Why did Connie Sellecca's career go straight down the shitter?

Hotel burned down. Is she still married to John Tesh?

Yes she is, but Toyota stopped making the car they named for her.

I don't think she has to worry about getting her tail to the set at 5 am anymore. Tesh is worth many millions...

Miss her Lifetime-type TV movies where she'd fight the terrorists or be a scientist with an asteroid hurtling toward earth.

How the hell does John Tesh have millions?

Because he had a long career on a successful show, R3?

R3 he has sold millions of new age albums and tours his music

I think they also have a nationally syndicated radio show. I’m sure that is a fairly lucrative revenue stream.

Before John Tesh, she was married to hunky Gil Gerard.

She was too Jesus-y.

Her stunning lack of talent could be the reason!

John Tesh has a weirdly shaped head, like Chris Meloni and Bert the muppet.

John Tesh has apparently made a staggering amount of money off of his music.

She was so pretty.

If she were around now, they’d have her be a platinum blonde. Sometimes dark hair is better with blue eyes, but every frau wants to be a blonde.

Wait, is she alive or dead?

Dead R14. John Tesh killed her by forcing her to listen to his music in a locked room

When did John divorce Mary Hart and hook up with this floozy?

R16 Mary Hart is a cunt. No wonder Tesh dumped her ass

She couldn't act

Tesh fucked Oprah back in the day.

Oprah back in the day:

Her nose job is too distracting.

John Tesh and Oprah fucking. That's not a mental picture I wanted.

Oprah back in the Day is my new band name.

She did that P.S. I Luv You show around 1991-1992 with Greg Evigan. The show bombed.

This is why I come here. If there is one person on the planet checking for Connie Sellecca, of course it's someone on the Datalounge.

It's amazing who you hear about on DL. Obscure actresses from decades ago you've either never heard of or nobody's thought about in ages. I had to look up Connie Selleca, and I vaguely remember her from my childhood.

When I had a Toyota Celica, I named it Connie.

Serving 80s realness.

I had a Tom Celica.

She was very pretty.

She was a model before she started acting.

I know her best from her starring roles in those made-for-TV, woman-in-peril Sunday night movies.

“Flying High” (1978)

Didn't she "reclaim" her virginity?

Yep, she's a whore, darlin'.

her dedicated one of his albums to her but referred to her as ‘Constanza’ or ‘Concetta’ (can’t remember which one) which seemed very off-brand for her, like he was talking about a different person. I didn’t realize she was so ethnic.

I had a Corolla but I sold it to Carolla.

She was the actual Greatest American Hero.

Totally got her confused with Sela Ward and Daphne Zuniga.

She had a clothing collection named after her at Montgomery Ward, her picture was on every hang tag on those polyester garments.

R34 I was surprised to learn she’s from The Bronx! She and Tesh didn’t have sex until they were married (supposedly)

I don't know her....

In some early pics I mix her up with Veronica Hamel. But that one was taller, and a much more successful model than Sellecca before they both turned to acting.

They look similar.

Omg - this made me think of an 80’s era made for TV movie about the Hawaiian airlines flight where the roof ripped off mid-flight. Connie played the female copilot that helped save and land the plane.

Her career went out the roof with the stewardess.

Her Pantene Pro V commercial persuaded my mother into trying out the product for a while.

R43 Well, she was no Sully Sullenberger!

[quote]She and Tesh didn’t have sex until they were married (supposedly)

Her rationale was that she had told her son that he should abstain from sex until marriage. She thought it would be hypocritical to engage in premarital sex herself. I think they both should have been getting laid, but I respect the discipline in her reasoning.

Waiting until marriage, my god. What if the guy has a tiny dick? What if he's a lousy lay? What a terrible thing to wait for.

Oh, that's right. If you don't wait until marriage God and Jesus will be very angry with you and do something bad.

My cousin was a PA for John and Connie in the late 90s. He said John was nice but Connie was “the C word”. I never thought I’d hear my born again cousin come that close to saying “cunt”.

In toto, to answer OP’s question, Connie Sellecca was a very pretty TV actress with little discernible personality.

She did very mainstream, undemanding shows in her heyday.

Hollywood has always needed some safe, non threatening starlets like her on hand, willing to take a backseat to the male lead.

I wonder if John Tesh eats her pussy on the reg?

I preferred Theresa Saldana

[quote]It's amazing who you hear about on DL. Obscure actresses from decades ago you've either never heard of or nobody's thought about in ages.

Who you callin' obscure?

Well, I can tell you that he had an unreasonable fear of the black cat.

OP, who will you post about next? You've already started these threads on Bruce Willis, Dennis Quaid, Laura Branigan. How about "why did OP's posts go straight down the shitter?"

Was she the one who was on that show "Providence?"

Melina Kanadaredes.

R37? The DL gods have already been awaken from their cultural slumber with Connie. Now you bring up the great Zuniga? SHIT. We're all in trouble now.

Isn’t she a Republican Handmaiden?

Bette Davis and Connie

That was supposed to be Erin Moran’s breakout star vehicle 🌟🚗

Oddly R58, she may or may not be. Tesh is definitely Republican through and through, but as late as the mid-1990s (granted, nearly 30 years ago), she was still a Democrat, giving press articles about them the old "She's a Dem, he's Republican...how do they make it work?" angle.

1) how in the world do you go from sex on a stick Gil Gerard (the stuff of wet dreams and youthful boners as buck rogers!) to john tesh! aarf! aarf!

2) sellecca also co-starred with 1970's beefy jack off fantasy Reb Brown in 2 of his cheesy late 1970's captain america tv movies...

They have some life hack show or they used to.

Who here has "Hotel, the Complete Series" on DVD?

[Quote] I didn’t realize she was so ethnic.

The old fashioned triangle nosejob didn't give it away?