Lori Loughlin will play a police lieutenant on On Call, marking her first recurring role since serving prison time as a result of a college admissions scandal in 2019.
Loughlin, 60, who served almost two months in prison for her involvement in the late 2020 scandal, will play the role of Lieutenant Bishop in the Dick Wolf series, which begins airing in January on Prime Video.
The Full House actress, who played Rebecca ‘Aunt Becky’ Katsopolis on the ABC comedy and its Netflix reboot, will be joined on the upcoming show by Eriq La Salle, Troian Bellisario and Brandon Larracuente.
The series marks the first scripted streaming effort from Wolf Entertainment, the powerhouse behind the Law & Order, Chicago and FBI franchises.
Series co-creator Elliot Wolf said Entertainment Weekly Wednesday that Loughlin “was honestly a pleasure to work with” on the series.
Lori Loughlin, 60, will play a police lieutenant on On Call, marking her first recurring role since serving prison time as a result of a college admissions scandal in 2019.
Loughlin photographed at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles for an event on Tuesday
“As soon as she accepted the role, she was totally on board,” Wolf said. “She wanted to do the research, she wanted to embody the character.”
Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, 61, are five years away from their April 2019 indictment.
The couple was charged in connection with allegations that they paid admissions officer Rick Singer $500,000 to have USC recruit their daughters Isabella Rose, 26, and Olivia Jade, 25, to the school’s rowing team. even though they had no experience in the sport.
In May 2020, the couple pleaded guilty in connection with conspiracy charges in the case.
Loughlin received a two-month jail sentence along with a $150,000 fine and 150 hours of community service after pleading guilty. She began her sentence in a federal prison in Dublin, California, in October 2020 and was released in December.
Giannulli received a five-month sentence with a $250,000 fine and 250 hours of community service. He began his prison sentence in November 2020 and was transferred to house arrest in April 2021, approximately a month before his sentence ended.
Professionally, Loughlin’s legal problems kept her sidelined from the fifth season of Fuller House and her return to the small screen came in 2021 in a two-part Christmas special for the GAC network’s When Hope Calls.
The actress was the focal point of a story in the sixth episode of the twelfth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm that aired on March 10, parodying her legal mishap with Larry David.
Loughlin was photographed with her Full House co-star John Stamos during Tuesday’s event.
Loughlin was also photographed hugging Candace Cameron Bure in the process.
Troian Bellisario and Brandon Larracuente join Loughlin in the cast of On Call, set in Long Beach, California
She played a fictional version of herself, seeking David’s help to help her rejoin an exclusive golf club after she was kicked out following the scandal.
Curb executive producer Jeff Schaffer said THR At the time the show aired, I hoped the cameo would be a springboard for Loughlin’s return.
“It’s a great way to put the past behind you,” Schaffer said. “I hope it helps her career. She was great and I should work. She was really fun and wonderful to work with. People should see, ‘Oh, she’s so funny.’ He’s great at this stuff. So yeah, I hope he puts in the work because he deserves it.”
In April, Loughlin told First for Women magazine that Chumbawamba’s 1997 song, Tubthumping, was an inspiration to her when it came to facing adversity.
“Every day we run into different obstacles,” Loughlin said. ‘But, for me, it’s like that song says: ‘I get knocked down, but I get up again.’ Nobody said life was going to be very easy; We all make mistakes, but the important thing is to persevere.’
Loughlin told the publication that she tries to “be a forgiving person” and is “not someone who holds on to things.”
“Things happen to everyone,” Loughlin said. “We have all been in a position to ask for forgiveness, but to ask for it we must learn and know how to forgive as well.”
Loughlin said that “life is too short” to “hold on to negativity” and that “for your own health, you have to let things go.”