Because the ’90s ended and the 2000s marched on, Jonathan Taylor Thomas’ retreat from public life took on a extra lasting form. He was now not JTT, the teenager heartthrob one may reliably anticipate to see on the duvet of check-out counter magazines. Hopefully, he was someplace privately residing no matter life he had hoped to reside after stepping away from the highlight. Sadly, as so typically occurs when a Hollywood star steps out of the highlight, fan hypothesis about his life appeared to develop, exacerbated by the rise of social media.
Within the 2010s, varied on-line accounts started reporting “sightings” of Thomas throughout North America, as if he have been some legendary creature to be tracked. After all, these sightings got here with the requisite and completely inappropriate beginner psychoanalysis that’s commonplace amongst on-line fandoms today. One Redditor claimed that Thomas repeatedly visited a selected dive bar wanting “unhappy and distant,” whereas one other mentioned he left a karaoke bar in anger after somebody started singing a tune from “The Lion King.”
In actuality, the 2010s have been a time of therapeutic for Thomas, each when it comes to his relationship with the leisure business and his ex colleagues. In 2011, he met along with his former “Dwelling Enchancment” castmates for an Leisure Weekly reunion, which seemingly helped clean among the tough edges left by his departure from the present. “Thomas’ participation within the get-together was all of the extra particular as a result of many of the solid hadn’t seen him because the present ended,” Leisure Weekly’s Lynette Rice wrote, including that his look was “the icing on the reunion cake!”