Alison Arngrim guest on “If These Walls Could Talk” with hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss 08-21-24: Press Party

Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk,” live from Pangea Restaurant in NYC’s Lower Eastside, with their unique style of honest and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstories of celebrities, entertainers, artists, writers and performers, taking their audiences for a fantastic ride.

Alison Arngrim will be a special guest on “If These Walls Could Talk” with hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss on Wednesday, August 21, 2024 at 2pm ET live from the infamous Pangea Restaurant.

Wendy Stuart is an author, celebrity interviewer, model, filmmaker, and co-host of If These Walls Could Talk, TriVersity Talk, a weekly web series featuring special guests who discuss their lives, activism, and pressing issues within the LGBTQ community.

Tym Moss is a popular singer, actor, and radio and television host from New York who recently starred in the critically acclaimed hit indie film “JUNK.”

New York Times Best Selling author of Confessions of A Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated, Alison Arngrim is best known to audiences worldwide for her portrayal of the unbelievably nasty “Nellie Oleson” on the beloved, long-running hit television series Little House On The Prairie, and continues to entertain audiences with her many film, television, stage and multimedia appearances. Her one-woman show Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, which began in 2002 at New York’s Club Fez, has now become a worldwide phenomenon, having been performed to packed houses in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Green Bay, San Francisco, Seattle and in France, where Arngrim performs entirely in French to a room full of people in her all-French version, Confessions d’une Garce de La Prairie et La Malle aux Tresors de Nellie Oleson. As a stand-up comedian, Arngrim has headlined nightclubs such as the Laugh Factory, the Comedy Store, and the Improv in Los Angeles; as well as the Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York City and various comedy venues across the United States and Canada. She is currently starring in two comedy series pilots: Life Interrupted, as the ex-wife of commercial child star Mason Reese, with Erin Murphy (“Bewitched”) as her new wife and Dawn Wells (“Gilligan’s Island”) as her mother, as well as CPR – Child Performers Resurrection Talent Agency, as a former child star gone wrong who tries to save herself and her assorted misfit co-workers by opening a talent agency. Arngrim has ridiculed her “ex-child star” status on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show during their month-long parody, “Hollywood Survivor,” and remains a frequent interview subject for everything from A&E, “E! Entertainment, TV Land and VH-1, to CNN and the Travel Channel. The TV Land network honored her immortal image as TV’s baddest bitch by naming her the winner of their 2006 award for “Character Most Desperately In Need Of A Time Out.” She starred in the heartwarming, gay, Christmas cult classic Make the Yuletide Gay, as the domineering “Heather Mancuso.” Her other television and film appearances include Livin’ the Dream, Tinder & Grinder, The Bilderberg Club, For the Love of May with Ru Paul and Patricia Neal, and The Last Place On Earth with Billy Dee Williams and Phyllis Diller. In 2007, she began her foray into French cinema with the role of “Edith” in Jean Pierre Mocky’s French detective comedy Le Deal. Her stage work includes The Vagina Monologs, Sirena: Queen of the Tango, Dear Brutus, The Wool Gatherer, the French bedroom comedy In One Bed And Out The Other, Michael Kearns’ AIDS/US II, “Rita” in the GLAAD Award-nominated 2005 production of Last Summer At Bluefish Cove, the slightly eccentric “Reverend Pat Miass” in Joni and Gina’s Wedding, and the Ovation Award-nominated musical drama Flirting with Morty as the abusive, vulgar, and tragic Ray Lee. In her spare time, she takes tourists on the cheerful comedy excursion Nasty Nellie’s Tour of Hollywood (seen on Dearly Departed Tours), where she simultaneously enlightens and amuses passengers with behind-the-scenes stories from both Hollywood history and her own life.

Never forgetting her Prairie roots, Arngrim enjoys visiting various Little House on the Prairie historical sites several times a year for educational events and fan gatherings. She is a frequent visitor to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in the real Walnut Grove, Minnesota, as well as Green Bay, Wisconsin’s Heritage Hills, Mumford’s Genesee Country Village, Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home and Museum in Mansfield, Missouri, and many, many others.
Arngrim has a long history of activism. In 1986, when her friend and “Little House Husband” co-star, Steve Tracy, died from complications of HIV/AIDS, Arngrim immediately began volunteering with AIDS Project Los Angeles. Her duties ranged from working on the Southern California AIDS Hotline and the APLA Food Bank, (APLA’s Necessities of Life Program,) to chairing the steering committee of the volunteer speakers bureau and developing “Safer Sex” workshops. She has provided AIDS education to doctors, nurses, prisoners, service clubs, churches, department stores and schools, written AIDS educational articles for Frontiers and Designers West magazines, and hosted APLA’s educational cable television show, AIDS Vision, for seven years. In 1992, Joel Wachs presented Arngrim with a Los Angeles City Council resolution commending her for her work on behalf of people living with HIV and AIDS. From 1989 to 1993, Arngrim was Program Manager at Tuesday’s Child, an organization that helps children and families affected by HIV/AIDS. From 1989 to 2003, she served as both host and producer for the comedy stage at the AIDS Project Los Angeles Annual Summer Party (held on the backlot of Universal Studios), where she raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for people living with HIV through an evening of raucous entertainment featuring well-known comedians. She currently serves as California Chair, National Spokesperson, and Founding Board Member of the National Advisory Board of The National Association to Protect Children, or PROTECT.org, and works to give children a legal and political voice in the fight against child abuse. As an activist for the advancement of child protection laws, Arngrim has spoken before the California State Senate and worked on legislative and political campaigns in several states, including Virginia and New York, in addition to PROTECT’s work on federal legislation in Washington, D.C. Arngrim has appeared on numerous television news programs discussing the legal and political issues surrounding child sexual abuse and exploitation. She came forward to tell the world about the sexual abuse she suffered in her own life during her 2004 interview on Larry King Live. She continues to be interviewed about this and other topics on Nancy Grace, CNN’s Showbiz Tonight, The Insider, Court TV and Bill O’Reilly’s The Factor.

Arngrim currently lives in the Tujunga wilderness with her husband of over 20 years, musician Bob Schoonover (of the rock and roll band “Catahoula”) and their angry cat, Clarice. She is proud that so many people enjoyed hating her as a girl and is more than happy to give them the opportunity to do so in the future.

Watch Alison Arngrim on “If These Walls Could Talk” with hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP75Tsr9CL4

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