Lori Loughlin Pokes Fun at College Admissions Scandal on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’
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Five years after the infamous college admissions scandal, Lori Loughlin can look back and laugh. The actress joined Curb Your Enthusiasm and Larry David to parody her controversy of paying a fixer to get her daughters into USC.
In the episode, Larry David gets Loughlin’s character a membership into a country club as she cheats at golf, lies to get handicap privileges, and flirts with a guy for good tee times, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Show director Jeff Schaffer told THR that the idea was concocted by writer Teddy Bressman, who wanted to get Loughlin onboard for the episode.
“We called her manager up, who loved it, and who then talked to Lori, and she said: ‘I’m in, I’m totally game.’ And she was,” Schaffer said. “She was so great. Everything we threw at her, she was game to do. She makes the episode. I’m so glad she wanted to do it.”
Loughlin served two months of her sentence in prison before being released in 2020 for her role in the college admissions scandal. She was one of more than 40 people charged with fraud for their involvement in the college admissions scheme.
According to court documents, Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli, “agreed to pay bribes totaling $500,000 in exchange for having their two daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew team — even though they did not participate in crew — thereby facilitating their admission to USC.”
“It’s great to be able to laugh at yourself. It’s a great way to put the past behind you,” Schaffer told THR. “I hope it helps her career. She was great, and she should work. She was really funny and wonderful to work with. People should see, ‘Oh, she’s really funny. She’s great in this stuff.’ So yeah, I hope she does get to work because she deserves to.”
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