Best known as Vicki Stubing on The Love Boat. She starred in a local production of The King and I at 8 yrs old. An M&M commercial and Friends (not 90s Friends). It was quickly cancelled. A big role as a heart patient in Airplane. Later an investigative tv show producer, radio disc jockey and talk radio comedy show performer. She attended Guildford College in England for a few weeks. She married and divorced many times. She helped promote Princess Cruise Lines for strategic marketing purposes for limited engagement.

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January 13, 2023 5:31 PM

Can I start with: is she dead?

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January 12, 2023 11:02 PM

Prediction: this will be the shortest Datalounge thread EVER.

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January 12, 2023 11:07 PM

What is there to say about Jill...Whelan?

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January 12, 2023 11:07 PM

I will always love her for her performance in "Airplane!"

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January 12, 2023 11:08 PM

When I was a little kid and regularly watching Love Boat repeats in syndication, I think I was ... vaguely unsettled by the way in which, in some episodes, she seemed to be a preadolescent child and in other episodes she seemed to be an adult woman.

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January 12, 2023 11:09 PM

R5 I was also disturbed (as a child) seeing her sexual innuendo and desire for her adopted dad (Captain Stubing) on The Love Boat. Must have been the booze and drug use.

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January 12, 2023 11:13 PM

She wore one of the ugliest 70s hairstyles

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January 12, 2023 11:16 PM

She's had some good work done.

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January 12, 2023 11:32 PM

She looks good at R10 -- I would not have recognized her. She got a Real Housewife glow-up.

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January 12, 2023 11:43 PM

It should have said “Your Vicki” instead of just “Vicki” during the creditsw

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January 12, 2023 11:50 PM

CO-star and confidante of

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January 13, 2023 12:11 AM

Jill was Lauren Tewes's cocaine mule on the Love Boat set. Jill was the only one they would never search.

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January 13, 2023 12:20 AM

Jill is fine as long as she is NOT another MAGA loon like so many of her contemporaries shrieking on social media.

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January 13, 2023 1:16 AM

I thought it was all smuggled in in Charo's bra.

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January 13, 2023 1:18 AM

When the Love Boat sailed to Cartagena in 1981, Lauren sent naive Jill alone by taxi from the docks to visit "Uncle Pablo" in the mountains and bring back his special gifts for Lauren and special guest star Mackenzie Phillips. Jill said it was only many years later that it dawned on her that she had unwittingly become the youngest and cutest member of the Medellin Cartel!

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January 13, 2023 2:25 AM

She looked very slappable to me as a feisty 6 yr old.

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January 13, 2023 4:52 PM

I've seen her pop up on several of those Zoom shows people were doing during covid. She seems to be living that certain type of celebrity lifestyle that really fascinates me: having a measure of fame and name recognition, but doesn't necessarily work steadily enough to live that luxe celebrity life. So they do a lot of corporate gigs and autograph conventions and obscure movies, and generally work their hustle to keep the lights on. I'd love to see a documentary about those folks.

Anyway, from those Zoom things, Jill seems really nice and funny, and a dedicated fag hag. She's best friends with Glenn Scarpelli, another actor who might be in that same category as above.

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January 13, 2023 5:27 PM

R19 Glenn Scarpelli. don’t get me started!

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January 13, 2023 5:31 PM