Home Improvement Kid in Bizarre Divorce

[RobbO]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 9:55am

Taran Noah Smith became famous as the youngest of Tim Allen's sons on the hit TV comedy Home Improvement, but his stardom led to a brutal money battle with his parents as he married an older woman at age 17.

Now, his marriage and his life have exploded and he's in the middle of fighting his estranged wife for what is left of his fortune, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.

Taran ran away from home to wed a woman nearly twice his age over his parents' strong objections, but now tells The ENQUIRER that he recently left his wife because she announced that she preferred girls to guys! The couple agreed to have an open marriage, yet when Taran found a steady girlfriend, his angry wife smashed every dish they owned!

Now the two are not only divorced, they're fighting over ownership of a business they started together- a vegan cashew cheese making company! Those are the latest bizarre twists in the May-December love story of Taran and Heidi Van Pelt, a raw foods chef who was 32 when she married Taran three weeks after his 17th birthday.

what next? will he want to marry a goat?

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:02am

Vegan cashew cheese has been known to cause bizarre behavior in humans and dolphins. Not an excuse, just a possible explanation.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:04am

I honestly didn't think she'd be the one to announce a same-sex attraction.

[RobbO]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:06am

you must be thinking of randy, not mark. okay, maybe mark too.

[Mamie]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:14am

Actually the indiscriminate use of vegan cashew cheese can be credited for 90% of the stories printed in the National Enquirer. I know this to be a fact because I read it in the Star and they wouldn't be allowed to print it if it weren't true.

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:14am

That's not May-December! The woman was not that much older than me, and I'm hardly at death's door, thank you very much!

More like March-June.
Updated On: 8/1/07 at 10:14 AM

[RobbO]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:16am

calvin, i'm trying to post a picture for you but this site is f'ing with me again.

you'll have to settle for a link.

Updated On: 8/1/07 at 10:16 AM

[tazber]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:18am

vegan cashew cheese is frequently used on the detainees at Guantanamo I hear.

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:18am

Mmmm...cream tang.

eta: I'd tell him to ask Wilson for advice, but he's dead. Updated On: 8/1/07 at 10:18 AM

[tazber]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:19am

Just saw the link, he has crazy eyes. The kind of eyes only someone who's been around Tim Allen could have.

[RobbO]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:20am

i don't think calvin has ever been around tim allen...

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:22am

Does being around JTT count?

[tazber]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:24am

no, only being on JTT counts

[RobbO]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:25am

just for the record, he hates being called JTT and cannot understand why people cannot just call him by his full name. imdb told me so!

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:25am

What is vegan cashew cheese...is that even real?

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:26am

Why did all the Home Improvement kids have three first names, anyway? Yes, Smith can be a first name, for some old prospector who made horseshoes, at least.

[Craig]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:26am

http://www.pitch.com/2007-04-26/news/cheese-nuts/print

[RobbO]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:27am

ask taran's girlfriend. or his wife's girlfriend.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:29am

I just have a couple of questions:
How do you make "vegan cheese"?
And
Were they making this IN their trailer or in the little shack out back?

[RobbO]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:36am

reading craig's story, i guess she must have become a lesbian sometime after april 26 and before august 1.

[Craig]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:40am

Robbo - Are you saying that vegan cheese can make you gay?

[RobbO]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:43am

only in late spring, early summer, yes.

[RockabyeHamlet]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:44am

Reason #533 of why you should not get married before you can drink legally.

Updated On: 8/1/07 at 10:44 AM

[Anakela]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:45am

From a couple of weeks back-

TMZ story with video of their trashed house

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:45am

Vegan cheese is readily available at Whole Foods. It's pretty good, actually.

Technically, tofu is really a kind of "cheese" from soy milk.