CBS ‘ Elsbeth used Matthew BroderickThe character of the configuration for a joke on Felicity HuffmanInvolvement in the college admissions scandal.
During Thursday, February 20, episode, Broderick, 62, played an education consultant named Lawrence, who promises a future of the Ivy League to well -paid customers with the help of an assistant – played by the real son actor James Wilkie Broderick.
“Schools reprimand. They try to be more meritocratic. It is over time when a simple donation of 10 million guaranteed you a first year of the first year, “said Lawrence to the parents of the future of their child in the opening scene. “In the current climate, Outmatch Educational Consulting is a real good deal. You don’t want to start too late, then panic the last year and end up sharing a prison cell with a desperate housewife. »»
The shaded line has referred to the role of Huffman as Lynette on Desperate housewives, which was broadcast on ABC from 2004 to 2012. Huffman, 62, made the headlines when she was arrested under the threat of a firearm by FBI agents in 2019 for her involvement in the sadly Famous scandal of admissions to college, which was nicknamed Operation Varsity Blues.
Lori Loughlin, Felicity Huffman and several coaches and college officials were charged in the National Scandal of Admission to the College on March 12, 2019 – and the convictions of fallout and prison are still the headlines. According to court documents, the Alun de Full House and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, “agreed to pay bribes totaling $ 500,000 in exchange […]
The actress paid $ 15,000 to falsify the results of the SAT scores of her daughter Sophia, and was one of the 50 people charged for crimes. After his arrest, Huffman pleaded guilty to accusations of conspiracy in order to commit fraud by mail and honest services by fraud by mail. She served 11 days in prison in October 2019, paid a fine of $ 30,000 and carried out 250 hours of community service for her crimes.
Huffman’s husband, William H. MacyWith whom she shares the Sophia girls, now aged 24, and Georgia, now 22, has never been charged with the case. She broke her silence in December 2023 when she thought about the “eternal shame” that she felt after her involvement in the scandal.
“I felt like I had to give my daughter a chance in the future,” Huffman told ABC-7 Eyewitness News on the drama. “And so it was a bit like the future of my daughter, which meant that I had to break the law.”
Huffman thought she was a “bad mother” if she didn’t help her daughter, adding: “She was going”, can we have ice after? I’m afraid of the test. What can we do who is fun? And I kept thinking: “Go back, go back”. And to my eternal shame, I did not do it.
She continued: “I thought it was a hoax [when I was getting arrested]. I literally turned to one of the people of the FBI, in a flak jacket and a pistol, and I said: “Is it a joke?” “”
More recently, Huffman has thought about how his life has changed in the years that followed the drama. “It was difficult. A bit like your old life is dead and you died with it, ”she explained to The guardian In February 2024. “I am lucky to have a family and love and means, so I had a place to land.”
Huffman expressed his gratitude to his family for being standing near them.
“I walk in the room with. I did it. It’s in black and white, ”she said. “”[But] As long as my children are doing well and my husband is fine, I feel like I’m fine. “”
Elsbeth Area on Thursday CBS at 10 p.m. he. New episodes broadcast the next day on Paramount +.
