Alfonso Ribeiro doesn't 'need or ever want' Tyler Perry 'to do anything for me'

The "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" actor and "Dancing With the Stars" host did not elaborate.

Alfonso Ribeiro is doing just fine.

When someone on Twitter suggested to the actor/host/director that Tyler Perry, himself a writer/director/actor, "revamp" Ribeiro's career, he responded: "I don't need or ever want that man to do anything for me."

The two do have a professional history, however; Ribeiro directed 12 episodes of the Perry-created sitcom Meet the Browns in 2009 and 2010.

Entertainment Weekly has reached out to reps for both Ribeiro and Perry.

Ribeiro doesn't seem to need any help from anyone anyway. Since 2022, the actor has hosted Dancing With the Stars, which he won in November 2014. He's also hosted TV staple America's Funniest Home Videos since 2015.

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Ribeiro's signature role, of course, is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air's Carlton Banks, the preppy cousin of Will Smith's main character, who famously did a certain move that, for decades, has been known as "the Carlton dance."

He told Today in September 2022 that fans were still into it.

"You come to grips with the idea that that person existed and that reality for you existed and, for me, I've come to the realization that when people come up to me on the street and they're like, 'Do the dance,' it's like, 'Really? You're asking me to dance for you?'"

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All these years later — Fresh Prince was on the air from 1990 to 1996 — he's come to terms with it.

"It's really their experience and you learn to get that empathy where you can kind of say, 'This is about you and what you had in your house and I can appreciate it.' I'm still not dancing. But I get to appreciate other people’s experience with me as that character."

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