Joining Allen will be\u00a0Richard Karn, 69, who played his sidekick and co-host Al Borland, and\u00a0Patricia Richardson, who played his wife Jill.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They will also be joined by ‘Tool Time girl’\u00a0Debbe Dunning, now 59.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Richardson, now 74, is almost unrecognizable today compared to her time on the hit sitcom thanks to one major change.<\/p>\n
Instead of her signature shoulder length brown hair and bangs, the actress now sports a luxurious white mane.<\/p>\n
Fans online have praised Patricia’s current look, with one gushing on social media, ‘She looks so amazing!’<\/p>\n
Another wrote, ‘Patricia you are just a beautiful as you were when you did Home Improvement.’<\/p>\n
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Key cast members from Home Improvement will reunite with leading man Tim Allen for an upcoming episode of his current series, Shifting Gears<\/p>\n
A third exclaimed, ‘Is this Jill Taylor? She looks so hot silver!’<\/p>\n
The actress will join her former co-stars for the season two premiere of Allen’s Shifting Gears, which will premiere on October 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The reunion comes after Richardson was forced to shut down rumors that Home Improvement was headed for a full blown reboot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Last year, the 73-year-old star said she had no interest in reprising her Emmy-nominated role, additionally accusing Allen of outright ‘lying to people’ regarding the possibility of a revival during her appearance on the Back to the Best podcast.<\/p>\n
‘It was so weird, I would hear on Twitter or whatever that [Allen] was coming out publicly and saying this stuff about how everyone was on board to do a Home Improvement reunion,’ she recalled.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘But he never asked me, and he never asked Jonathan [Taylor Thomas, who played middle child Randy]’ she continued.<\/p>\n
‘I called Jonathan one day, I said, “Has he asked you about this?” And he went, “No,” and I was like why is he going around telling everybody that we’re all on board when he hasn’t talked to you or me. I think that’s weird.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
As for a rumor of a separate reboot featuring Jill Taylor as the main character, Richardson shot that down as well, saying Allen was ‘lying to people and telling them that I was on board and I didn’t know anything about it.’<\/p>\n
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Patricia Richardson, who played Tim Allen’s wife Jill on the show, will be part of the Shifting Gears episode<\/p>\n
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Instead of her signature shoulder length brown hair and bangs, the actress now sports a luxurious white mane<\/p>\n
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The veteran actress donned a stylish pair of spectacles at an event in 2023<\/p>\n
She added: ‘I wrote a big thing on Twitter and said I’m not involved in any series with Jill and I’ve also never been asked to do another Home Improvement reunion thing \u2014 but I would not want to.’<\/p>\n
Richardson then broke down why she thought a new version of the sitcom, which ran for eight seasons from 1991 to 1999, would not work today.<\/p>\n