{"id":2236096,"date":"2026-01-15T15:39:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2236096"},"modified":"2026-01-15T15:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:39:37","slug":"tim-allen-addresses-why-his-shifting-gears-character-avoids-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tim-allen-addresses-why-his-shifting-gears-character-avoids-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Allen Addresses Why His \u2018Shifting Gears\u2019 Character Avoids Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tim Allen<\/a> plays a grieving widow and auto restoration shop owner on ABC\u2019s sitcom Shifting Gears<\/a>, but his character is a blank slate when it comes to his political views, and that is by design. Speaking to Us Weekly in a recent interview, Allen revealed that it was intentional to keep his character\u2019s (Matt Parker<\/a>) political leanings under wraps, so as not to distract from the other elements of Matt\u2019s life and personality. \u201cYou don\u2019t know how smart this guy is. You don\u2019t know who Matt Parker is,\u201d Allen told the outlet. \u201cHe\u2019s a little hard to pin down about what he really thinks…<\/div>\n

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Tim Allen plays a grieving widow and auto restoration shop owner on ABC\u2019s sitcom Shifting Gears, but his character is a blank slate when it comes to his political views, and that is by design. Speaking to Us Weekly in a recent interview, Allen revealed that it was intentional to keep his character\u2019s (Matt Parker) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2236097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2236096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Tim-Allen-Addresses-Why-His-\u2018Shifting-Gears-Character-Avoids-Politics.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2236098,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236096\/revisions\/2236098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2236097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}