Jill Whelan
Jill Whelan (born September 29, 1966) is an American actress. After working in television commercials, she landed her breakthrough role playing Vicki Stubing, the daughter of Captain Stubing, in six of the nine seasons of the American television series The Love Boat (1977–1986). She later guest starred on the revival Love Boat: The Next Wave.
Jill Whelan

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- Guildford College · The Buckley School
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- English
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Jill Whelan (born September 29, 1966) is an American actress. After working in television commercials, she landed her breakthrough role playing Vicki Stubing, the daughter of Captain Stubing, in six of the nine seasons of the American television series The Love Boat (1977–1986). She later guest starred on the revival Love Boat: The Next Wave.
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Jill Whelan (born 1966) is an American actor, actress and film actor, among other activities. The actor was born in Oakland. Jill Whelan studied at Guildford College and The Buckley School. Languages used include English.
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Early life
Early life
She has had numerous guest roles in TV shows and played Lisa Davis in Airplane! In 2015, she was hired as a celebrations ambassador by Princess Cruises.
Jill Whelan was born in Oakland, California. After auditioning and appearing in a local production of The King and I at the age of 8, she sent her school picture to a San Francisco Talent Agency and landed a series of TV commercials. An M&M commercial got her noticed by producers, and she was cast in Friends (1979), which was quickly cancelled. Concurrently, at the age of 11, she was cast as Vicki, daughter of The Love Boat's Captain Stubing. She initially appeared on the show as a guest star, and later became a series regular. In 1984, Whelan graduated from the Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, California with a stint at Guildford College in Surrey, England where she studied English Literature before coming back to Los Angeles.
Career
Career
As well as starring in The Love Boat, Whelan made numerous guest appearances in TV shows including Fantasy Island (twice), Vegas, Trapper John, M.D., Matt Houston and Battle of the Network Stars. She also made guest appearances on game shows including Family Feud, Body Language and Super Password. In the 1980 disaster comedy film Airplane!, Whelan played the role of Lisa Davis, a heart transplant patient. In the mid-1980s, in Los Angeles, having returned from England and with The Love Boat coming to an end, Whelan moved to New York City and worked as an event producer at Madison Square Garden, where she helped set up acts. In 1999, Whelan left acting, started working as an investigative producer at the Los Angeles television station KCOP-TV, and later became a radio show host for Talk Radio 1210 WPHT in Philadelphia. On November 25, 2001, Whelan appeared on an episode of The Weakest Link, a trivia game show hosted by Anne Robinson. Whelan competed against other celebrity 1970s TV stars, including Mackenzie Phillips, Nell Carter, Cindy Williams, Joan Van Ark, Erin Moran, Erik Estrada, and Fred Rerun Berry. She outlasted the others, winning $57,000 for her charity. On September 10, 2008, Whelan appeared with several other cast members from the movie Airplane! in a reunion segment on NBC's Today Show. In October 2008, she made her New York City cabaret debut with her one-woman show Jill Whelan: An Evening in Dry Dock at the Metropolitan Room. From September to November 2011, Whelan appeared in the British farce Move Over Mrs. Markham at Stage West Theatre Restaurant in the Toronto, Ontario area. Whelan was set to replace Mark Thompson, who retired on August 17, 2012, after 25 years co-hosting The Mark & Brian Show on KLOS in Los Angeles, but during Thompson's final broadcast, co-host Brian Phelps announced that he, too, was quitting KLOS. In 2013, Whelan became co-host with Brian Phelps of The Brian and Jill Show. The two share a love for improvisational comedy, and have created hundreds of characters together that they have performed on stage during improvisation shows and in sketches on their podcast. Whelan is mentioned in "Dead Man Sliding", the tenth episode of the third season of Sliders, as an actress who never had relevance in the dimension of the protagonists.
Personal life
Personal life
During the early 1980s, Whelan served as a national spokeswoman for First Lady Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" anti-drug campaign. Whelan met her first husband, Brad St. John, as an associate producer for KCOP-TV in Los Angeles, shortly after leaving Madison Square Garden. They married in December 1993. Soon after their wedding, she became pregnant with her first son, Harrison. Whelan divorced St. John in 2001. Returning to the East Coast, she married her second husband, Michael Chaykowsky, in April 2004. Her second son, Grant, was born in 2006. In 2014, Whelan filed for divorce from Chaykowsky. In 2015, Whelan was hired by Princess Cruises as a celebrations ambassador. Whelan married former Denver Broncos quarterback Jeff Knapple in 2017.
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Magician Kyle Marlett performing for Jill Whelan from the Love Boat on Pop's Don't Blink
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Magician Kyle Marlett with Jill Whelan from The Love Boat
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- 1.via AP Newswire. Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 26-Oct. 2. Independent. September 20, 2021.
- 2.Huang, Shannon. Meet Jill Whelan – host of Ryman Arts' 25th Anniversary Celebration!. Ryman Arts. April 7, 2015.
- 3.Dodrill, Tara. 'Love Boat' Child Star Broke: Jill Whelan Seeking Support From Estranged Husband. www.inquistr.com. January 8, 2016.
- 4.Leszczak, Robert. Single Season Sitcoms, 1948–1979: A Complete Guide. Mc Farland & Co Inc. 52. 2012. 978-0-7864-6812-6.
- 5.Oates, Marie-Louise. Buckley School: A 50 Year Update. The Los Angeles Times. 104. November 3, 1982.
- 6.Lukanic, Steven A. Film Actors Guide. Lone Eagle. 417. 1991. 978-0-943728-38-4.
- 7.Sackett, Susan. Prime-time hits: television's most popular network programs, 1950 to the present. Bpi Communications. 1993. 978-0-8230-8392-3.
- 8.BWW News Desk. THE LOVE BOAT and AIRPLANE'S Jill Whelan Begins at Metropolitan Room Oct. 6. BroadwayWorld.com.
- 9.Lycan, Gary. When Jill Whelan met Brian Phelps, it was 'instant chemistry'. Orange County Register. September 27, 2012.
- 10.Ulster, Laurie. 'The Love Boat' Cast: Where Are They Now?. Biography. November 23, 2014.
- 11.Jennifer Wulff. Beyond the Sea. People 55/2001. June 11, 2001.
- 12.L. Redwood, Tina. Archive – Passages. PEOPLE.com. April 19, 2004.
- 13.'Love Boat' Star Marriage Capsizes. TMZ. June 26, 2014.
- 14.Tore, Ozgur. Jill Whelan to represent Princess Cruises' celebrations. FTN News. May 7, 2015.
- 15.Rivas, Aby. 'The Love Boat' Jill Whelan Met Her Third Husband through Her High School Prom Date. Amo Mama. January 18, 2020.
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