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Whitley Marion Gilbert-Wayne is a fictional character who appears in the American sitcom A Different World, portrayed by actress Jasmine Guy. [2] [3] [4] Warming up to whiz student Dwayne Wayne, the two have an on/off flirtation with each other until their eventual marriage near the end of the series.
After graduation, she was engaged to Dwayne and had a part-time job at E.H. Wright Industries as an assistant art buyer and as a dorm director at Hillman. After learning that Dwayne went on a date with another woman, Whitley broke off their engagement although the two reunited when Whitley cheated on her fiancé Byron Douglas III with Dwayne.
Whitley was beginning to put too much pressure on Dwayne. Dwayne decided to have a coffee date with Lisa Westin (Debbi Morgan). His honesty made him confess the truth to Whitley. Whitley was heartbroken and broke the engagement. By the end of this season, Whitley had fallen in love with Byron Douglass, portrayed by Joe Morton. Dwayne became ...
The single-cam, half-hour comedy will focus on their daughter’s time at Hillman College. A sequel series to “A Different World” focused on Dwayne and Whitley’s daughter is in early ...
A follow-up to A Different World is reportedly in the works at Netflix, after being stalled by the legal issues that surrounded the Cosby Show spinoff’s creator, Bill Cosby, from 2015 to 2021. A ...
On July 9, 1993, Dwayne Cleophus Wayne (or shall we say Chipmunk?) bid an emotional farewell to his partner in crime, Ron Johnson, on the series finale of A Different World. After six years of ...
A Different World is an American sitcom television series and a spin-off of The Cosby Show. It aired for six seasons on NBC from September 24, 1987, to July 9, 1993. [ 1 ] The series originally centered on Denise Huxtable ( Lisa Bonet ) and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional historically black college in Virginia.
Whitley's mother shows up for Thanksgiving with an apparent new fiancé, whose motives Whitley doubts, while Dwayne's mother likewise shows up unannounced; the fighting that ensues leads to the mothers being embroiled in a local protest for Haitian rights and being hauled off to jail. Waiting for their children to show up with bail money, the ...