Remember when actor, Joseph C. Phillips, played “Denise Huxtable’s” husband, “Lt. Martin Kendall” on “The Cosby Show?” His character was a clean cut, conservative kinda cat who loved him some “Denise.” Although “Lt. Kendall” and “Denise’s” marriage seemed like it would last forever, Joseph’s real life marriage is about to come to an end.

Divorce Details

News has just surfaced that his wife of 23 years, Nicole Phillips (pictured in above photo with Joseph), has just hit him with a divorce filing and plans on saying ‘Peace out’ to the father of her three kids- Connor, Ellis, and Samuel:

Via The Blast: According to court documents obtained by The Blast, Nicole Phillips filed for divorce back on July 19. She cites irreconcilable differences and says they split last November.[…] Nicole is seeking joint custody of Samuel (he is the only one of the three children that is a minor) and is asking the court to not allow Joseph to be awarded spousal support.

Joseph, his kids, and his soon-to-be-ex-wife live a pretty private life, so not much is known about they’re marriage. What we do know though, is that the spousal support she’s requesting has a greater shot at being larger now, than what it could have been about a year and a half ago. You see, although Joseph’s had several roles in films and television shows, including “General Hospital,” for the past few years, his acting gigs haven’t been as plentiful. Fortunately for Nicole, ever since 2017, he’s been back on the scene with his recurring role on the hit Netflix series, “13 Reasons Why.”

That Time He Blasted Bill Cosby: “Of Course Bill Cosby Is Guilty”

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If there’s one thing we know Joseph C. Phillips to be, it’s outspoken. He’s a proud Republican, who’s oftentimes outspoken about his political beliefs. He’s also been very outspoken about his former “cosby Show” co-star, Bill Cosby.
Shortly after the first wave of sexual assault allegations against Cosby hit mainstream media, Joseph was the first “Cosby Show” actor to blast Bill in public. Well, at this point, none of the other “Cosby” stars have spoken negatively about Bill, with the exception of Lisa Bonet’s subtle shade.

Anyways, that didn’t stop Joseph though. In 2015, he wrote a lengthy blog post, titled “Of Course Bill Cosby Is Guilty!,” in which he discussed Bill’s sexual assault scandal. He admitted that he idolized Bill Cosby and stated that he owed much of who he is to Bill. Yet, he also had this to say, when recalling the encounter he’d had with an “old friend” who was also a known actress:

Joseph C. Phillips- “I was particularly shaken the afternoon I bumped into an old friend while shopping. The controversy was at its height. The story of Bill was all over the press. […] Over the years, I had watched with a passive interest as her career grew, so I was excited to see her and catch up a bit. As we spoke, I recalled that Bill had been her mentor (play father, teacher…something. I couldn’t quite recall what it was).

The question popped into my head. “Hey, do you mind if I ask you something?”

Before I finished the sentence, she began to cry. […] We spent the next two hours sitting on a bench talking. Through tears, she told me her story. She cursed him for violating both her trust and her body. She cursed herself for not being smarter, and for degrading herself in pursuit of success. I listened patiently. As she began to run out of steam, she turned to me. “Do you believe me?”

“Yes.” I said. “I believe you. … Because I don’t believe that you are crazy and only a crazy person would sit with me all this time and share a fantasy.”

Woah! Thoughts ILOSM family?

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READ MALCOLM’S MESSAGE:

Malcolm Jamal Warner: “The unfortunate controversy plaguing this show’s legacy will not stop me from celebrating that on this date 32 years ago “The Cosby Show” aired and for 8 years (and beyond) broke records, made history, changed television, and changed the trajectory of many, MANY lives. Its positive social impact is innumerable & cannot be denied. No matter how one feels about the man behind the show, no matter if some networks never bring it back on air, the good that this show did worldwide is irreversible. It was major progress. However, I’m conflicted celebrating this post bc with that said, it’s obvious that the world we live in still has much more work to do.”

“The show has not prevented black men from being shot by police even if their hands are up. The impact of the show has not protected black men and black women from the confusion, intimidation, sheer hatred, and downright ignorance of a large part of white America (and in some cases, black America). The struggle continues.”

“As “The Cosby Show” forced white America and black America to recognize the black upper middle class (shedding light on the fact that black folks did live like the Huxtables and inspiring many more to achieve that “American Dream,”) the work that we need to do takes the work of ALL of us on every socio-economic level.”

“We may have differences-different value systems, different economic hardships. We may like different music, different styles of dress, different education levels. But at the end of the day, we are black people still fighting blatant ignorance and hatred. That puts us all in the same boat. House slave or field slave is still a slave and the strength of the hatred towards us knows no difference.”

“We HAVE come a long way in this country that we helped build and that should be celebrated, while at the same recognizing we still have a long way to go. And fighting and beefing with each other only gets in the way of collectively paying attention and staying collectively focused on protecting ourselves from the forces and people seriously trying to hurt us. #BlackLove shouldn’t be relegated to just black couples. It should be the standard in how we see, treat, & respect each other.” – Malcom Jamal-Warner

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Malcolm Jamal Warner: “Never allow yourself to be defined by other people’s opinions of you.”

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An unspoken circumstance as a matter of the show being pulled off the air is the loss of money for it’s actors.

“It’s literally taking money out of my pocket,” Warner said during an appearance on The Real. “So I got my own personal feelings about that, because it personally affects me.”

“There is no one that has been calling for Woody [Allen]’s movies to be pulled off the air,” Warner said. “Roman Polanski is still celebrated. Stephen Collins’ show still comes on. So it’s just interesting how it’s very unbalanced.”

This does not mean, Warner was careful to note, that he was defending Cosby in any way, though.

“I am in no position to defend him, because I can’t,” he said. “But nor will I throw him under the bus.”

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One of our favorite Old School celebs is in the news again, and if you didn’t know there are serious allegations regarding Bill Cosby sexually assaulting multiple women over the years. In a recent news column by The Washington Post, a woman, (Barbara Bowman) says,

[pull_quote_center]Cosby won my trust as a 17-year-old aspiring actress in 1985, brainwashed me into viewing him as a father figure, and then assaulted me multiple times.[/pull_quote_center]

So here we are again, looking at another one of our iconic entertainers who has supplied us with great food for the soul over many years, like The Cosby Show, Fat Albert, and movies like “A Piece of the Action”, but what are we to do or to think? Before you answer, check out the interview on the next page, by NPR’s Weekend Edition. Bill Cosby and his wife Camille were being interviewed, and Cosby froze up when interviewer Scott Simon asked him about the “serious allegations raised” about him. Cosby did not reply at all verbally, but simply shook his head.

“You’re shaking your head no,” Simon continued. “I’m in the news business. I have to ask the question. Do you have any response to those charges?”

Cosby shook his head again, and did not reply. Listen to the interview next>>>

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