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.
Can I start with: is she dead?
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 13, 2023 12:02 AM |
Prediction: this will be the shortest Datalounge thread EVER.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 13, 2023 12:07 AM |
What is there to say about Jill...Whelan?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 13, 2023 12:07 AM |
I will always love her for her performance in "Airplane!"
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 13, 2023 12:08 AM |
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.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 13, 2023 12:09 AM |
And...yeah...and...
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | January 13, 2023 12:10 AM |
uhhhh...
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 13, 2023 12:11 AM |
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.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 13, 2023 12:13 AM |
She wore one of the ugliest 70s hairstyles
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 13, 2023 12:16 AM |
She looks good at R10 -- I would not have recognized her. She got a Real Housewife glow-up.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 13, 2023 12:43 AM |
It should have said “Your Vicki” instead of just “Vicki” during the creditsw
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 13, 2023 12:50 AM |
CO-star and confidante of
J O Y C E
B U L I F A N T
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 13, 2023 1:11 AM |
Jill was Lauren Tewes's cocaine mule on the Love Boat set. Jill was the only one they would never search.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | January 13, 2023 1:20 AM |
Jill is fine as long as she is NOT another MAGA loon like so many of her contemporaries shrieking on social media.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | January 13, 2023 2:16 AM |
I thought it was all smuggled in in Charo's bra.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | January 13, 2023 2:18 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!
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | January 13, 2023 3:25 AM |
She looked very slappable to me as a feisty 6 yr old.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | January 13, 2023 5:52 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.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | January 13, 2023 6:27 PM |
R19 Glenn Scarpelli. don’t get me started!
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | January 13, 2023 6:31 PM |