Will Smith Teases Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Reunion — With OG Aunt Viv, Janet Hubert – TooFab

The “Unusual Prince of Bel-Air” is celebrating 30 years since its premiere with an unscripted particular scheduled for round Thanksgiving on HBO Max.

Will Smith shared a watch of the moment with two reunion shots on his Instagram, and the 2nd one undoubtedly got everyone’s attention. In it, Smith can be seen laughing and smiling with dilapidated co-superstar Janet Hubert.

For these now no longer in the know, that is a enormous deal. The fashioned Aunt Viv on the sequence, Hubert famously left the label after three seasons due to her very public loathe of its main man, a loathe she has echoed in the intervening years.

Truly, as recently as 2011, Hubert told TMZ that she would never participate in a reunion “as I will never discontinue something with an a–gap love Will Smith,” calling him an “egomaniac” who “has now no longer grown up.”

“This … reunion component will never happen in my lifetime except there is an apology,” she said. “Which he doesn’t know the note.” May perchance presumably an apology be fragment of their dialog?

The first image featured Smith, Tatyana Ali, Alfonso Ribeiro, Karyn Parsons, Joseph Marcell, Daphne Maxwell Reid (the 2nd Aunt Viv) and even DJ Jazzy Jeff.

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“This day is strictly 30 YEARS since The @FreshPrince of Bel-Air debuted! So we’re doin’ something for y’all… a for proper Banks Family Reunion is comin’ soon to @HBOmax!” Smith captioned his put up, in conjunction with a tribute to the gradual James Avery, who performed his Uncle Phil.

That reunion is an unscripted particular for the label’s anniversary slated for the streamer by Thanksgiving. While it is miles no longer yet optimistic how the reunion will be structured, despite the incontrovertible truth that Carve-off date describes it as “an night time of song, dancing and surprise guests,” it looks love now no longer now no longer as much as fans will internet to peek Smith and Hubert confidently talk things out.

On the time of her departure, Smith suggested that ego was as soon as a component, joking in interviews that she wished it to be the “Aunt Viv of Bel-Air” label. She has insisted that merely wasn’t factual, insisting she was as soon as continuously a authentic on the space.

In 2016, as coated then by Us Weekly, Hubert said that as a minimum fragment of the project was as soon as that Smith was as soon as now no longer intelligent to assist the leisure of the solid fight for added of their contract negotiations, purportedly telling them, “My deal is my deal, and y’alls deal is y’alls deal.”

She told “The Right” that very same year that as recently as 2009 she was as soon as asking Smith, thru his manager, to as a minimum be accurate about her behavior on space after he is smeared her in the clicking all these years prior to now.

Confidently, this dialog between the two can also moreover be therapeutic as Hubert was as soon as a extensive fragment of the success of the label. No doubt fans were thrilled to peek her represented, getting “Aunt Viv” trending on Twitter of their pleasure.

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