The Tonight Show during the early days of the 30-minute NBC comedy.
Here’s an excerpt sent to BV Buzz:
“Smith had people around him who made sure no one outshone him. I was happy to see Don Cheadle become the quality actor that he is, and often wondered how he made it past one episode, as Hilary’s boyfriend, being such a fierce actor. No one could be on ‘The Tonight Show,’ that first season, except Will. And I mean no one.”
“I recall the lovely and incredibly talented Countess Vaughn coming to guest star. Oh my God! The day of table read, she was pee-in-your-pants funny. The writers were howling, we were howling, so I knew she was history – banished into the cornfield. Many years later, after she had her own show, I had to tell her when she asked me why. ‘Miss Janet why did I get cut from the episode,’ she asked? Simply, my darling, you were too good,” she recollected.
Will is not the least bit surprised, claiming he will be forever be the Anti-Christ as far Hubert is concerned:
“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 … 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 Anti-Christ.”
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