Jackie Stallone is a world-known astrologer and psychic who has appeared on several television shows including Howard Stern, Jay Leno, Geraldo and Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling to name just a few. We caught up with the zany, high-spirited lady who played the character Mama Stallone on the GLOW television show back in the 80’s.  

Besides catching us up on the latest between her and her GLOW friends from the past, she gave us some insight on her son Sylvester Stallone and grandson Sage.

What GLOW producer was always trying to make it with the GLOW wrestlers? Which wrestler did Sylvester’s son Sage send flowers to on a regular basis? What did Sly think of his mother climbing into the ring and becoming a part of the GLOW show?

She answered those and a bunch of other questions for our staff. Also check out our exclusive interview with the sexy girls from GLOW–Hollywood, Americana and Little Egypt here. 

SC: HI JACKIE. THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO DO THIS INTERVIEW.

Thanks for having me. Did you get that email I sent. We can just do all these questions over the phone.

SC: OKAY. WE’RE FINE WITH THAT. LET’S GET STARTED THEN. (PAUSE) IS IT TRUE YOU WERE A MEMBER OF THE FLYING WALENDAS? IF SO, HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU DID THAT?

That is true. I was in the circus. But I don’t give the age. How old was I? Sixteen.

SC: HOW DID YOU END UP GETTING ON GLOW?

The funniest thing is you asking ‘getting on GLOW’, I was part of the production. They all like to take claim. Matt [Cimber] just basically was hired to help out with some of the stuff and he was instrumental in raising some of the money from [Meshulam] Riklis I mean he really didn’t have a hell of a lot to say he was really just a lamb. Nobody wanted him.

I wrestled all my life as a teenager. Loved wrestling. My father trained me to be a wrestler. He was a lawyer but a physical fitness buff so he’d hire these people to work out with him then they would work out but if they didn’t show up I was his partner so wrestling was nothing to me.

I’ve got pictures of me with boxing gloves on back then.

SC: DO YOU HAVE PICTURES LIKE THAT YOU WANT TO SHARE?

Yeah. They’re hanging on the wall. I will have to take them out of the frame basically. I was always in boxing gloves when other girls were looking pretty and I had to get out of bed and toss a medicine ball.

My dad was a fitness buff. Charles Atlas trained with us. That rubbed off on me.

I raised my kids, Sylvester and Frankie, in a gymnasium, I owned one. Barbella’s in Washington, D.C. My kids would have to come to the gym and work out all the time and help me clean it up.

We made a living at the gymnasium, lifting weights and teaching wrestling. Thing is my kids, when I was on the cover on Time Magazine with a pair of boxing gloves, they were fit to be tied because Sylvester was a movie star by then but I didn’t care.

This was a lifestyle for me so it was only natural for me to get into wrestling. I was always around physical fitness and so have my kids and they’re an example of it today.

 SC: AS A MANAGER ON GLOW YOU PLAYED THE MAMA STALLONE CHARACTER. WHO WAS YOUR FAVORITE WRESTLER ON THE SHOW?

I kind of liked them all. The funniest thing of all is Mount Fiji. [She] was the biggest of all but my grandson Sage at twelve, of course Sylvester would never let him out of the house without a guard, I’d take him there and he would love it. But he fell in love with Fiji for some reason and he didn’t know how to tell her.  

So [Sage] took his father’s credit card and was always sending flowers on that credit card. So one day [Sylvester] gets ahold of the bill and said ‘What the hell’; he thought I was doing it. I said Sage has got a crush on some of the wrestlers.

SC: SAGE WAS SENDING FLOWERS BACK THEN. THAT’S FUNNY AS HELL.

Sage liked her and Hollywood (shown here in a recent photo). Those girls were always nice to him. They’d put themselves out more than the others.

Photo/Jon Abeyta

SC: WHEN WE INTERVIEWED HOLLYWOOD SHE ACTUALLY SAID THAT SAGE HAD A CRUSH ON HER.

Oh he did. He said those were the best years of his life. His father threw a fit because he was a movie star and it didn’t look good for a Grandmother to behave like this, but I still behave that way.

SC:  SO WHAT DID SLY SAY WHEN HE HEARD YOU WERE GONNA PLAY A CHARACTER ON GLOW? WAS HE SUPPORTIVE AT ALL?

No never. Are you kidding! Getting carried on the mat, bounced around. Just the whole involvement but I was obsessed with the job.

[Sylvester] hated the idea because he just thought it wasn’t the thing for a mother to do especially since he was a star and women didn’t do those things those days. You know that.

But I did and he shouldn’t be surprised because I raised him in the ring at Barbella’s.

SC: SO YOU COMMENTED ON MATT CIMBER, HOW ABOUT DAVID MCLANE?

David McLane? I still talk to him on the phone. We want to get this thing [GLOW] going again and I had it pretty well on the road and tried to talk the girls into taking David in because I needed some help to jump start this show again. I had the girls they’re all in their forties now but . . . .  David basically wanted to . . . go his own way and hire a bunch of young girls and train them and it just didn’t work out.

McClane and [Matt] couldn’t get along [on GLOW]. Matt, he was trying to lay the girls and they were there to work.

SC: WAS THERE A LOT OF THAT GOING ON?

Matt was always trying to make all the girls. He was trying to make them think without him they wouldn’t have a job, there was no such thing.

SC: YOU’RE INTO ASTROLOGY AND PSYCHIC THINGS AND STUFF LIKE THAT?

I’ve been into astrology since I was a teenager. I used to teach astrology at the colleges in Philadelphia so I’m not just a fly-by-night, you can go to my website. I’ve got books I’ve traveled the world doing seminars making public appearance. 

SC: WE WILL CHECK THAT OUT, WHAT’S THE WEBSITE’S NAME?

www.JacquelineStallone.com  I’ve been around the world. I’m the astrologer for the intellectual people of the world. Politicians who have run for president. I’ve been asked who’s going to win. I haven’t been wrong yet it’s a known fact. I’ve got a tremendous resume for astrology, been one for 50 years.

I’m the one who did the predictions for Clinton, Bush, Gore and Schwarzenegger, I mean these things I went on TV before they were elected. It was big news when I went on Jay Leno and said Hillary would not run, would not get the job then Obama beat her and she wouldn’t even [become] Vice President.

I also said Arnold Schwarzenegger would get elected and never leave politics, he’ll run for Senator next.

Back when I was an astrologer you had to be licensed, it was $1,800 a year you had to take an exam it took years to become one.  Today everyone’s a guru of some sort you know.

I have a tremendous following, I have about, I’d say 3 million a month following. I have a direct mail order for astrologers and customers and keep about 60 people going sending out answers and questions and mail in astrology.

I’ve got books, tapes, exercise tapes.

SC: ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE EXERCISE TAPE WITH RICHARD SIMMONS?

 Yes, Silver Foxes, I’m the one who put that together. They wanted to hire my daughter; they wanted someone young and beautiful. It was a big company Lorimar…remember them on TV? They were really big.

I did the Silver Fox setting and trained with Richard Simmons.

Who were the most popular celebrities back then? [Dustin] Hoffman, Sylvester. I got Dustin Hoffman’s father, Farrah Fawcett’s mother . . . and Pacino’s father. I went after all of them and offered them $5,000, then did the choreography.

The thing went triple Platinum in a month. And it still can be seen. Richard Simmons and Silver Foxes. I put that together.

Richard Simmons was a very mean greedy person.

SC: REALLY, HE DOESN’T COME ACROSSS THAT WAY.

No, he comes across as a spiteful little [explicit], you know. He can’t get along with anybody; he’s mean to his help, his employees. He’s just a dreadful person, but the show went on as you would say.

SC: SO YOU TAKE FRENCH CLASSES.

I have a French teacher every other day for two hours. She was born and raised in France and has been in this country about 12 years. I’ve had her for six years now.

SC: YOU STAY ACTIVE THAT’S GREAT.

I never was inactive. I’ve just continued what I’ve done all my life. Sylvester, he’s a fine painter, he’s an architect he writes his own movies he directs them he juggles six things. If you like it you can find time if you don’t like it you won’t. Like I don’t find time to cook because I don’t like it, I don’t have time to clean house because I don’t like it.

SC: SO WHAT’S SLY GOT GOING RIGHT NOW? IS HE IN PRODUCTION ON ANYTHING NEW?

Well his movie The Expendables is number one out there. Are you for real!

SC: I KNEW THAT BUT I WAS TALKING ABOUT WHAT’S GOING ON RIGHT NOW? IS HE DOING ANOTHER FILM?

Yeah, Expendables. They want to make a remake of it, you know another one [sequel].

He’s taken all these old over-the-hill actors that were ready for mothballs and made them all action heroes; it’s unbelievable.

In Hollywood when you’re 45 you’re just about over the hill. These people in their 50’s and 60’s they’re jumping and punching and leaping. It’s inspiring.

So he’s writing a sequel.   

SC: GETTING BACK TO GLOW ARE YOU IN TOUCH WITH ANY OF THE GIRLS OR MANAGERS ANYMORE?

Yes. Trish and a few of them email back and forth. I’m still hoping [to do another GLOW] somehow but I’d have to have some help…Sage or somebody to work with me because I can’t audition girls.

I’d like to work with Sage. He’s got more money than God and more time than God, Sylvester’s kid.

SC: HOW ABOUT AUNT KITTY?

I still talk to her. I email her and talk to her on the phone. She wants her career back again…she’s 96. She hates her nephew Matt. Aunt Kitty was Jane Mansfield’s aunt.

SC: WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH?

You never know. Every day . . . . you keep your eyes open.

Exclusive Interview with sexy GLOW girls Hollywood, Americana and Little Egypt – Sports Climax

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Jay Donetelli is a Tampa-based freelance sportswriter and contributor to Sports Climax. With an opinion sharper than an Ovechkin skate blade with the sting of an Ali jab, Donetelli has a loyal cult of readers who have found a way to love him.

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