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Taran Noah Smith was one of them, playing the adorable youngest brother Mark for most of his childhood.
It definitely worked out well, considering that “Home Improvement” made Smith a full-on child star.
It’s not because I didn’t like it."
Smith didn’t completely leave show business right when “Home Improvement” wrapped.
Smith told the Marin Independent Journal that his parents weren’t too happy about his new romance.
“They tried to push her out of my life.
But that never works with a teenager in love,” he said.
Smith and Van Pelt claimed that they were in love and that the age difference didn’t matter.
However, she did admit to People that her friends did initially tease her about Smith’s age.
“Most of them thought he was a lot older,” she said.
He even accused them of forcing him to continue acting so they could live off him.
They eventually became estranged, which was apparently what Smith wanted.
The business eventually shuttered, however, when the two got divorced.
Smith was also interested in making art.
For him, it was a way to stay in the creative field outside of acting.
“Usually I like to build real art pieces that people can explore,” he said.
He told HNGN that it was a nod to his family’s history of building and living on boats.
What made matters worse for Smith was that his house was foreclosed on, then completely trashed.
“At the end of that, I realized I had made a mistake,” he said.
Officers then smelled marijuana and discovered him to be under the influence.
Of course, Smith was only in possession of marijuana, which is now legal in many states.
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Before that, Smith worked with water in a different way as an engineer.
He teamed up with his father to build environmentally-friendly water purifiers that were then used by the military.
Bennici also seemingly blamed Smith’s ex-wife, Heidi Van Pelt, by suggesting that she preyed on him.
“I apologized to them, and they were very forgiving and apologized, too,” he said.
He seemed to have enjoyed it too, comparing it to a “high school reunion.”
“What I’d love to see is those boys grown up what they’re doing grown up.
I think that’d be an amazing piece of television,” Allen toldE!
