{"id":910597,"date":"2026-09-30T04:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T04:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/910597\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T04:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T04:38:09","slug":"the-mash-actress-who-made-history-in-the-boxing-ring-after-leaving-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/910597\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018M*A*S*H\u2019 Actress Who Made History in the Boxing Ring After Leaving Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gwen Farrell Adair, a recurring M*A*S*H actress and trailblazing boxing referee, died at 93 on April 30, 2026. Gwen Farrell Adair appeared in 26 M*A*S*H episodes from 1972 through the 1983 finale. The M*A*S*H actress later became the first licensed female referee in California in 1980 and officiated a men&#8217;s world title fight on June 5, 1998. Her boxing career included more than 700 bouts and inductions into the California Boxing Hall of Fame (2003), World Boxing Hall of Fame (2005), National Boxing Hall of Fame (2016), and the California Boxers Association Hall of Fame. Family described her as a supportive presence in a statement shared on a GoFundMe page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gwen Farrell Adair, a recurring M*A*S*H actress and trailblazing boxing referee, died at 93 on April 30, 2026.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,63427,478574,478575,478573,85],"class_list":["post-910597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-career","tag-boxing-referee","tag-california-boxers-association-hall-of-fame","tag-gwen-farrell-adair","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}