What Happened to our Mary Ann, Dawn Wells?
The good-girl actress who played Mary Ann on the popular TV show, Gilligan’s Island about a hundred years ago, is now serving a six month’s sentence of probation after getting busted with weed in her car.
She tried to pass it off on three hitchhikers she picked up and dropped off that had been smoking “something.” Unfortunately, she couldn’t come up with a good enough story to explain the half-smoked joints and two small cases in her car used to store good ol’ Mary Jane.
Gosh darn, isn’t it ironic that Bob Denver, her co-star from Gilligan’s Island, was arrested in 1998 for having a parcel of - you guessed it - marijuana delivered to his home.
Initially he said that the package had come from Dawn Wells (yup, Mary Ann), then later wouldn’t give her name in court. He instead testified that “some crazy fan must have sent it.” He pleaded no contest and received six months’ probation.
Wouldn’t it be nice to think that we have at least a couple of TV icons from ‘way back when’ who owned up to the truth when put in the spotlight without shucking it off onto someone else.
Kind of makes you wonder what the Skipper, the Professor and Ginger were up to on that island, doesn’t it?
