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‘Home Improvement’ Co-Star Patricia Richardson Says Pay Disparity With Tim Allen Ended Show


She didn't want to do a ninth season, so she asked for an offer she knew would be turned down.

“I told everybody, ‘There’s not enough money in the world to get me to do a ninth year,'” she said in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times. Allen was willing, but Richardson wanted to spend more time with her family in the wake of her divorce from Ray Baker. Still, she claimed gave her pitch to ABC: pay her the same amount as Allen and give her an executive producer credit on the show.

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