Well, I guess this is one way to get back in the news, right? There’s an old saying in Hollywood, that once your career is over you can’t even get arrested in this town. Well Dawn Wells, 69, formerly Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island, did get arrested, but she was in Idaho at the time. (One out of two ain’t bad.) Wells was busted by a Teton County sheriff’s Deputy (I don’t know where the hell that is, either) with marijuana in her car. She’s set to serve six months’ unsupervised probation for the bust. Best part of the story: Wells blamed the marijuana smell coming from her car on three hitchhikers she had given a ride to earlier. Nice one, Mary Ann!
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She was sentenced Feb. 29 to five days in jail, fined $410.50 and placed on probation after pleading guilty to one count of reckless driving.
Under a plea agreement, three misdemeanor counts — driving under the influence, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance — were dropped.
She was arrested October 18 of last year, but it took this long for anyone in the media to recognize that Dawn Wells was still a celebrity and to make a big deal of the arrest. Damn, that’s gotta sting worst than the pot charge.
Oh well, at least now we know why the castaways never made it off the island: Mary Ann kept smoking the friggin’ raft.
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