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Later speaking with The Advocate, he again shot down the rumors, which he explains started on a website called CyberSleaze.

“It was just a blatant lie put on the internet and then it was like a feeding frenzy. And I’m sure it was validated by my recent roles,” Thomas said. “What startled me was how willingly people accepted it.”

‘No regrets’

Next, he crushed hearts when he stepped away from Hollywood to pursue his dreams of “going to school.”

After graduating New York’s Chaminade College Preparatory School in 2000, he went to Harvard University, where he studied philosophy and history. He later graduated from the Columbia University School of General Studies in 2010.

“To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me,” he says.

Admitting that he “never took the fame too seriously” he expresses his gratitude, saying that “It was a great period in my life…But it doesn’t define me.”

He continued, “When I think back on the time, I look at it with a wink. I focus on the good moments I had, not that I was on a lot of magazine covers.”

Taking advantage of his free time, Thomas says that he has “no regrets” about leaving Hollywood.

But he didn’t disappear entirely. Between 2013 to 2015, the former teen heartthrob reunited with Allen, his TV dad from Home Improvement, for four episodes of Last Man Standing. He also directed three episodes of the series.

Rare sighting

In 2023, two years after he was spotted walking his dogs, the star was seen out in public and the images created quite the buzz amongst fans.