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TIL that Janet Hubert, the original Aunt Viv from "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air", wasn't fired from the show. Instead, she declined a new contract that would have prevented her from taking other acting jobs, believing it was an attempt to "put her in her place" due to existing friction on the set.

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