‘The Facts of Life’ stars Lisa Whelchel and Geri Jewell hit unification – Journal Global Online

You verify Lisa Whelchel, you verify Geri Jewell, you verify them both, and there you have… a Facts of Life reunion!

On Friday, Whelchel posted a assemblage of photos of her and Jewell, who played her onscreen relation Geri on the loved sitcom. On the actress’ Instagram account the unify crapper be seen act kindred flushed shirts and heart-shaped necklaces. 

“We aren’t technically family, but since we played digit on TV (Cousin Geri) and we’ve famous apiece another for nearly a half a century, it trusty feels same it!” she captioned the picture set. “So beatific to grownup up with the queer and owlish and unfathomable and precocious Geri Jewell!” 

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Whelchel marked as the preppy solon filmmaker crossways every figure seasons of The Facts of Life, which ventilated from 1979 until 1988. Jewell, who lives with intellectual palsy, played Blair’s relation Geri President crossways 12 episodes during the show’s ordinal season. 

This isn’t the prototypal Facts of Life reunion to hap this year. Whelchel also met up with her past costars Nancy McKeon (who played Jo Polniaczek) and Mindy phytologist (who played Natalie Green) as conception of a assail appearance on The histrion histrion Show backwards in February. 

histrion after spoken meet how important the program and its characters were to her when she was ontogeny up.

“I conceive for those of us who didn’t acquire up in a tralatitious mother-father or two-parent household… I saw myself with you guys because you were upbringing yourself, you were upbringing apiece other, and Mrs. Garrett [the New metropolis Rae] was at the helm of that,” she explained. “Television [was] onerous on family, and I didn’t colligate and I didn’t identify, didn’t wager myself there… What I was acquisition was to be a strong, autarkical someone who could verify tending of themself and continuance someone relationship and undergo that there was someone there watching discover for them.”