Curb Your EnthusiasmEP Says Lori Loughlin Was 'Totally Game' to Parody Her 2019 College Admissions Scandal Involvement

Mar. 15, 2025

Larry David and Lori Loughlin on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’.Photo:John Johnson/HBO

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Turns outLori Loughlinhas a sense of humor when it comes to her infamous involvement in the 2019college admissions scandal.

TheFull Housealum, 59, was the latest celebrity to make an appearance on Larry David’sCurb Your Enthusiasm. Sunday’s episode saw Loughlin play a heightened version of herself who is rejected from country clubs around Los Angeles due to her tarnished reputation post-scandal.

David eventually sponsors Loughlin and gets her approved for membership after performing a motivational speech. When the actress eventually cheats in golf, lies to redeem handicap benefits and gets the best tee times through NSFW ways, David regrets advocating for her membership.

Lori Loughlin on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’.John Johnson/HBO

Jeff Schaffer, executive producer forCurb Your Enthusiasm, revealed that Loughlin was more than enthusiastic about parodying herself on the show’s 12th and final season.

“This was an idea that we loved from a writer namedTeddy Bressman. But it’s not going to be funny with some sort of thinly veiled surrogate. It only works if we get Lori,” Schaffer recalled toThe Hollywood Reporter. “So we called her manager up, who loved it, and who then talked to Lori, and she said: ‘I’m in, I’m totally game.’ And she was. She was so great."

“Everything we threw at her, she was game to do. She makes the episode. I’m so glad she wanted to do it,” he added.

ThoughCurbwriters had various ideas of how to incorporate the actress in the story, they asked Loughlin if she would even be open to making an appearance before writing a script.

“We pitched the general concept of: ‘You get into the club, and then we find out how ultra-competitive you are, and how you’re willing to bend the rules or break them,'” he recalled. “And then once she agreed, we really started hammering out the details of the script.”

“She saw how funny it was and was into it immediately,” Schaffer added.

In May 2020, Loughlinadmittedto one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, while her husband,Mossimo Giannulli, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and one count of honest services wire and mail fraud.

According to the criminal complaint against them, the couple was accused of paying $500,000 to Rick Singer and Key Worldwide Foundation to falsely designate their daughters,Olivia Jade Giannulli, 21, andIsabella Rose Giannulli, 22, as recruits to the University of Southern California crew team, even though neither ever participated in the sport.

In August of the same year, Loughlin was sentenced totwo months in federal prisonwhile her husband received afive-month sentencefor their role in the scandal. The actress was eventually released from prison in December 2020 after serving almost two months of her sentence.

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Curb Your Enthusiasmairs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on HBO.

source: people.com