“Did I do that?” Jaleel White is opening up about his time on “Family Matters,” revealing what it was wish to develop up on the set.
The actor performed Steve Urkel on the beloved sitcom from 1989 to 1998. In his forthcoming memoir, “Growing Up Urkel,” White, now 47, claims executives instructed him to put on looser denims to hide his “bulge” on the present, per the US Solar.
Based on him, they requested that he ditch Urkel’s signature tight suspenders and replace his character’s wardrobe to extra family-friendly apparel after Season 8 as he aged. White began the present when he was round 13 and completed when he was 22.
“Let’s get rid of the suspenders. Lower his pants, too,” White alleged executives stated. “Oh and … It’s getting a bit uncomfortable watching him in tight jeans. There’s a, uh … bulge.”
He recalled “peeling” Urkel’s comfortable denims off “like a banana.”
The kid star additionally claimed that the “Family Matters” producers pushed to maintain the sitcom going so long as they may, per the outlet, with White revealing it was “physically painful” for him to talk in Urkel’s high-pitched voice as he grew into a person.
He additionally allegedly shared that he nearly left the household present earlier than its final season in 1998.
White’s geeky character was a blessing and a curse, as he revealed on “The Viall Files” that he “never got invited to any parties” regardless of assembly Sean “Diddy” Combs.
“I constantly say, ‘Rejection is God’s protection.’ I got left off the White Party list; I never really went out of my way to get myself invited to any of those things anyway. That’s the way it is,” White defined on the Oct. 30 episode, mentioning Diddy’s annual social gathering, per Us Weekly.
The embattled rapper was arrested on Sept. 16 on expenses associated to racketeering, intercourse trafficking and extra. Diddy is sitting in a Brooklyn detention middle awaiting his trial scheduled for Could 5.
White is married to Nicoletta Ruhl, whom he wed in Could 2024. He shares a 15-year-old daughter named Samaya along with his ex Bridget Hardy.
“Growing Up Urkel” is out on Nov. 19, and White expressed pleasure about its launch.
“I can’t tell you all just how excited I am to share these ’90s and early 2000 stories with you readers,” he wrote by way of Instagram in Oct.
“The peaks and valleys of growing up playing that character were wild and I met everyone imaginable along the journey. You will be so surprised who I crossed paths with and how. This is my story, thanks for hearing me out.”
