The Orangutan Incident

After I left the Golddiggers I joined the Beautiful Downtown Beauties on the last season of "Laugh-In". During that time the Dean Martin Show featured an exotic animal at the beginning of the show for Dean to interact with. Both shows were recorded at NBC Studios in Burbank.

I was walking through the walkway between sets and came across a trainer who was showing off a very nervous baby Orangutan. A crowd had gathered to admirer the little cutie. They say that animals are color blind . . . but that little Orangutan took one look at my red hair (a very close match), scurried through the crowd, ran up my leg and held on for dear life! There I was hugging the little guy, who obviously thought he had found his Mom!

I love Orangutans!