Alison Arngrim Reveals ‘Little House On The Prairie’ Secrets | Megyn Kelly TODAY
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- Actress Alison Arngrim has fully embraced her former role as mean girl Nellie Oleson on the beloved TV show “Little House on the Prairie,” which she details in her book, “Confessions of Prairie B----.” She joins Megyn Kelly TODAY to talk about her relationships with co-stars and to open up about devoting time to the National Association to Protect Children as a child sexual abuse survivor herself.
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Alison Arngrim Reveals ‘Little House On The Prairie’ Secrets | Megyn Kelly TODAY
Nellie was my all time favorite character! Best line, when Mother buys her the restaurant "But who's...going...to do...the COOKING?"
Then.... the ‘help wanted’ sign
Ahahaaa! I read that hearing her voice! Perfect! 👌😂
😂lmao! Reminds me of one of my favorite lines when some random customer from the restaurant was demanding warm bread. Nellie gives that guy an ugly look, shouts "COMING RIGHT UP!" And throws bread at the guy, knocking him over 😂😂😂
Lily Zerep I have to find that now! 😂
Lily Zerep I kind of remember the guy who kept getting burnt food and stuff everyday, and then he was so happy when mrs ingalls started cooking 😂 I wonder if it is the same guy haha!
Can we all just agree that Alison is 100% awesome and that we need more people like her in the world.
100% agree!❤💙
Agree
Yes! I love her. She seems like so much fun!!
Allison is proof that it’s good to have a youthful soul as you get older. It’s okay to be silly and have fun.
I agree 💯 indeed age is a mind over matter an it doesn't matter if you stay happy humble excited for others kind it's however we want to grow ? just take dear sweet Betty White for example or good ole Nelly who is complete opposite of her character as an actress God bless them be happy and enjoy life never let anyone steal your thunder
@@lindacarbone9576 That's some sound advice Nina. Thank you 😊
The girl you loved to hate. The wheel chair scene was the best!
I had the honor of working with her back in the day for an aids benefit, she was as gracious as she is on here.
Nice.
Met Alison at a book signing years ago
She was very funny and kind. lots of good stories.
She really did a fantastic job as Nelly!
I agree 💯 she sure did. Thank you for your comment.
My grandparents lived next door to Michael Landon’s in-laws. So, I got invited to watch the filming one time. It was a location shoot. I met both Melissas. ( Laura And Mary) They were friendly and very gracious. And I met Michael Landon. He had more energy than anyone I’ve ever seen. He directed everything. He also played ping pong 🏓 all through lunch. I was amazed by how hard everyone worked.
Wow that's awesome good for you im sure that's a wonderful memorie you have like ive said i still watch little house on the Prairie today it's one of the few shows im able to enjoy the actors and actresses who didn't let hollywood go to their heads im certainly thankful to God almighty for that. Thank you for sharing your story again that's absolutely wonderful im sure you will never forget that beautiful day ? i don't know what i would have done if i was ever face to face with Michael Landon i always had the biggest crush on him grown up i used to say i was going to marry him LOL 😅 so i probably would have made a fool out of myself ? oh well lucky you i would be lying if i didn't say im a little jealous of you hahaha
Coolbeans
What a wonderful lady!!! God bless all of her work she puts toward keeping children safe!!!!
Yes! She is wonderful and will be blessed. She is down to earth and humble too, which is great!
Is the woman who play the mother on little house still,alive?
@@bethboho9633 yes, both Karen Grassle and Katherine McGregor are still alive. (Caroline Ingalls and Harriet Olsen).
@@monalisasmile6629 Katherine McGregor passed away at the end of 2018.
Vedran Iljazović oh no! Really! I had no idea! Ahhh another cast member gone! Thank you for letting me know.
Out of all the actors/actresses that were on Little House on the Prairie, her interviews are the best. She is just hilarious. Makes total sense she went on to do standup comedy.
The show was such a blessing when I was growing up. It was a wonderful show! I absolutely love her, what a hero she turned out to be.
She's fifty-two that makes you 31 and you was a conservative., You must have had your own struggles?!
She has so much energy,..seems like she'd be fun to hang out with!
When I was little -- 40 years ago -- she came and visited this little Montreal depanneur that was opening.. OMG she was this teenage darling and just as fun as now 😘
She really still has her Nellie voice
She's absolutely delightful.
As a kid Laura was my favorite. As an adult Mrs. Oleson and Nellie are my favorite. Mrs. Oleson was so talented. So comical, yet believable. Nellie was too. My favorite part was when Percival was teaching Nellie how to separate the eggs and she told him he should write a book "short cuts to cooking." She just kept calling him short. Then when she realized she loved him, she squat walked to make herself shorter and he thought she was mocking his height. Her growing up years were memorable, but when she got that restaurant, that was so great!
I was not born when Little House originally aired but I grew up watching series in reruns and own a lot of the dvds. I love all the cast. Also, I think Michael Landon was a great man and easy on the eyes as well.
Love this so much! She does an amazing job with the same old questions she must hear millions of times over....”was that really a wig” and “were you and Laura friends” and “What was Michael Landon like” and “Didn’t you audition for Laura and Mary originally?” She has a great personality and just seems like a fun person.
Read Melissa's book "Prairie Days" too - she talks about their being best friends on the set. I loved everything about that show.
The fact people can still recognize her as Nellie Olson just shows how absolutely amazing of an actress she is. What an Icon!
Shes so cute! Her look and personality.
Indeed i agree she's kinda of adorable or at least that's what i think
She's great. What a wonderful person. Her and Melissa really made that show.
But which Melisa?????
@@bailey12354 Melissa Gilbert
@@bailey12354 Melissa Gilbert. Her and Alison were best friends but both have clearly said that they did not get along with Melissa Anderson at all.
Eugene Orowitz had nothing to do with it tho.
Michel Landon played a small role
Can't believe it's taken me 40+ years to find out she's such an astonishingly cool person.
I love Allison. ❤️ Her personality and her sense of humor is just amazing :)
She really has got one of the sweetest pair of eyes - very very beautiful !!
Melissa and Allison are best friends in reality - they really had great fun to act in little house on the prairie.
I also loved Allison in the episode the return of Nellie - what a beautiful matured young lady she had been there !! Oh I still love and watch this show - I am 60 years old now and watched it first in the 1970s. Later I watched it together with my children almost every autumn - it is so cosy and comforting !! Now I started to watch it with my grandchildren ....
Lots of love from Germany !! ❤🍃
So sorry Allison was abused in her past. She seems like an awesome person!
Really omg
@@vikingrolloishot1789 Yeah she was molested as a child by her older brother 😔
@@LilyZerep wow omg I’m so sorry that happened to her I myself am a survivor also. I don’t wish it on anyone
@@vikingrolloishot1789 I'm so sorry that happened to you 😔
Alison has always been amazing in interviews. I love her.
Great actresses come and go, but when you but when you can make so many people dislike you at such an early age there's real talent there. Alison's a great person. I'm glad that she is helping other children. She's the most wonderful person ever for that job.
I agree. To convince the entire world you are the polar opposite of your real personality is great acting!
My Mom used to say that when u hate a character on tv that it is because they are a great actress or actor. Nellie was mean but she was a good mean, I loved the whole show & I am now watching the reruns that are on tv. Nice to see the shows again.
Yes! To me you could tell even in character that she was nothing like Nellie in real life but also Nellie the character wasn't truly mean, she wanted to be liked and didn't know how to make people like her. On the other hand, Nancy the character was pure mean, lol. 😅 funnily enough, the actress who played her is named Allison too! Melissa and Allison must have been the top girl names in the 60s-70s.
I hated when "Nellie" moved and the character never returned. "Nancy" was just annoying.
Agreed!
Nancy was a poor copy of Nellie. She never rose to Nellie’s level
Yes! Constantly saying “you hate me!” Ughhhh
The Nellie character was maliable and had a chance for redemption; which she did once she married. Nancy didn’t have a redeemable bone in her body. One of my favorite story lines was when Nellie and her husband come back and Nellie sees how rough it was to raise her by watching her mother try to deal with Nancy.
UGH I forgot about Nancy, I wanted to murder her 😂😂😂 I thought Nellie was bad, Nancy is terrible
I smiled so much while I watched this my cheeks hurt.
so did the lady who is sitting behind "Nellie"...
@@mrsTraveller64 looòlip nikki unto
Lavender Child SAME 😆😆😆😆
Nellie Olson and her crazy mother were what made the show entirely amazing!! I would watch this show with my daughter when she was very young and I'd say to her Hey, its time for" little house" and she'd say Good, I hope Nellie Olson's in this one!
I love the interviews with Nels and Harriett.
I still have some LHOTP VHS and a player to watch them on!
tamara I have the entire DVD set also lol I still pull them out every now and then. Vision TV still airs reruns.
I used to watch that show with my mom. 😢 Was nice to see Nellie! Seems like a great lady.
Still watch this show almost every single day and love it
remembering jazziedog so do I!!
@@beaky3178on COZI TV.
This woman is awesome! She also said once that Michael Landon made sure everybody on set was home by 6pm every day so they could be with their family.
It was great seeing Alison after all these years !
Her voice still sounds like Nelly at times ..
She's Beautiful 💕
And great to know they all got along so well ..
She played her part very well !!
I luv that show - I still watch it every day
Love her. She is so funny. Nellie was one of my favorite characters. I never missed an episode.
Every time we check our chicken barn for eggs we joke around saying "country girrrrls". Lol
MacPilly Homestead LOL I never understood that “long legged snipes” insult from that episode 🤷♀️
@@deletedleaf2688 that comes from the books. Since kids grow so quickly, girls had "grow stripes" which was just extra fabric folded at the bottom of dresses. When the girls grew, Caroline would lower the length of their dresses to cover their legs. However, when they went to Walnut Grove, there was no more room at the bottom of their dresses, and there was no time or money to make dresses right away. And the girls had no shoes. So, when Laura and Mary showed up to the first day of school, with very short dresses and no shoes, they were called long legged snipes.
I love her character on Little House
Nellie and Harriet Oleson were the spice back then on the show.
I still love Little House to this day!! Even though Nellie was horrid, Alison did such an amazing job acting her character!! Can you imagine Little House WITHOUT Nellie Olsen???!!!
My grandmother loved the show.
Or without Harriet.
I loved to hate Nellie!
Me too, lol! I love the role of overbearing mother in laws too 😂
I loved it when Nellie finally started being nice when she fell in love with Percival.
@Daniel Appleton Probably why they brought in Nancy. They had to even out the sweetness with her own brand of sourness.
I couldn't help it I loved Nellie. It wasnt her fault her mom spoiled her so much. She got nice once she met a boyfriend. She just needed some love.
My fav episode: “Here come the brides” . I love it when Nellie says to the pig farmer, “I don’t know enough to be a wife, or that I’m good enough for you.” It makes her less one dimensional. She knew she was shallow and there was a human being in there trying to get out.
Agreed!!
Yes! I loved how Nellie had little moments when she was nice and humble. When she was with Luke, that made her nicer. I loved watching her hold hands with him, smile at him and didn't even care that he was a pig farmer 🥰
Thank you, Allison. ❤
She has bundles of energy. Love her.
I wanna meet her!! I loved nellie. LHOTP is my all time favorite show. Lots of likable characters, even nellie!!
Jacinta Morrison I really liked Nells. He was always so laid back and calm. How he ever put up with bitchy Harriet I'll never know. 😞😒
Yes yes yes, the wheelchair episode on Little House was my favorite. That cast was the best. I watched that show on re runs for years. Love it.
What a great show. Nellie and Mrs. Olson had us in stitches constantly. Boy do I miss it!
She has such great stories!! We all grew up with this wonderful show!
I really liked it back in the day!
Hi Sharon hope you’re okay?
pa ingalls was a gorgeous man!
Samantha Evans He sure was.
Yep. And loved it. Soo too bad what he did to his wife tho. Pretty much took himself off that pedastal. Glad she became a CHRISTian as a result ... AND Michael Jr. God really does work in people's 🤗 most horrible, painful times.
I never though Karen Grassley was beautiful enough for him.
@@brookehanley3659 I read that she was the only one he wanted. Saw her inner beauty and talent, portraying a sweet and good mother. He made certain that in the scripts she was treated the way he thought a woman should be.
But not a nice man. He abused his children and abandoned one wife and family after another.
Thank you for speaking out about child abuse ! It should not hurt to be a child... I KNOW
Hi Judith hope you’re okay?
I need her energy! So glad she is not at all like her character in real life!
Why would she be?😂
Jennifer Wilson wouldn't that be terrible.!
I loved that show as a kid I still watch it now and then. So many wonderful actors and actresses on the show. I love seeing interviews when they talk about the series and what went on with certain episodes or how the other costars were.
I always knew she was a cool gal.
What a wonderful, talented women and actress and comic entertainer . Love her 💖
She is awesome!
Hi Wendy hope you’re okay?
Refreshing. She did that wonderful role and has parlayed it into a career. Good for her. I like her too.
We love Nellie, and Alison even more.
Kelly's FUNNY AND VERY Talented!!THANKYOU ALLISON FOR HELPING OUR CHILDREN!
Hi Beverly hope you’re okay?
She looks so good!
I just finished her book. I LOVED IT!
Megyn is straight fan girling in this segment 😂🙌🏼🙌🏼
“Confessions of a Prairie B*tch” 😂 I love that title.
Megyn Kelly sure loves Little House on the Prairie
Megyn was at an age where she would have watched this when it first aired as a little girl. Started in 1974.September.
@@brookehanley3659 on a different show she said she watched it as an adult also. I think it was when she was working as a lawyer.
I think MANY adults do watch it. I know I do!!
@@brookehanley3659 I've watched as an adult too. When I was a kid we used to call it little mouse on the ferry. My mom wanted to watch it so we used to watch it when I was growing up
I'm 17 and its my favorite show!
I read her book that she wrote years ago when it first came out. It's really good reading!!!!
After reading people saying it's good book I might actually get it
Many of the cast members wrote memoirs, I hope to read them someday.
loved LHONTP - have all the episodes!!
Love you Alison! You were so deliciously mean!
Had to edit to say, I didn't know you were sexually and physically abused, and fight for the rights of children now! I have even MORE respect for you! Blessings!
She deserves many awards for playing Nellie. Loved that show…still watch it to this day. Lol!
We love Alison and the series!
If you remember the 60s TV show "Land of the Giants", Alison's brother and abuser Stefan Arngrim played the little boy on that show
I read that somewhere. So glad she turned out to be a well rounded person!
Lol watching Little House now, watched the reruns over the past few months. Yip, thank you Alison Arngrim and all the Little House cast for hours of joy and good memories xx
I like her!!
Loved Nellie. Little House on the Prairie is one of the all time greats
gosh, Alison seems so lovely! would enjoy meeting her and/or listening to her speak.
I read her book and it was soooooooo good! To think I spent so many years "hating" her (-:
The peer we love to hate!!!
Adanna Campbell she's one of those ppl. You love to hate. Sort of like JR. on Dallas.
I just checked out her book from the library yesterday (02/26/24). And started reading it last night.
How do you like it so far? I'm thinking about ordering it online!
She seems like an awesome, genuine person. I really like her.
Wonderful kind woman. Now had dedicated herself to helping abused children. God bless her.
I did not know that she had been sexually and physically abused as a child..that's great that she's helping with that cause because it's so important to bring awareness to it..I am a survivor of child abuse and I try to support causes that help the children and survivors when I can..I REALLY disliked that Nellie Olsen character,she was THE WORST..but I always thought Alison Arngrim was a pretty girl..and she's still pretty 😊
I read her book !! if you haven't read it , i highly recommend you get it . it's fantastic !! unread it cover
i read her book .her brother molested her , got her into drugs . this is s strong woman . a real survivor . the book is fantastic !!!! A+++
Sexual abuse is a horrible crime, but when it happens to children, it becomes a different monster, and especially when its your own brother. Brothers are suppose to protect sisters.
@@carolboyce6055 her brother do this think ? 😢
Yes, her brother was Stefan Arngrim who was a member of the cast of a sci-fi tv series from the late 60's called Land of the Giants.
My big crush on Little House was of course Melissa Sue Anderson, but I had a thing for Nellie Olsen the bad girl
You're not too bad yourself😍
So did you marry a Mary or a Nellie?
I prefer listening to her than melissa gilbert. Down to earth and a pleasure to listen to.
Agreed, agreed !!!!
It's not a competition.
Melissa and Alison are great friends
Alison Arngrim is hilarious! She used to do stand up in LA and I loved seeing her.
Great interview. Thank you.
Alison Arngrim is completely delightful. Gratitude for the work she is doing now. Please come to Northern California so that I can attend your one woman show!!! Megan Kelly, I have not watched many of your interviews but, I can see how genuine you are here. Makes me want to watch more of your interviews.
I met Alison Arngrim at a a book signing. She is absolutely funny and delightful person. I spoke French with her as I wanted to speak French with someone so I did.
What a lovely person she is.
Love her 🌺
Nellie Oleson was one of my favorite characters'..she was a piece of work lol
I love watching you Alison in the "Little House On The Prairie" as Nellie, you are a great actress.
My fav show!, Nellie was my fav! Loved when she had the talking machine !
bless her
Her voice is the same 🙂
I thought the same EXACT thing!
C
So is Melissa Gilbert’s.
I am going to get her book. I just love her. Little house on the prarie..no topping that show. So wonderful. I think we all wanted to live in that town.
I still want to live there lol
Sandy Mcdonald Its kind of for a Keysburgish feel to it. Small hometown. Like Mayberry
Yay! My childhood!
Allison and Melissa G. Should get a show again together. On cbs comedy
Wow!!! Suddenly I'm Nelly's biggest fan!
I was bullied so I hated Nellie but as I watched her grow, I started to like her more and more. Then I wanted to find out who played her and I was so in awe that she is such a funny, happy, person with such a great personality. Knowing her and Laura were friends shows what a great actress she really was.
She's fantastic! The fact that she read for both Laura and Mary and was passed is enough to discourage anyone. But to be called back and read for "Nellie" and to be hired on the spot is difficult for any child actor. She knew that she would be disliked around the world. It was a tough hire. But she did it. To her credit, she handled it well, became a world famous villain and still talks about it fondly. She used all of her experiences to help others in need. The woman behind "Nellie Olson" is actually a very nice helpful person.
How fun, such memories!
She was hilarious as Nellie, especially the first episode with Percival.
In the show, Nellie and Laura became friends in the later seasons right?