{"id":86762,"date":"2024-10-26T10:12:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T03:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/?p=86762"},"modified":"2024-10-26T10:12:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T03:12:55","slug":"this-teen-heartthrob-deemed-as-gay-basically-vanished-after-home-improvement-well-after-all-these-years-hes-finally-surfaced-again-and-users-say-hes-barely-recogn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/this-teen-heartthrob-deemed-as-gay-basically-vanished-after-home-improvement-well-after-all-these-years-hes-finally-surfaced-again-and-users-say-hes-barely-recogn\/","title":{"rendered":"This teen heartthrob deemed as gay basically vanished after \u201cHome Improvement\u201d Well, after all these years he\u2019s finally surfaced again, and users say he\u2019s barely recognizable\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jonathan Taylor Thomas was at the height of his career when he stepped away from Hollywood, leaving young girls yearning for the teen heartthrob, then known as JTT.\n<div class='\"image-hover-share\"'>\n<div class='\"social-button' social-button--whatsapp js-share-link data-uri='\"whatsapp:\/\/send?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbascodeal.com%2F2024%2F10%2F22%2Fthis-teen-heartthrob-deemed-as-gay-basically-vanished-after-home-improvement-well-after-all-these-years-hes-finally-surfaced-again-and-users-say-hes-barely-recogn%2Ftext=This+teen+heartthrob+deemed+as+gay+basically+vanished+after+%E2%80%9CHome+Improvement%E2%80%9D+Well%2C+after+all+these+years+he%E2%80%99s+finally+surfaced+again%2C+and+users+say+he%E2%80%99s+barely+recognizable%E2%80%A6+%E2%80%9CMy+goodness%2C+he+looks+so+different%E2%80%9D+See+pic+in+comments\"'>\n<p><strong>The\u00a0<em>Home Improvement\u00a0star\u00a0\u2013 who turned 43 on September 8 \u2013\u00a0was last spotted in 2023 and fans who spent their younger years crushing on him, were shocked over his appearance.\n<p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"attachment-yellystandard' size-yellystandard wp-post-image image-hovered image-hover-reset src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/bascodeal.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/10%5C/461979671_832184495737172_6654474825722534747_n-1.jpg%5C%22" sizes='\"auto,' srcset='\"https:\/\/bascodeal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/461979671_832184495737172_6654474825722534747_n-1.jpg' https: alt='\"\"' width='\"394\"' height='\"600\"' title='\"\"'>\n</p><p><strong>Keep reading to learn what happened to the actor who famously voiced Simba in Disney\u2019s 1994 film\u00a0<em>The Lion King!\n<p>After appearing as Greg Brady\u2019s son on the short-lived 1990 TV series\u00a0<em>The Bradys, a spinoff of\u00a0<em>The Brady Bunch, Jonathan Taylor Thomas earned the role on Home Improvement, which starred comedian Tim Allen.\n\n<p><iframe loading='\"lazy\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.facebook.com%5C/plugins%5C/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FHomeImprovement%2Fphotos%2Fa.151064701617906%2F151064704951239%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500%5C%22" width='\"500\"' height='\"498\"' frameborder='\"0\"' scrolling='\"no\"' allowfullscreen='\"allowfullscreen\"' data-mce-fragment='\"1\"' data-origwidth='\"500\"' data-origheight='\"498\"'>\n<p>Only 10 when the show premiered in 1991, Thomas, who played the middle child, spent the next eight years grew up in front of an international audience, reaching a stratospheric level of fame as a teen heartthrob to millions of adoring young girls.\n</p><p>\u201cYou are a part of their life, and there is a lot that is owed them,\u201d he told the New York Times of his rabid popularity. \u201cBut it\u2019s difficult because you want to make everyone happy, but if you try to do that, you\u2019re setting yourself up for failure.\u201d\n</p><p>In 1994, the Pennsylvania-born Thomas, 12, voiced Simba in the hugely successful Disney animated film\u00a0<em>The Lion King, a film that made fans laugh, cry and sing.\n<p>\u201cSimba\u2019s like me,\u201d says Thomas, who used his regular voice to play the little lion in the smash hit. \u201cI just put my natural energy into it. Real curious, fun-loving, always getting into mischief.\u201d\n</p><div id='\"newsner-9117baa5c741222449d43e8d1d68ac17\"' class='\"newsner-9117baa5c741222449d43e8d1d68ac17' newsner-amp_article_inside_content>\n<p><iframe loading='\"lazy\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.facebook.com%5C/plugins%5C/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FEntertainmentTonight%2Fvideos%2F2459006204356806%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=0%5C%22" width='\"560\"' height='\"314\"' frameborder='\"0\"' scrolling='\"no\"' allowfullscreen='\"allowfullscreen\"' data-mce-fragment='\"1\"' data-origwidth='\"560\"' data-origheight='\"314\"'>\n<p>Switching his time between\u00a0<em>The Lion King\u00a0and Randy Taylor on\u00a0<em>Home Improvement, Thomas shares that it was two years of being shuttled back on forth from one set to the next.\n<p>\u201cI had to kind of go, \u2018Oops! Time to be Randy\u2019\u2026\u2019Oops! 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