{"id":144693,"date":"2020-12-30T23:03:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T20:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/gilligans-island-star-dawn-wells-dead-at-82-after-covid-19-battle\/"},"modified":"2020-12-30T23:03:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T20:03:48","slug":"gilligans-island-star-dawn-wells-dead-at-82-after-covid-19-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gilligans-island-star-dawn-wells-dead-at-82-after-covid-19-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"#’Gilligan\u2019s Island’ star Dawn Wells dead at 82 after COVID-19 battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’Gilligan\u2019s Island’ star Dawn Wells dead at 82 after COVID-19 battle<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Dawn Wells, who played the beloved girl-next-door Mary Ann Summers on \u201cGilligan\u2019s Island,\u201d died Wednesday in Los Angeles after battling COVID-19. She was 82.<\/p>\n

Her publicist, Harlan Boll, announced her death, according to Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A Reno, Nevada, native, Wells was Miss Nevada in the 1959 Miss America pageant before she was cast in \u201cGilligan\u2019s Island\u201d in 1964. The Sherwood Schwartz-helmed sitcom ran on CBS until 1967 and included several TV movies<\/a> and spinoff series.<\/p>\n

She also wrote a 2014 memoir, \u201cWhat Would Mary Ann Do?: A Guide to Life<\/a>,\u201d that riffed on her sweet and lovable character. Russell Johnson, who played the Professor on the show, captured the soul of Mary Ann in the foreword of the book.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe love Mary Ann because she is the future, the hope of our world,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe youngest of the castaways, Mary Ann has her entire life in front of her. Watching her unfailing good cheer, her optimism is never in question. We love her because we need her emotional support and her belief that all will turn out well \u2026 We love Mary Ann because of Dawn Wells.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The cast of \u201cGilligan\u2019s Island\u201d: Russell Johnson, Dawn Wells, Bob Denver, Tina Louise, Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer and Alan Hale Jr.<\/figcaption>
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Tina Louise, who played Ginger, is the last living member of the \u201cGilligan\u2019s Island\u201d cast. She is 86.<\/p>\n

Wells also app<\/a>eared in \u201c77 Sunset Strip<\/a>,\u201d \u201cMaverick,\u201d \u201cBonanza,\u201d \u201cThe Joey Bishop Show\u201d and \u201cHawaiian Eye.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dawn Wells<\/span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2018, Wells took a tumble and found herself inundated with medical and tax bills. A friend created a GoFundMe account for the actress, USA Today reported<\/a> at the time, though she denied being \u201cdead broke.\u201d She ended up getting nearly<\/a> $200,000 in donations, taking to Facebook<\/a> to thank fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere did the time go? I don\u2019t know how this happened,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI thought I was taking all the proper steps to ensure my golden years. Now, here I am, no family, no husband, no kids and no money. I\u2019m grateful that God has given me so many friends and fans who care, or it would all be too \u2026 overwhelming \u2026 I am grateful to any of my fans who are willing to offer support.\u201d<\/p>\n

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“#’Gilligan\u2019s Island’ star Dawn Wells dead at 82 after COVID-19 battle” Dawn Wells, who played the beloved girl-next-door Mary Ann Summers on \u201cGilligan\u2019s Island,\u201d died Wednesday in Los Angeles after battling COVID-19. She was 82. Her publicist, Harlan Boll, announced her death, according to Variety. A Reno, Nevada, native, Wells was Miss Nevada in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/dawn-wells-dead-09.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[88149,70255,88225,77262],"class_list":["post-144693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-30-20","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-dawn-wells","tag-gilligans-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}