{"id":332200,"date":"2025-12-08T10:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/332200\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T10:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:49:07","slug":"kaitlyn-dever-surprises-tim-allen-in-last-man-standing-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/332200\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaitlyn Dever Surprises Tim Allen In &#8216;Last Man Standing&#8217; Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn a heartwarming moment caught in front of the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/shifting-gears\/\" id=\"auto-tag_shifting-gears\" data-tag=\"shifting-gears\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shifting Gears<\/a> live studio audience, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/kaitlyn-dever\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kaitlyn-dever\" data-tag=\"kaitlyn-dever\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaitlyn Dever<\/a> surprised her <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/last-man-standing\/\" id=\"auto-tag_last-man-standing\" data-tag=\"last-man-standing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Last Man Standing<\/a> on-screen father <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tim-allen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tim-allen\" data-tag=\"tim-allen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Allen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAn Instagram video posted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/abc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_abc\" data-tag=\"abc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a> show\u2019s account showed Allen walking around the corner into the kitchen to meet his next mark while filming a take, only to catch Dever scouring the fridge. The Toy Story alum doubled over in laughter and surprise, as viewers erupted in cheers, and the former co-stars shared an embrace. Also present was Allen\u2019s Shifting Gears daughter Riley, portrayed by Kat Dennings, who celebrated the reunion nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBefore The Last of Us, Dopesick and two Emmy nominations, Dever played one of Allen\u2019s three daughters on the four-time Emmy-nominated sitcom, about blue-collar married man Mike Baxter who is trying to retain his masculine identity in a household dominated by women. He finds escape in his role as an executive at a Denver-based chain sporting goods store, and via his vlog, which he uses as a pulpit for his political opinions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn addition to Dever and Allen, the series starred Hector Elizondo, Nancy Travis, Amanda Fuller, Molly Ephraim and Christoph Sanders. Last Man Standing was initially <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2017\/05\/last-man-standing-canceled-by-abc-after-6-seasons-1202089263\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">canceled by ABC after six seasons<\/a>, despite strong ratings and its Heartland appeal, especially in the wake of President Donald Trump\u2019s first term (the central character is a political conservative and devout Christian). Fox rescued the show, which ultimately ran for a total of 9 seasons from 2011 through 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShifting Gears,\u00a0which received additional episodes in its second season and ranked No. 5 among ABC\u2019s scripted series last year, follows a single mother (Dennings) who moves back in with her estranged father (Allen), the owner of an auto restoration shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a heartwarming moment caught in front of the Shifting Gears live studio audience, Kaitlyn Dever surprised her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2086,49,48,361,75,146320,146321,93402,94391],"class_list":{"0":"post-332200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-abc","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-kaitlyn-dever","14":"tag-last-man-standing","15":"tag-shifting-gears","16":"tag-tim-allen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}