Jaleel White Married

Jaleel White Married, He first stole our hearts as the lovable snort-prone Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” and now, Jaleel White is set to make America smile once again as he prepares to hit the ballroom on “Dancing with the Stars.”

As his dance floor debut draws near, AccessHollywood.com caught up with the 35-year-old star to dish on his multiple upcoming projects, fatherhood and his off-screen relationship with Kellie Shanygne Williams (Laura Winslow on “Family Matters”) – the long-desired object of Urkel’s bespectacled, suspendered affection.

“It was very brother-sisterly,” Jaleel said of his off-air status with Kellie. “She’s married now and we both have children. She moved back to Maryland and I think that was a good move for her. She’s readapted to real life and motherhood.”

Adding, “Kellie’s wonderful – she’s great. I always thought she was an incredibly underrated actress.”

Hanging out with Kellie and friends wasn’t the only perk of “Family Matters” daily life – Jaleel revealed he used to play basketball with George Clooney during his down time, as the “ER” set was right next door.

“[I won] pretty much all the time. But George is quite the hustler when it comes to H.O.R.S.E.,” Jaleel told Access with a laugh, referring to the friendly basketball game. “You do not want to play George Clooney in H.O.R.S.E.!

“I haven’t [kept in touch with him],” he added. “Obviously there was a huge age difference and our interaction was organic. The guy loves basketball, he’s a complete gentleman — very competitive — and really one of the coolest guys I’ve ever had the pleasure of working next door to on a stage.”

Now the proud father of a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Jaleel admits his baby girl is more familiar with his role in the family comedy “Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer,” versus “Family Matters.”

“She’s old enough to understand that Daddy goes to work, she is old enough to understand that Daddy’s work puts him on the TV,” Jaleel told Access of his daughter’s comprehension of his career . “She will come hit me over the head with the ‘Judy Moody’ DVD and say, ‘Put Daddy in!’ and I think that’s really awesome.

“People ask all the time, ‘Does she know what you did?’ and I say, ‘No! You’re old, she’s young!” he added, laughing. “She knows me from ‘Judy Moody’ and the Cee Lo video [‘Cry Baby’].”

Jaleel White

Jaleel White, The actor Jaleel White prompted one of the biggest cheers when the roll-call for this year’s Dancing With The Stars was announced. And the Hollywood Reporter caught up with the former Family Matters star – along with his professional dance partner Kym Johnson – to find out what made him finally give in to the repeated requests to take part in the show.

Jaleel explained that “The offer ran through my mom this time instead of me,” before adding that Dancing With The Stars is his mother’s favorite show. He’s not just there to keep his mother happy though; White told reporters “I am here to win.” Jaleel White’s geeky character in Family Matters, Steve Urkel, inspired a comedy dance craze, The Urkel Dance, in the early 1990s and he admitted that he’d quite like to figure out a way of bringing in a homage to the hip-thrusting moves that have now become a YouTube phenomenon: “I was talking to [Kym] about some type of homage. I don’t know what it would be, I really don’t,” he told Thr. “If I could find something in there that would be tongue and cheek, I’d do it,” he told Hollywood Reporter.