Lori Loughlin snags first acting gig since college admissions scandal

Vancouver, British Columbia - Lori Loughlin will return to acting for the first time in two and half years after the college bribery scheme.

On Tuesday, it was announced that Lori Loughlin will return to acting for the first time in two years after her 2019 arrest.
On Tuesday, it was announced that Lori Loughlin will return to acting for the first time in two years after her 2019 arrest.  © IMAGO / UPI Photo

The disgraced star will appear on When Hope Calls, despite being fired from the spinoff series, When Calls the Heart.

On Tuesday, Bill Abbott, the president and CEO of GAC Media, confirmed that Laughlin would be getting a second chance.

She will reprise her role as Abigail Stanton and will appear in the first two episodes of the second season.

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This is the first gig for the Full House alum in over two years following her role in the college admissions scandal.

In 2019, the 57-year-old and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, were among 50 individuals charged with fraud and bribery. The couple paid $500,000 in bribes to ensure that their daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Giannulli, were accepted into the University of Southern California as crew recruits – though neither one of them even played the sport.

Laughlin was eventually sentenced to two months in prison, which she completed by December 2020.

Currently, she's on a two-year supervised release that will conclude in December 2022 while her husband is completing his five-month sentence at home.

The shocking scandal caused very public fallout for the corner-cutting celeb, leading to several endorsements dropping her and being fired from the Netflix series, Fuller House.

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