The ’90s are coming to HGTV, and Millennials are screaming as if they are at a New Kids on the Block concert.
Family Matters’ Jaleel White is hosting Totally ’90s House. Two teams of ’90s celebrities are competing to renovate houses that are stuck in the time that their shows aired.
It will be Brian Austin Green (Beverly Hills, 90210), Beverley Mitchell (7th Heaven) and Jodie Sweetin (Full House) versus Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina the Teenage Witch), Matthew Lawrence (Boy Meets World), and Keshia Knight Pulliam (The Cosby Show) with help from Matthew’s brother Joey Lawrence (Blossom).
“Everybody loves the ’90s again,” said host Jaleel White. “The fits are back, the playlists are on repeat, and kids who weren’t even born yet are binge-watching the shows we made famous. But while some things from the ’90s are timeless…some of y’all never got the memo that the decade ended. We asked America to show us the homes still living in the past, and the response was incredible. Now it’s time for the ultimate throwback transformation. Get ready for the biggest ’90s house battle ever.”
The winning team gets to donate $25,000 to their charity of their choice.
There was a time when everyone was saying yes to doing reboots of the sitcoms. However, there was one actor who said no. That actor was Jaleel White.
When he was on Andy Cohen’s radio show on Tuesday, he explained why. “I embrace the TGIF legacy, but I’m also careful to acknowledge that TGIF was a sinking ship, and you cannot make shows like that right now,” He said. “Fuller House, I feel like got away with it because they have a schmaltzy, kind of vanilla thing that they do that’s very Hallmarkish, to be quite honest, and it benefits Candace [Cameron], And that’s wonderful. But I just didn’t feel like we could get away with that same brand of humor.”
Urkel then added he was not given a script and half the money he got when the sitcom ended in 1998.
“If it’s just a cash grab…I’m not interested in that,” he added. “If I touch anything that’s associated with Family Matters, I want to advance the legacy and I want to help the kids’ careers.”
Jaleel White had a busy weekend. On May 4th, he married his longtime love Nicoletta Ruhl at the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles in front of 175 people who are dear to them.
“It was important for all of the people that carry an impact on our daily lives to be present and for each and every one of them to enjoy themselves and feel as though they were part of something intimate and meaningful,” the bride told People.
Urkel met the tech executive during the pandemic while working out on the UCLA track. After a few years of dating, he finally proposed last month and wasted no time in making their love official.
This is the actor’s first marriage, and he has a daughter, Samaya, 14, with ex-girlfriend Bridget Hardy.
Christmas is coming early on November 21st because Urkel is getting an animated holiday musical movie, Urkel Saves Santa: The Movie. And it has Jaleel White reprising his infamous role.
The holiday season is here, and brilliant but accident-prone super genius Steve Urkel has only one mission: to make the holidays the best they can be for everyone! However, things are off to a not so merry start after he ruins a celebration at his local shopping mall and humiliates the department store Santa. Hoping to make things right, Steve invents a device that helps people spread holiday cheer but it only manages to make things worse. Using his big brain and even bigger heart, it’s up to Steve to help the city rediscover the holiday spirit.
I was going to say we should take a hit of Purple Urkel every time he says, “Did I do that,” but it looks like it has been discontinued.
A few years ago, a fan came up with a dramatic version of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air on social media, and now his dream became a reality on Peacock.
Well, Saturday Night Live thought they would have some fun and get serious with Family Matters. It might have been a joke, but you never know. Urkel could become a reality. I mean, we did get big screen versions of Wayne’s World, MacGruber, and Coneheads. Why couldn’t Lorne Michaels do that? And if he did, would you watch?
Then I started to wonder what other show they could do. I thought Perfect Strangers could be fun. But then I pictured Cousin Larry calling ICE on Balki, and that was the end of that.
