AUNT VIV TELLS ALL ABOUT THE FRESH PRINCE & HIS BEL AIR

Actress Janet Hubert is best known as the original Aunt Vivian on the sitcom, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

Hubert was fired from the show in 1993 and recently has written a memoir called Perfection Is Not A Sitcom Mom that is slated to be released early in 2010.

The book should be really juicy because some excerpts have been leaked all over the net and it has her talking shit about Will Smith, calling him an attention hog and how he sabotaged her and other talented actors who've worked on the show!

In one excerpt from the tome, given to BV Buzz exclusively, Hubert writes:

"Smith had people around him who made sure no one outshone him. I was happy to see Don Cheadle become the quality actor that he is, and often wondered how he made it past one episode, as Hilary's boyfriend, being such a fierce actor. No one could be on 'The Tonight Show,' that first season, except Will. And I mean no one."

Janet then mentioned another instance where an actress was discredited from the show because she was too good.

"I recall the lovely and incredibly talented Countess Vaughn coming to guest star. Oh my God! The day of table read, she was pee-in-your-pants funny. The writers were howling, we were howling, so I knew she was history – banished into the cornfield. Many years later, after she had her own show, I had to tell her when she asked me why. 'Miss Janet why did I get cut from the episode,' she asked? Simply, my darling, you were too good."

Aunt Viv also goes into details of her being fired from Bel Air, something she never expected and what she would describe as murder:


"My mind was going in a million places. OK, I thought, they will come back; this is how they do it. They always come back. I started into the kitchen where Rayna – my friend, housekeeper and nanny was. She was doing dishes as baby E was enjoying a swing. I knelt down, kissed his head, and waited for the next round of negotiations. They never came. The next time Michael (her agent) called he said, 'They are going to recast your role.' There was a beautiful stained glass window that I designed in the bedroom, and the windows were open, so my neighbors probably heard me scream. And that beautiful window probably has many cracks in it. Time of Death: approximately 3 pm. The real Vivian Banks was murdered."


I'm with ya Janet. I loved the first Aunt Viv so much more than the replacement! Was Will that scared for his popularity ??? I always wondered why it happened. Now I know. . .