4. Jo Marie Payton Today
As it turned out, it was neither Urkel nor her contract that pulled Payton off the set of Family Matters. She was so eager to start other projects that she left to pursue them, according to her. “The way I explain it is that, when you’re a baker, you don’t always want to bake cakes or cookies,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “You want to bake pies, you want to bake bread. I wanted to do something else.” She did well for herself after Family Matters, appearing on shows like 7th Heaven, Will & Grace, Judging Amy, Girlfriends, Reba, Desperate Housewives, and Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns. This image is from lifetime’s The Flight Before Christmas, where the two stars from Family Matters reunited in 2015.