Gossip: Fred Willard
The Best in Show actor was arrested last week for lewd conduct.
Actor Fred Willard was arrested last week for lewd conduct, said EOnline.com. The Best in Show actor, 72, was collared in an adult-movie theater by cops for allegedly masturbating during a film. Prosecutors agreed not to charge Willard—who was subsequently fired by PBS as narrator of the show Market Warriors—if he completes a diversion program for sex counseling.
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