Hubert, best known as “the original Aunt Viv,” left the sitcom after the first three seasons over “creative differences.” She was promptly replaced by actress Daphne Maxwell Reid the following season without any mention of the recasting.

He has an elder sister named Pamela and two younger siblings, twins Harry and Ellen. Smith attended Our Lady of Lourdes, a private Catholic elementary school in Philadelphia. Smith attended Overbrook High School.

Smith starred on the show from 1990 to 1996, and he developed close relationships with his co-stars outside of filming. Today, he and Alfonso Ribeiro (Carlton) still have the sweetest friendship.

“And I wasn’t unprofessional on the set. I just stopped talking to everybody because I didn’t know who to trust because I had been banished. And they said it was you who banished me. Because you were Will,” Hubert said.

During the third season of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (her last on the show), Janet Hubert was pregnant, a development that was written into the show. They offered me this really bad deal in the third season. They said, ‘You’ve got two months and two weeks of work, and you cannot work anywhere else.

Banks family matriarch Aunt Viv was originally played by Janet Hubert, but she was replaced by Daphne Maxwell Reid after the show’s third season in 1993, and reports of a feud between Hubert and Smith have circulated over the 27 years since.

Vivian gives birth to a baby boy named Nicholas Andrew Banks though the family argues on different names such as Eli and Rufus as the doctor takes their photo.

Hubert went so far as to sue Smith and NBC that same year for defamation, invasion of privacy, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Her suit alleged that Smith became hostile after she got pregnant and lobbied NBC to reduce her salary and screen-time, per the Chicago Tribune.