Aunt Becky may have found herself heading to the unemployment line. After being indicted in one of the biggest college bribery scams on record, actress Lori Loughlin has found herself losing some of her trademark jobs.
Hallmark-owning Crown Media Family Networks said Thursday that “we are no longer working with” the actress whatsoever. The long-running Loughlin starring Garage Sale Mysteries TV movie franchise has been immediately canceled by Hallmark and at the same time, producers for the top rated and definitely not canceled When Calls The Heart are exploring a variety of options to continue without Loughlin’s Abigail Station character for the rest of the just debuted sixth season and beyond.
As for Fuller House, Netflix will likely not be inviting the actress known around the world as Aunt Becky back for the fifth and final season of the popular sequel series to Full House. Writing her out won’t be too difficult since Loughlin wasn’t a series regular and was only back on a recurring basis. Also helping matters is that a writer’s room is still in the stages of coming together to pen the last pop culture-infused 18 episodes of the Candace Cameron Bure, Andrea Barber and Jodie Sweetin-led series. This gives the writers time to address her absence, if necessary, but the writing is one the wall that Loughlin won’t be asked back.
In case you missed this should be an HBO miniseries news, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts revealed on March 12 the 50 people indicted for the $25 million scam to fast track kids of the wealthy to top schools with fake athletic credentials or phony SAT scores. Loughlin was among one of the 50 along with her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli. Loughlin wasn’t the only high-profile on the list either as Felicity Huffman was also caught up in the scandal and while she has a Netflix series on the horizon, there has been no news on that series’ fate. In the case of Loughlin and her husband, they were caught trying to juice the system. The couple is accused of paying “bribes totaling $500,000 in exchange for having their two daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew team — despite the fact that they did not participate in crew — thereby facilitating their admission to USC,” according to the 200-page indictment.
Loughlin was arrested and arraigned on Wednesday after turning herself in. The actress is currently out on a $1 million bail bond. Restricted to travel within the continental U.S. and Vancouver for work – though the latter seems irrelevant now that Hallmark wants nothing to do with her. Like what went down in her husband’s arraignment on March 12 Loughlin is set to appear in court next on March 29 for a preliminary hearing in Boston.
