The season premiere of ABC’s Abbott Elementary opens with teachers in the faculty lounge (breakroom?) watching Jim Gardner on Action news
ABC-6 (Action News) reported yesterday that – Action News’ very own Jim Gardner made a heartwarming cameo in the pilot episode of ABC’s “Abbott Elementary.”
According to Action News – “Abbott Elementary” is the brainchild of Quinta Brunson, a West Philadelphia native who created the show and stars in it too. Brunson said she is a huge fan of Jim’s and was giddy he agreed to be in the episode. “He’s fantastic. It was so sweet. I almost passed out I was so star-struck,” she said.
In the episode, a group of teachers discuss how they can’t get through their day without watching Action News.
One teacher even seems to have a crush on Jim. “I’m a proud, married, Christian woman, and I love my husband, but there is something about that Jim Gardner, that non-region diction,” she said.
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