Jeleel White, the actor who played Steve Urkel on the hit TV series Family Matters likes his women like his last name … WHITE.
LOS ANGELES, CA – MARCH 29: Jaleel White is seen at Giorgio Baldi restaurant on March 29, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by The Hollywood Curtain/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
Media Take Out caught up with Jaleel a few weeks ago leaving a Hollywood hot spot with his newest girlfriend. The woman is a very pretty – and very blonde.
Look:
LOS ANGELES, CA – MARCH 29: Jaleel White is seen at Giorgio Baldi restaurant on March 29, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by The Hollywood Curtain/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)LOS ANGELES, CA – MARCH 29: Jaleel White is seen at Giorgio Baldi restaurant on March 29, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by The Hollywood Curtain/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
And this wasn’t the first time that we’ve spotted Jaleel out with a the blonde. Last year, he brought his then-girlfriend, also a blonde, to Dave Chapelle’s comedy show:
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – AUGUST 25: Jaleel White attends Dave Chappelle’s stand up comedy at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan on August 25, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Robert Kamau/GC Images)
And there’s more. He’s brought his girlfriend to dozens of red carpet events, including the NAACP Image Awards. They seem to be really happy with each other.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 01: Jaleel White (C) attends Netflix’s “Hustle” World Premiere at Regency Village Theatre on June 01, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 19: Jaleel White and Guest attend the Season 3 Premiere of Apple TV’s “Truth be Told” at Pacific Design Center on January 19, 2023 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Robin L Marshall/FilmMagic)LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 16: (L-R) Dean Spanos, Susie Spanos, Nadine Barber, Gary Barber, a guest and Jaleel White attend Debbie Allen Dance Academy “A Night to Remember” Gala at Debbie Allen Dance Academy on November 16, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images)
And Uriel definitely has a type. He’s been romantically linked to actress Christine Lakin from fellow TGIF show Step by Step in the early 90s.
HOLLYWOOD – NOVEMBER 4: Actress Christine Lakin attends the film premiere of “Femme Fatale” on November 4, 2002 at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Vince Bucci/Getty Images)
Jaleel also has one daughter, Samaya (b. 2009), with ex-girlfriend Bridget Hardy – a blonde.
He also had a longterm relationship with Shannon Decker, and access who – surprisingly – was a brunette.
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 09: Jaleel White, Samaya White and Shannon Decker arrive at the Premiere Of Sony Pictures’ “Jumanji: The Next Level” on December 09, 2019 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage)
Jaleel is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Steve Urkel on the sitcom Family Matters.The character was originally intended to be a one-time guest appearance on the show; however, he was an instant hit with audiences and White became a regular cast member. The series aired for a total of nine seasons, from 1989 to 1998. White then reprised his role as Urkel for the first time in 21 years in the 2019 series Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?.
White is also the first actor to voice the popular Sega video game character Sonic the Hedgehog in animated media, doing so in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog (also known as Sonic SatAM) and Sonic Underground(in which he also voiced Sonic’s siblings Sonia and Manic), all of which were produced by the now-defunct DIC Entertainment studio. He then reprised his role as Sonic in the 2013 Sonic fan film.
