Gilligan's Island and Weed - Part 2
Why did those seven castaways spend 15 years on that uncharted desert isle? Maybe they were too stoned to give up finding new uses for coconuts.
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip...
Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island," is serving six months' unsupervised probation after allegedly being caught with marijuana in her car.
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.
The actress was arrested in her home state of Idaho back on October 18th, while on her way home from a surprise birthday party. Wells had been pulled over by party-pooping Teton County Deputy Joseph Gutierrez, who noticed the tiny ship, uh, car was doing a little swerving.
When Gutierrez asked about a marijuana smell, Wells said she'd just given a ride to three hitchhikers and had dropped them off when they began smoking something. Gutierrez found half-smoked joints and two small cases used to store marijuana.
What a buzzkill, huh? He must've been a fan of I Dream of Jeannie.
The 69-year-old Wells, founder of the Idaho Film and Television Institute and organizer of the region's annual family movie festival called the Spud Fest, then failed a sobriety test.
Now, back to the title of this little celebrity cannabis number...
Why the "Part 2," you ask? Because of the link between this story, Wells and the "extracurricular activities" of Gilligan himself, the late Bob Denver.
In 1998, at the age of 63, Denver was charged with possession of 35 grams of marijuana, which he claimed at first to have obtained from his friend and former Gilligan co-star Dawn Wells, who played the sharp but innocent Mary Ann. But later in court, Denver refused to narc on Wells, testifying that "some crazy fan must have sent it" (along, presumably, with the 10 other grams of pot and three pipes found in a search of his home).
Jeez, first Moses, now Mary Ann...who will end up third in the SG Newswire Drug Story Trifecta? My money's on Thomas Edison. You'd have to be on something to come up with the light bulb. You heard it here first, kids.
thefreak always prefered Mary Ann over Ginger, despite his love of redheads. The fact she's a fan of the ganja pretty much clinches it.
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