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Alfonso Ribeiro Reveals A ‘Fresh Prince’ Reboot Can’t Happen Without James Avery: ‘Uncle Phil Was The Core’

This is a story about how a ‘Crisp Prince’ reboot may never occur. Alfonso Ribeiro reveals to TMC why.

As dearest, once-dropped shows keep on getting rebooted, Alfonso Ribeiro addressed the majority of our inquiries concerning the likelihood of a Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air recovery. “I’ve kept on saying, and I will say this most likely everlastingly, is there’s simply no genuine reboot of that show without James Avery,” the entertainer, who once played Carlton in the NBC sitcom, uncovered on the TheMagazineCity Podcast in an EXCLUSIVE meeting. “Despite the fact that it’s The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and Will [Smith] is the star, the center of the show was Uncle Phil.”

James Avery, whose Phillip Banks was positioned in TV Guide’s “50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time,” kicked the bucket in 2013 after entanglements during open heart medical procedure. He was 68 at the time. Will Smith remarked on his demise at the time, saying, “A portion of my most prominent exercises in acting, living and being a decent individual came through James Avery. Each young fellow needs an Uncle Phil. Rest in Peace.”

Notwithstanding missing “the center of the show,” James Avery, Alfonso included, “we quit doing it since we felt like the show couldn’t be better when we were doing it.” “The idea driving the show is about Will moving to Bel-Air to transform him. Well we finished it, and his life was changed. Where does it go?” he clarified. “I think we recounted to the tales we expected to tell, I believe it’s a great opportunity to end this. So it’s sort of difficult to go, ‘we should make another.’ You can’t redo The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air.”

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Alfonso is never saying never, however, and conceded he’s available to different ideas that could work concerning the show, yet Will’s story was done back when the arrangement finished in 1996.

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