Julie McCullough
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| Playboy centerfold appearance |
February 1986 |
|---|---|
| Birthplace | Honolulu, Hawaii, USA |
| Birthdate | January 30, 1965 |
| Measurements | 36D" - 24" - 35" |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in |
| Weight | 115 lbs. |
| Preceded by | Sherry Arnett |
| Succeeded by | Kim Morris |
Julie Michelle McCullough (born January 30, 1965 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA) is an American model, actress and stand-up comedienne. She is known primarily as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for February 1986, and for her role as Julie Costello in the sitcom Growing Pains, a role from which she was controversially fired due to her Playboy career.
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[edit] Early life
McCullough, who is of Irish descent, was named after a 1950’s song called “Oh Julie”. In addition to Honolulu, she grew up in several states, though she considers herself Southern, having attended high school in Poplar Bluff, Missouri and Allen, Texas. She has also lived in Huff Creek, West Virginia and Durham, North Carolina. [1]
[edit] Modeling career
McCullough worked as a model in her teens before moving to California, where she became a Playboy Playmate. In addition to the February 1986 issue of the magazine, she has appeared in several of its newsstand special editions, including:
- Playboy's Country Girls September 1986.
- Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 6: March 1989.
- Playboy's Bathing Beauties April 1990.
- Playboy's Nudes October 1990.
- Playboy's Nudes December 1992.
- Playboy's Classic Centerfolds June 1998.
- Playboy's Playmate Tests June 1999 - pages 28-33.
- Playboy's Celebrating Centerfolds Vol. 4: February 2000.
- Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 76: November 2000.
In 2004, McCullough voiced as herself in Playboy: The Mansion video game. In the game, McCullough was tutorial guide.
[edit] TV and movie work
[edit] The Growing Pains scandal
McCullough found work in a number of television and film projects, including Max Headroom, The Golden Girls, Superboy, 1st &Ten, and the 1988 horror movie remake The Blob, before landing the role of nanny Julie Costello on the American television series Growing Pains in 1989.
McCullough appeared in eight episodes until she was fired in 1990, which stemmed from series star Kirk Cameron’s conversion to evangelical Christianity, a conversion that served to alienate him from his fellow cast members, as he did not invite any of them to his wedding. He called for McCullough's termination because of his objections to her having posed nude in Playboy, and accused the show's producers of promoting pornography. A decade later, Cameron apologized to his TV family, attributing his prior behavior to his lack of maturity [2], but did not reconcile with McCullough, who remains critical of him, stating that she lost a lot from the public criticism she endured from the controversy. Although McCullough herself is Catholic, she has criticized the evangelical tv programming Cameron has produced, which she has viewed on one occasion, saying on her MySpace page:
| “ | He thinks if I read science books that I'm going to hell. [I would] rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints... the sinners are much more fun. And alot more interesting than some book-burner who is still having growing pains. I am at peace with God. Kirk thinks people like me are going to Hell, if I do then at least I'll go well informed and well read. | ” |
[edit] Current work
Having enjoyed doing comedy on stage her entire life, McCullough now works as a stand-up comedienne, and has performed at the Hollywood Improv, the Palms Hotel and Casino, and the Laugh Factory.
[edit] Personal life
McCullough married Canadian actor David Sutcliffe on November 10, 2001. They divorced in December 2003.
McCullough is a member of the social networking site MySpace, and according to Dave Itzkoff, writing in an article in the June 2006 Playboy magazine, "Playboy's unofficial ambassador to the MySpace nation."[4]
McCullough has been a vegetarian and animal rights advocate for “twenty years”, according to her MySpace bio.
McCullough is pro-choice on the issue of abortion, having discussed the matter on her MySpace blog.
She is a fan of the Dallas Cowboys.
She has been the topic of questions on the game show Jeopardy! four times.
Is close friends with Kendra of The Girls Next Door.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.myspace.com/juliemccullough
- ^ Ewald, Dan; "The Rebirth of Kirk Cameron"
- ^ McCullough, Julie; “Just sharing my thoughts”; McCullough discusses Cameron and her firing from “Growing Pains” on her MySpace blog. It cannot be linked due to the Wikipedia spamlist restrictions.
- ^ Itzkoff, Dave; Playboy magazine; June 2006; Pages 61, 62, 130-133
