LOS ANGELES — Three original "Charlie's Angels" stars — Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, and Cheryl Ladd — reunited Monday, April 6, for the PaleyFest 50th anniversary celebration of the TV classic series that dominated TV from 1976 to 1981.
But there was one major Angel missing from the Dolby Theatre stage — Farrah Fawcett, who left her role as Jill Munroe on the ABC hit in 1977 after just one season and died in 2009, at age 62.
Ladd, 74, recalled to USA TODAY on the red carpet that she wore a shirt with the words "Farrah Fawcett-Minor" for her first day on the set as Kris Munroe, replacing the departed superstar (who went by the married name of Fawcett-Majors at the time).
"I knew that there was nobody going to replace Farrah," Ladd said. "I made a joke of myself. I wasn't sure that everybody was going to accept me. And everyone went, 'Farrah would have done something like that.'"
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