Former Hallmark star Danica McKellar said Lori Loughlin didn’t deserve to go to prison over the college admissions scandal.
What she said: “She’s a wonderful person, she always has been, and it would be challenging to find a person who hasn’t made a mistake in their life,” McKellar told Insider at the iHeartRadio Music Awards in Los Angeles.
- “She served her time,” McKellar added. “I’m not going to speak to whether or not she deserved that, personally I don’t think so — but she served the time.”
Catch up quick: Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, pleaded guilty in the college admissions scandal in 2020.
- Loughlin and Giannulli allegedly paid $500,000 in bribes so that their daughters, Olivia Jade Giannulli and Isabella Rose Giannulli, would be recruited for the team crew team at the University of Southern California.
- Olivia Jade and Isabella did not have experience with crew or rowing at the time.
- Loughlin and Giannulli originally pleaded not guilty before flipping their plea amid the pandemic.
- Both served time and were released from prison by mid-2021.
The bigger picture: Loughlin has made her return to acting already, appearing on the GAC Family show “When Hope Calls” — a spinoff of the “When Calls the Heart” series on Hallmark, as I reported for the Deseret News.
- But Loughlin still remains unconnected to the Hallmark Channel proper, which cut all ties with her after the college scandal first broke.