S20E09: Fantasy Island's Herve Villechaize

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

Comedy, History

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Content note: Discussion of suicide. For a vanishingly brief few years in the late 80s and early 90s, America fell in love with a French actor most known for his small stature and high excitement at new arrivals. When Herve Villechaize opened Aaron Spelling's Fantasy Island with the exclamation, "The plane! The plane!" the public knew they were about to treated to another charming adventure featuring stars old and new. Unfortunately for Herve, his ego and excesses - he claimed to have slept with 35 women while filming a Bond movie in the 70s, during his first marriage - would get in the way of his continuing stardom, and increasing medical complications would rob his life of joy. Want early, ad-free episodes, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Sponsors June’s Journey from Wooga. June needs your help, detective! Download June’s Journey for free today on iOS and Android! Download Lily’s Garden for free today on iOS and Andriod and discover how many mysteries and romance one garden can hold! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to [email protected] or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/TrashyDivorces. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships.
0:07.0	My name is Alicia and my trashy partner in crime Stacy.
0:11.0	Hello. Holy cats this week you're taking us back again to the magical time of Aaron Spelling's dominance
0:17.7	on American television.
0:19.3	That is correct.
0:20.5	Today we're going to talk about kind of a tragic figure, unfortunately, the actor Ervey Villacez, who played the character tattoo alongside Ricardo Montalbonne on TV's fantasy island. If you are of a certain age you know it well.
0:35.0	Oh, the plane, the plane.
0:36.6	Absolutely. On the one hand it's the improbable success story of a person who's
0:41.0	uniquely short stature made him stand out as an actor but also made him something of a punchline and on the other hand it's a very sad story about a person who's lofty but ultimately foiled ambitions, outrageous appetites, and increasingly
0:56.3	medically fraught life led to a tragic end.
1:00.0	And for those sensitive to such topics, Ervey Villaches did die by suicide,
1:04.8	and we'll let you know when we're getting to that section of the story.
1:08.2	Has anyone ever, though, been more excited about seeing an airplane than tattoo.
1:13.2	Definitely an aviation enthusiast.
1:16.6	Hey, Alicia, if we're going to get to Fantasy Island,
1:18.9	what do we have to do?
1:20.2	Let's go, go go. Stacy I know very, very little about Ervey personally, so I'm kind of excited about this story.
1:38.8	I also knew very, very little about him.
1:41.6	However, most of us who have fond memories, although mine are a bit fleeting,
1:45.6	I definitely remember, the plane, the plane.
1:47.9	Oh, it was can't miss television.
1:49.7	It was, yes, many, many years ago.
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