Back in the 90's, this actress was probably A- list. A couple of nice television runs. Not as the star of the show, but as a good solid second billed person. On the show that brought her fame was also the show where she got the reputation as the barely legal (and lets be honest, she was doing it before she was legal too while on the show) actress who loved doing threesomes. She was publicly in the closet, but loved men and women and was up for anything.
It was that up for anything that kept her employed when the vast majority of tween/teen actors now going into their 20's struggled to find employment. In fact, the star of the show that made her famous suffered from that for a couple of decades. Right after her show ended, she had lots of offers. They all came with the wink wink knowledge that she was there to have fun with the star of the project during the shoot or the producer before she landed the job.
This went on for a good decade through another successful television run and then she was done. At that point, she wanted to get her life back and be who she wanted to be with rather than feel like she was having to be with someone for work. She has done a couple things in the decade since, but for the most part has just been living her life, including coming out.
It was that up for anything that kept her employed when the vast majority of tween/teen actors now going into their 20's struggled to find employment. In fact, the star of the show that made her famous suffered from that for a couple of decades. Right after her show ended, she had lots of offers. They all came with the wink wink knowledge that she was there to have fun with the star of the project during the shoot or the producer before she landed the job.
This went on for a good decade through another successful television run and then she was done. At that point, she wanted to get her life back and be who she wanted to be with rather than feel like she was having to be with someone for work. She has done a couple things in the decade since, but for the most part has just been living her life, including coming out.
I was going to say Christina Applegate until the end.
ReplyDeleteMaybe too young but Raven Symone?
ReplyDeleteJenna Von Oy from Blossom.
ReplyDeleteKristi McNichol
ReplyDelete@sandybrook - Raven Symone is starring on her own hit show again on Disney Channel called Raven's Home and before that she was on The View hosting. So it can't be her.
ReplyDeleteOkay but I don't want it to be Six either take that back Moose! 😢
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ReplyDeleteNot McNichol. I thought of her, too, but googled Family and noted it aired in 1976. Too old.
ReplyDeleteKristi McNichol was in her 30s during the 90s, so doesn't really fit the barely legal label.
ReplyDeleteJenna Von Oy had Blossom, then The Parkers. Spotty appearances on TV since.
ReplyDeleteCame out a while back, and is now engaged to a woman, after having been married and had a couple kids.
Sorry, @Sandybrook - but she fits this blind pretty well.
ReplyDeleteNah I just went to Wikipedia it appears Six is now engaged to a woman after leaving her husband😬
ReplyDeleteI was thinking Mila Kunis (14 when she started That 70s Show - she supposedly lied to the producers about her age. Yeah right) but she's gone on to bigger better things since. Hardly "just a couple of things".
ReplyDeleteI'm still thinking Nikki Cox. Happily ever after and Las Vegas for the shows.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking Leanna Creel who came on in the last season of Saved by the Bell, but she hasnt done anything since.
ReplyDeleteSarah Gilbert works steadily.
Really no clue
Nikki Cox is a good guess, but she was married to Jay Mohr for 12 years. Thats a long time to beard
ReplyDeleteGauloise, wasn't it just said by Dean McDermott that he had a sexual encounter with Jay Mohr when they were younger?
ReplyDeleteSo Six was down with threesomes, didn't see that coming.
ReplyDeletestevie van lowe
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ReplyDeleteJenna von Oÿ ticks all the boxes. +1 to moose
ReplyDeleteWho are these people? The only names that I recognize are Christina A. & Mila.
ReplyDeleteThe Kristi McNichol guesses are absurd. She was never a kid on shows in the 90s and is considerably older. Jenny makes sense but are they saying she and Raven or Blossom got it on too?
ReplyDeleteSo was Jenna getting it on with Monique on the Parkers??
ReplyDeleteI randomly read this as Von Oy as well, prior to scrolling
ReplyDeleteVan Oy makes more sense seeing as she just got engaged to a woman. My first thought was Tiffani Thiessen tho.
ReplyDeleteIs Soiled Moon French-Fry (aka Punky Brewster) married to a man still? She had a few show appearances from the 80s - early 00s.
ReplyDeleteDon’t know about her relationship but I have some doubts it’s her. I remember her talking about getting a breast reduction as soon as she could because she didn’t like the extra attention her big breasts were getting her.
DeleteWonder if her husband knew she used to be the town tricycle?
ReplyDeletemila kunis
ReplyDeletemind blown. Jenna is separated and engaged to some lady. can't imagine her and Countess. loved The Parkers!! what's the dirt on Professor O?
ReplyDeleteDidn’t Kristy McNichol have a nervous breakdown and leave Hollywood for good in the late 80’s/early 90’s? Her and Tatum O’Neal were in that movie Little Foxes which was basically nothing more than a pre-teen sexfest. And based on the stuff presented on this website I’m shocked no one has ever mentioned the possible atrocities.
ReplyDeleteCrazyCatLady... it was Little Darlings
ReplyDeletethe only person who fits at all is Kristy.
ReplyDelete"Family" in the late 70s.
"Empty Nest" in the early 90s.
Erratic behavior at work led to a bipolar diagnosis. I think in 95?
She left "Empty Nest" and quit show business.
Little Darlings was huge for me. I was the perfect age to be attracted to the guys and oddly attracted to the girls and intrigued by the sex stuff! it was like Judy Blume on film. i think this person has to be younger that KM -
ReplyDeleteNever heard of Jenna Von Oy, but I'll just assume it's her.
ReplyDeleteHow can someone be A- and anyone outside the industry has never heard of them, i.e. Jenna Van Oy.
ReplyDeleteMacKenzie somebody from One Day at a Time.
mackenzie slept with her dad supposedly. she sure did act strange on various talk shows and kind of don't believe her. I'm with mama Michelle on this one
Deleteneve campbell?
ReplyDelete@Boots -Same!! Lifelong Matt Dillon fan ever since that movie!
ReplyDeleteThis makes no sense. 1999 was 20 years ago. If this cohort is just going into their 20s, they would have been0 - at the oldest - in the 90s.
ReplyDelete'A couple of nice television runs'. I came up with the following who all had multiple TV hits:
ReplyDeleteLisa Bonet, Staci Keanan, Kristy McNichol, Val Bertinelli, Cybill Shepherd, Shannen Doherty, Kim Fields, Alyssa Milano, Raven Symone, Courteney Cox, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Katherine Helmond, Kate Jackson, Suzanne Somers, Meredith Baxter Birney, Shelley Fabares.
(There are of course, lots of older actresses who had multiple TV hits. Georgia Engel, Betty White, Mary Tyler Moore, Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, etc)
@Sd Auntie
ReplyDeleteMichelle Phillips doesn't fit. She's only been on one TV show for any length of time, which was "knots Landing".
(Tho she did a lot of TV movies)
oh i know. michelle said mack is a lying sack of shit with a needle in her arm and i have to agree. no this is JVO or KMN. i always thought Mcnichol was gay from day one and could see her and Tatum together. had a huge crush on Jimmy too. lol
DeleteI agree with Moose....JV Oy...then Mayim Bialek makes come back on Big Bang
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ReplyDeleteIyari Limon was absolutely gorgeous
ReplyDeleteI agree w/everyone's JV Oy guess.
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