Tisha Campbell had quite the sweet gig co-hosting the Soul Train Music Awards for the fourth straight year, but watching the original show was fraught with danger for her as a kid.
“I have fond memories of ‘Soul Train,’ but they’re not all good,” the actress, 53, exclusively told Page Six. “I would sit in front of the TV waiting to see the latest dances, the latest outfits and fashion and the latest artist as well. You just couldn’t wait to see who’s going to perform.
“But then right after that, karate came on [TV], and then I had to go run and hide from my brothers because that’s when they thought they were ninjas,” she joked. “I would have to go run so I [wouldn’t] get my ass beat.”
Campbell doesn’t exactly have fond memories of her “Martin” co-star and Soul Train Music Awards co-host Tichina Arnold either, as Arnold, now 52, used to prank Campbell by trying to get her in trouble with her jealous boyfriend.
“Oh, I hate Tichina,” she jokingly told us. “I was dating my then-boyfriend, and Tichina — I don’t know why she would do this — but I would come home, and Thomas [Mikal Ford], who played Tommy, [his] shoes would be in my boyfriend’s closet.
“He had a big humongous foot,” Campbell recalled. “His shoes would always be in my house in my boyfriend’s closet, and my boyfriend would get so angry. She got me in trouble on purpose.”
Ford, who died at age 52 in 2016 from a ruptured abdominal aneurysm, would then “act like he didn’t know what was going on,” according to Campbell.
“That went on for about a year,” she said.