According to Express, Anita Barone ultimately decided to bow out of her "Friends" role because she found it to be too minor. She followed it up with a series regular role on "The Jeff Foxworthy Show," a sitcom vehicle for the popular '90s comic, on which she played Jeff's fictional wife Karen Foxworthy. Funnily enough, that role was also recast, this time with Ann Cusack, when 'The Jeff Foxworthy Show" moved from ABC to NBC and went through a major retooling on Season 2.
Barone continued to have guest roles on various other series following her departure from "The Jeff Foxworthy Show," and, in 2000, she nabbed her second series regular part, playing working mother and attorney Linda Woods on the NBC family sitcom "Daddio," opposite Michael Chiklis. "Daddio" ultimately only aired 9 out of 18 produced episodes and was canceled after a single season, but it didn't take long for Barone to score her third series regular role, once again playing the mother on a family sitcom. The sitcom in question was Fox's "The War at Home," which premiered in 2005 and turned out to be a more successful outing for Barone, running for two seasons and featuring her on every one of its 44 total episodes.
Between 2010 and 2013, Barone also had a recurring role as Georgia Jones, the mother of CeCe (Bella Thorne) and Flynn Jones (Davis Cleveland), on the popular Disney Channel dance-themed sitcom "Shake It Up."
