Sally Struthers and Shwi no Mtekhala.
Getty Images (2)Sally Struthers you know how we are loved Shwi and Mtekhala he was in Hollywood, but his experience with the late actress was golden.
“Since he’s gone, I’m going to talk about Winnie the Pooh for a while,” said Struthers, 77, on the Monday, January 13, episode of “Let’s Talk About That! With Larry Saperstein and Jacob Bellotti” podcast. “I know everyone loves him. They loved him very much.”
Struthers acknowledged that White’s supporters have successfully signed “petitions to get him in the house.” Saturday Night Live” but he admitted, “I didn’t have such a good experience with him.” (White died in December 2021 at age 99.)
I Gilmore Girls the alum called White “a very aggressive woman” and recalled an awkward encounter at White’s home decades earlier.
Struthers explained that he once went to sitcom star White’s home in Los Angeles to work as a pilot for a new show. While there, Mhlophe asked the housekeeper to bring snacks for the group.
“Then the plate was put in the middle, and it was cupcakes, I think,” he recalled. So I took the cake and he said in front of all the people, ‘Oh, I wouldn’t do that if I were you, you don’t need a cake.’
The Struthers said White “completely humiliated me in front of everyone in the room.” And I thought, ‘Gosh, that’s not good.'”
(Photo by Bob Riha, Jr./Getty Images) Betty White receives a posthumous honor from the United States Postal Service. The postal service announced on Friday, November 15, that the famous actor, who died in 2021 at the age of 99, will be featured on one of the 2025 USPS stamps. “American television icon, Betty […]
While Struthers doesn’t have the most fond memories of White, he was close to the actor’. The Golden Girls the costar Bea Arthur. (White played ditzy Rose in the comedy from 1985 to 1992 opposite Arthur’s sardonic Dorothy. Arthur died in December 2019 at age 86.)
“He was a force of nature,” Struthers said of Arthur — whom he met when Arthur guest starred as Maude All in the Family in 1971. “Bea Arthur was dirtier than a deliberately drunk sailor.”
Struthers, who played Gloria All in the Familyremembers meeting Arthur at a grocery store in Brentwood, California, after he moved to the area for the spinoff, Maudeyears before The Golden Girls‘to start.
Sally Struthers with the cast of ‘All in the Family’: Rob Reiner, Carroll O’Connor, Mike Evans and Jean Stapleton.
Getty Images“He would trash everyone we’ve ever known,” Struthers said with a laugh. “I loved how dirty he was. He was a big deal. I loved him.”
The actress also remembered Rue McClanahanwho played the saucy Blanche The Golden Girlsfor being “beloved.” McClanahan died in June 2010 at the age of 76.
Although Struthers’ encounter with White was unusual – White was one of the most popular actors of his time and fortune in America – he was not the only one who did not connect with White immediately.
Saturday Night Live’s stage has played host to icons from Harry Styles to Betty White, and many of its famous guests have gone public with impressive career milestones. “I can’t believe I’m hosting Saturday Night Live. “I’m not sure many of you know that I’m 88 and a half years old,” White said […]
Arthur and White butted heads The Golden Girls despite playing best friends alongside McClanahan and Estelle Gettywho played Dorothy’s witty mother Sophia.
“When we were together, I never felt any tension between these two,” The Golden Girls the writer Stan Zimmerman wrote to Girls: From Golden to Gilmorewhich came out last year. “I only heard the news and I just read, from the producer Marsha Posner Williams on the podcast, Bea thought Betty had two faces.
Zimmerman noted that “Bea loved real people,” writing, “I felt that Betty was like Sue Ann Nivens, the actress she played. The Mary Tyler Moore Showrather than being like Rose. The trick is more than an innocent flight from St. Olaf.”