Julie McCullough

Infobox Playboy Playmate
name = Julie Michelle McCullough


imagesize = 150px
caption =
issue = February 1986
birthname =
birthplace = Honolulu, Hawaii
birthdate = Birth date and age|1965|1|30|df=yes
bust = 36D"
waist = 24"
hips = 35"
height = height|ft=5|in=7
weight = convert|115|lb|kg st|abbr=on|lk=on
preceded = Sherry Arnett
succeeded = Kim Morris

Julie Michelle McCullough (born January 30 1965) is an American model, actress and stand-up comedienne. She was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for February 1986, and played "Julie Costello" on "Growing Pains" until she was fired for having posed in "Playboy".

Early life

McCullough, who is of Irish descent, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and named after a 1950s 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. [ [http://www.myspace.com/juliemccullough Myspace page] ]

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 1985 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. 4, November 1988.
* "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 - pp. 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 "" video game. In the game, McCullough was tutorial guide.

TV and movie work

The "Growing Pains" scandal

McCullough found work in a number of television and film projects, including "Max Headroom", "The Golden Girls","Superboy" and the 1988 horror movie remake "The Blob", before landing the role of nanny "Julie Costello" on "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, according to "The E! True Hollywood Story" episode focusing on the show, 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 [ [http://www.christianitytoday.com/tc/2003/002/1.20.html Ewald, Dan; "The Rebirth of Kirk Cameron"] ] , 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 television programming Cameron has produced, which she has viewed on one occasion, saying on her MySpace page:

Current work

Having enjoyed doing comedy on stage her entire life, McCullough now works as a stand-up comedian, and has performed at the Hollywood Improv, the Palms Hotel and Casino, and the Laugh Factory.

McCullough has appeared on the E! reality show "The Girls Next Door". She appeared in "Under the Covers", the ninth episode of the first season, [imdb name| name = Julie McCullough|id=0567204] which aired in October 2005, and "May the Horse Be With You", the second episode of the third season, which aired in March 2007. [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468424/episodes#season-3 Episode list for "The Girls Next Door" at the Internet Movie Database] ] She also appeared on an episode of "Scott Baio Is 45...and Single", in which star and ex-boyfriend Scott Baio attended one of McCullough's comedy shows in an attempt to learn why he was still single and afraid of commitment. She responded that this was due to his infidelity.

Personal life

McCullough married Canadian actor David Sutcliffe on November 10 2001; they divorced in December 2003.Fact|date=January 2008

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." [Itzkoff, Dave; Playboy magazine; June 2006; pp. 61, 62, 130-133]

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 close friends with Kendra Wilkinson of "The Girls Next Door". ["The Girls Next Door"; Season 3, Episode 2: "May the Horse Be with You"]

References

External links

* [http://www.playboy.com/playmates/directory/198602.html Julie McCullough's Playboy Data Sheet]
* [http://www.myspace.com/juliemccullough Julie McCullough's Myspace page]