Has anyone checked in on Ann Jillian recently?

Well about 10 years ago I passed her on the street. He stepped up onto the curb and was face to face with her. I said Hi (and then felt stupid.) She smiled and nodded.

Okay, she may be less than wealthy; but then again, she's young and healthy!

Was playing Mae West her nadir?

Isn't she a breast cancer survivor from a long time ago, like the 80's?

Her hair used to fascinate me when I was a kid.

Yes r4. She got an Emmy nomination for playing herself in a TV movie about it. I remember it being really big news as a kid and kind of shocking that a sex symbol like her got breast cancer.

Wikipedia says she's a motivational speaker now.

She's fine and sends her love.

I believe she is known as "Superstar Ann Jillian"!

Someone should give her a sitcom or mystery series.

When she was popular in the eighties all I could see was her awful hair. In the last year I’ve watched a lot of It’s A Living reruns and a few of hertz movies from the 80s - she is really beautiful! I don’t know why I didn’t see it before. I remember that she and her cop husband used to be in all of the magazines and talk shows back in the day.

She’s really still very pretty at r9 for an old lady.

Hertz - her!! Yes - she IS still very pretty in that photo - her skin and eyes are clear and beautiful.

She looks like a fat tub of shit!

She really is a beautiful woman, and I'm in love love! I remember her mostly from Mr. Mom.

My parents went to see her in the late 80s or early 90s. She was very sweet and flirted with my dad who was in his 80s at the time. I will always love her for that.

I think she looks great.

Oh, no, sad last days!

She was everywhere in the 80s. Always on tv and magazine covers.

Can't Crystal Bernard or Louise Lasser help her out?

Did It's a Living have a catch-phrase?

For someone who has been in showbiz since childhood, she always seemed to be a nice, normal, non-showbiz type of person.

Judging from the photos on this thread, she still looks good. Glad she finally ditched that platinum pageboy she had for a long time.

Looks like she is still married to that ex-cop from Chicago — must be something like 45-years! Good for them!

I hear she visits Barry Schofield's grave weekly and does a little "Nyah, nyah, nyah" dance.

She looks great for 72.

Foxy lady!

Ann Jillian’s career is like the best Tracey Ullman skit ever.

An interview from 2020:

Didn’t she become Loni’s cunt double?

This woman is someone I get Mandela effect about.

Could have sworn she died in the 80s.

Is TV Land still airing original scripted shows? Someone should pitch a comedy starring Ann Jillian and DL icon Joyce DeWitt!

They could play crime-solving sisters!

R16 She looks like the usual back-drop of a MAGA rally.

One of the laziest and most disagreeable celebrities out there.

A healthcare nonprofit in my city contracted with her to be the featured speaker at their annual fundraiser.

Contract terms included doing pre-event media interviews scheduled by the nonprofit in coordination with her manager’s assistant. Several were on the calendar.

Imagine the nonprofit’s surprise when her husband, the man mentioned above, started to verbally berate the nonprofit’s volunteer, but very experienced, rep who was donating their services and booked the interviews. Regarding the contractually obligated morning show interviews, he started screaming at staff “you don’t wake the star! You don’t wake the star! This is ANN JILLIAN!” All of this was followed by threats of coming to this city to physically assault the person on the other end of the phone. Witnesses to the phone call were concerned not only for the volunteer’s safety but for Ms. Jillian’s personal safety, he was that volatile.

The kicker? Ms. Jillian was paid $15,000 to deliver a speech about her life experiences and encourage women to get mammograms. BUT, the speech she was reading from was from an event conducted four years prior, which had her age woven throughout. She would read a sentence with that age mention and say, “guess I should have updated this” or “I’m way older now.” For $15,000 plus airfare, lodging, meals, car service and extras she couldn’t even be bothered to read the speech beforehand or prepare.

The karma? Ms. Jillian and her charming husband had sent 8x10 glossies (converted to digital files for them, which they were shocked at) that they insisted be the ones used in the media and event promotions. The photo — at their direction — was displayed prominently throughout the venue. Imagine her surprise when she walked up to the podium with the CEO, stood next to her, was introduced and received absolutely no welcome applause. Everyone in the room was dead quiet. Bless her heart, the charming woman had gained so much weight she bore absolutely no resemblance to the woman whose picture was plastered around the room. “No really, I’m Ann Jillian,” was what brought people in the room out of their stupor.

It was a delicious moment for everyone who had been dealing with this has-been and her unhinged spouse/manager.

WOW, R32, that’s sad to hear!

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She was superb, as Mae West, in that TV movie in 1982 or so.