{"id":160503,"date":"2025-08-20T07:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/160503\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:23:11","slug":"former-home-improvement-star-patricia-richardson-looks-unrecognizable-ahead-of-reunion-with-castmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/160503\/","title":{"rendered":"Former &#8216;Home Improvement&#8217; star Patricia Richardson looks unrecognizable ahead of reunion with castmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former sitcom star might have fans doing a double-take when she reunites with her ex-castmates on the small screen this fall. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHome Improvement\u201d actress Patricia Richardson looks nearly unrecognizable since she portrayed Jill Taylor on the popular ABC sitcom starring Tim Allen throughout most of the \u201890s.<\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old no longer has a chestnut brown bob, like the one she flaunted during the seven-time Emmy Award-winning show that followed the work and family life of Tim \u201cThe Tool Man\u201d Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia Richardson started growing her hair out during the COVID-19 pandemic. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Richardson now rocks a head of shock white hair, which she started growing out during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOk here we have covid hair grow out,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CGVkhVUJyIF\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=0991c509-4de1-44de-9e6c-be2100c37f52\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she captioned in an Instagram <\/a>post showing the stark difference between her dyed hair and white roots in Oct. 2020. \u201cJust don\u2019t want to cut it! So\u2026. new covid fashion raccoon hair?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fans flooded her comment section, cheering on her \u201cbeautiful\u201d and natural style which she seemingly kept over recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Richardson flaunted her white hair during a 2021 episode of \u201cNCIS\u201d and also showed off her mane on the red carpet for the premiere of \u201cChantilly Bridge\u201d in March 2023 and during a SAG-AFTRA event in Los Angeles in December 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Richardson will soon reunite with her former \u201cHome Improvement\u201d husband and some of her former co-stars during the Season 2 premiere of Allen\u2019s current ABC show, \u201cShifting Gears,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/home-improvement-reunion-shifting-gears-season-2-premiere-1236491529\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a report by Deadline.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Richardson flaunted a chestnut brown bob when she was on \u201cHome Improvement.\u201d Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Richardson showcased her white hair in an episode of \u201cNCIS\u201d in 2021. CBS via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorlds are colliding,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNit3qzRt4R\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the show confirmed<\/a> on its official Instagram page. \u201cSee Shifting Gears x Home Improvement on the October 1 season premiere!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reunion comes over 25 years after \u201cHome Improvement\u201d ended in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Karn, known for playing Al Borland in \u201cHome Improvement,\u201d and Debbe Dunning, who portrayed \u201cTool Time Girl\u201d Heidi Keppert in the \u201890s show, will appear alongside Richardson in Allen\u2019s show about a widowed owner of a car restoration shop, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not been revealed which fictional roles the trio of guest stars will play in the upcoming premiere but the cast is supposed to help Allen\u2019s fictional character, Matt Parker, in an \u201cunexpected way,\u201d per Deadline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHome Improvement\u201d ran for eight seasons on ABC in the \u201990s. \u00a9Touchstone Television\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>The Season 2 premiere of \u201cShifting Gears\u201d won\u2019t be the first time Richardson has reunited with Allen, 72, on television.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time Emmy Award-nominee appeared as Helen Potts, an inconsiderate neighbor, in two episodes of his \u201cLast Man Standing\u201d series in 2015 and 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Richardson has maintained her career since \u201cHome Improvement\u201d ended. She portrayed Dr. Andy Campbell in dozens of episodes of \u201cStrong Medicine,\u201d political strategist Sheila Brooks in \u201cThe West Wing\u201d and had a series of guest star roles on shows like \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy,\u201d \u201cNCIS\u201d and \u201cThe Blacklist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former sitcom star might have fans doing a double-take when she reunites with her ex-castmates on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":160504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[93079,8811,7824,171,14820,71911,77297,71910,12259,93080,24595,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-160503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-90s","9":"tag-abc","10":"tag-coronavirus","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-greys-anatomy","13":"tag-home-improvement","14":"tag-ncis","15":"tag-patricia-richardson","16":"tag-sitcoms","17":"tag-the-blacklist","18":"tag-tim-allen","19":"tag-tv","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115059897390077372","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}