Kelly Rizzo is not going to let haters dictate her life.
For those attacking her for moving on with Breckin Meyer two years after her husband Bob Saget passed away, the podcaster had a very apt and very detailed reply on Sunday. In a five-minute video posted on TikTok, Rizzo opened up about how losing a spouse is an individual experience and how it could be different for different people.
“Unless you are a widow or a widower, you truly have absolutely no place and no right to comment on this, because you do not know what it’s like,” Rizzo asserted in her video.
Kelly Rizzo is taking no criticism for moving on from Bob Segat; The Actress and Producer slams haters
In her March 10 video, Rizzo continued, “You just don’t understand the incredibly complex and difficult, and dynamic thoughts and feelings that come up during this entire process.”
Sharing how widowers experience grief, guilt, and loneliness even months or years after a spouse dies, Rizzo said, “You feel guilty, you feel shamed, you feel horrible, but yet you also feel lonely, and you wanna do it [be with someone].”
For Rizzo, thankfully, she said she had the “support and love” of Saget’s family, including his daughters Jennifer, 31, Lara, 34, and Aubrey, 36, who encouraged her to start dating again; however, to her, it still felt wrong until a certain point in time.
“They’re telling you it’s ok, but yet you still feel really weird about it. In my situation, it was Bob’s daughters, Bob’s friends. They were saying, ‘It’s ok.’ so I’m like, ‘Okay, it must be ok.’ But you still need to feel okay with it and [have] peace with it in your heart,” Rizzo noted before adding that she “didn’t personally get to that point until well after a year after Bob had passed. And then I didn’t start dating until 18 months or so after Bob passed.”
“It’s not one size fits all, but there is absolutely no room for judgment. You cannot judge whether you’ve been through the same thing or not, it is not your place to judge because everyone goes through it differently,” the Eat Travel Rock host stated using the most straightforward language available.
She concluded the video by saying, “Bob is always gonna be a part of my life.”
When did Kelly Rizzo start dating Breckin Meyer?
Rizzo and Meyer were confirmed to be dating in early February after they stepped out together, hand in hand, from Steven Tyler’s annual Grammy Awards viewing party.
“It took a while to get to the point where I’m like, ‘ok, I think he’d be happy with it’” Rizzo told E! News at the party.
Days later, the two were again spotted hand in hand while out and about in Los Angeles.
In her Sunday video, Rizzo mentioned Meyer, saying, “I’m very fortunate that I was able to find someone who holds space for that and appreciates it and gets it, and is strong enough and confident enough to know that Bob’s always gonna be a part of my life.”
Bob Saget, best known for Full House, passed away on January 9, 2022, at age 65, after being found unresponsive in a hotel room.
“They have concluded that he accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it, and went to sleep. No drugs or alcohol were involved,” the Saget family told Us Weekly in a statement back then.
An earlier version of this story originally aired on October 2, 2022.
Correspondent Tracy Smith asked actor John Stamos, “Do you feel like you’re having a moment?”
“I hope I am,” he replied. “But then, if you have a moment, then that moment has to end, right? Or something. [Still], I’m happier than I’ve ever been.”
Truth is, Stamos has a lot to be happy about. In the past four decades, Stamos has become something of a fixture in our lives: He’s the heartthrob who won’t ever break your heart … the friend who won’t ever let you down … and from here to Broadway, someone who’s been called one of the truly underrated actors in the game.
These days, he’s also a husband and a father. He married actor and model Caitlin McHugh in 2018, just before the birth of their son, Billy. It was the end of what he says was maybe one of the longest childhoods in history.
“I went into becoming an adult kicking and screaming,” he said. “And when you have the whole world going, ‘You look 20,’ I didn’t have any of those tent poles that say you’re an adult. I was just skatin’ through.”
“You didn’t have to grow up?”
“I didn’t have to. I had Peter Pan syndrome, which is dangerous, you know?”
The boy who didn’t want to grow up was born in Orange County, California in 1963. John was the first of Bill and Loretta Stamos’ three children, and even as a kid, little John seemed destined for the stage.
“I wanted to be famous,” he said. “I wanted to be famous so bad! And then once I got it, I loved it. I still do. You know, these people go, ‘Oh, I hate being famous, taking pictures.’ If you see me somewhere, ask for a picture. I’m happy to do it, because it’s what I wanted my whole life.”
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He skipped college to try his hand at acting, and landed a role as Blackie Parish on the long-running soap “General Hospital.” Stamos was a star, with a reputation as a ladies’ man. He said, “There was a long time when I felt like, ‘I need to be this Lothario,’ because people were living vicariously through [me]. … I wasn’t that guy. I mean, there were moments. But I think people thought I was out doing a lotta things with a lot of women that I wasn’t. First of all, the thing that saved me most was I would go to bed around 8:00 at night. I was always asleep!”
But his star really took off in 1987, when he was cast as Uncle Jesse Katsopolis in the TV series “Full House.”
“‘Full House’ comes along, I’m not gonna lie, it was very difficult, a lot of it. A lot of it was,” he said.
Why? “Because it just wasn’t where I saw myself. The reviews were like, ‘This show won’t last ’til Thanksgiving.’ And now, I’m so proud of it. Now I’m really happy that I did that show. I’m glad I did it, obviously.”
John Stamos and Bob Saget in the sitcom “Full House.”
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Whatever his feelings about “Full House,” it made John Stamos a next-level star, and gave him a best friend in co-star Bob Saget.
At Stamos’ 50th birthday bash in 2013, Saget toasted his friend: “You deserve so much happiness and you are so full of love and you are such a great person. And the talent and the looks everybody resents, but you’re just a heart, and I just love you very, very much.”
The two were practically inseparable, and when Saget died in January 2022 after a fall in a Florida hotel room, Stamos was shattered.
Stamos said, “I don’t know what else to say about it other than obviously … one of the biggest influences in my life was Bob. I wouldn’t be who I am without Bob. My parents, now that’s obvious. But him, you know, he was there for everything, all the good, all the bad. He was my brother, you know? He’s the brother that that I always wanted.”
At his house, Stamos showed Smith Saget’s guitar, which his wife gave to him. “You can only play dirty songs on here,” he said.
Stamos is a collector: his home is filled with photos of heroes who became friends. He’s also collected a few screen credits, like a long-term part on the hit series “ER.”
With looks, charm, and a star on the Walk of Fame, it always seemed like Stamos had the perfect life. But his first marriage, to model-actress Rebecca Romijn, ended in divorce. And as he writes in a new memoir coming out later this fall, “If You Would Have Told Me,” he had other dark days as well.
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Smith asked, “Have you pretty much worked steadily since ‘General Hospital’? Has there ever really been a dry spell?”
“Yeah. I think there was a time. I think I’m in a dry spell right now. I haven’t worked in a couple days!” he replied.
“That’s how you look at it?”
“That’s how actors look at it. There was, yes, of course, there was times,” Stamos said. “You know, I don’t wanna labor on it. But in my first marriage, I think I was consumed with her and not my own career. And I just kinda let things go and it was more I felt like, ‘I’ve done it,’ you know? That was my thing, too. For the longest time, when I was not sober, when I was fuzzy, I thought, ‘I’ve done it all.’ I didn’t wanna kill myself, but I didn’t care if I died.”
“You didn’t care if you died?”
“I said, ‘I’ve done it all. I’ve done … if I die tomorrow, it’s okay.’ What was I thinking? I hadn’t done it all; I still haven’t done it all, not even close.”
He said, “You know, that fateful night of, I got in my car, I thought I could drive, and I couldn’t. I just have flashes in my mind about driving in circles. And people were driving near me and they would roll the window down, ‘Uncle Jesse, pull over!’ And I went to rehab, and it was the hardest thing ever.
“My friend said, ‘You know, your mom was really worried about you.’ He said my mom would call him and say, ‘I’m worried about Johnny.’ ‘Cause I thought I was fooling everybody. Anyway, that was that. So, when that happened, I said, I can’t screw this up now. I have to stay with this.”
And here’s something you might not know about Stamos: he’ s a hell of a drummer. He’s been playing with the Beach Boys and co-founder Mike Love since the 1980s. Love even officiated John and Cailtin’s wedding.
“You know how they say don’t meet your heroes?” Stamos said. “I’m glad that I met him, ’cause he’s everything that you’d want Mike Love to be.”
John Stamos at the drums.
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And maybe, after a few decades of figuring it out, John Stamos is everything he wants to be, too.
Smith asked him, “What’s the future look like?”
“I don’t know, I don’t know,” he replied. “More kids, I hope. But I’m not looking too far in advance. I’m just thinking about now. ‘Cause the next moment might be someone, you know, gone, right?”
“And this moment’s pretty great?”
“This is a great moment. Winnie the Pooh said something like, ‘Today is my new favorite day.’ Making these new memories, and it’s, you know, my new favorite day. Today is my new favorite day.”
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Kelly Rizzo, the widow of late “Full House” star Bob Saget, looked back at “feeling like the luckiest person on Earth” with her late husband on what would have been his 67h birthday on Wednesday.
Rizzo, who has shared a numberof heartfeltmessages since her husband’s tragic death in January 2022, wished her late husband a happy birthday in an Instagram post featuring several personal snaps.
“Happy birthday 🎂 This truly never gets less weird or surreal. But the gratitude grows every single day,” Rizzo wrote.
“I’ll never stop feeling like the luckiest person on Earth to have had the privilege of spending 6 years with this amazing man. Life is short and we never know how long we are going to be here. And I still take comfort in the fact that Bob used every minute on this planet to enjoy life to the fullest and make the world a better place.”
Rizzo, the host and creator of “Eat Travel Rock TV,” called on fans to “do as” Saget would do to celebrate the late comedian on his birthday.
“Tell all the people you love that you love them, preferably in a very long & verbose voice text dictated by Siri,” she wrote.
“I’ll celebrate him today by having a very-cold, extra dry dirty martini with blue-cheese olives (IYKYK). And I hope he’s celebrating up there with a massive cigar (his favorite thing), a martini, and a few dozen oysters while sitting on a beach. He would love that. Thank you all for still loving Bob so much. 🎂🎂🎂🎂❤️❤️❤️❤️”
Rizzo also shared touching birthday tributes to Saget on her Instagram story including one from Caitlin McHugh Stamos – actor and wife of “Full House” star John Stamos – and another from Grammy-winning producer and photographer Mathieu Bitton, as well.
“Sending you so much love and saluting Bob for everything he meant and will continue to mean to so many. You’re great and I know he would be so proud of you. ❤️,” Couric wrote.
Mayer, Saget’s friend who took part in a Netflix tribute for him last year, also shared a sweet post in honor of his late pal on Wednesday.
“I guess what I’m saying is… thank God for our ability to remember those who have left us. It’s one of the rare divine traits of being human; we can reflect and revisit and keep the flame of someone’s impact on our lives burning bright,” Mayer wrote.
“Thank God we don’t ever have to let go. Thank God for our memories. Happy Birthday Bob, I love you. ♥️”
One year after the sudden death of comedian Bob Saget, his wife has a request for billionaire and Twitter CEO Elon Musk: Give Saget his blue checkmark back.
Saget’s widow, Kelly Rizzo, took to Twitter Monday — on the one-year anniversary of his passing — to ask Musk why the comedian lost his verified status on the social media platform after his death.
“Hi @elonmusk -today on the 1 year anniversary of Bob’s (@bobsaget) passing, I saw he’s no longer verified?,” Rizzo wrote. “My husband truly loved Twitter. Out of respect for his legacy, can something be done? Thank you kindly. (friends please help).”
She added that the “Full House” star would have been disappointed to see that his checkmark disappeared because he enjoyed using Twitter.
“The only reason I’m addressing this at all is because I know Bob would be very bummed about this,” Rizzo said. “He’d say ‘hey, if someone goes to see my page and all the jokes I’ve tweeted over the years, how will they know it’s for sure me!?’”
Hi @elonmusk -today on the 1 year anniversary of Bob’s (@bobsaget ) passing, I saw he’s no longer verified? My husband truly loved Twitter. Out of respect for his legacy, can something be done? Thank you kindly🙏🏼 (friends, please help)
Currently, Twitter does not have an option to memorialize the accounts of deceased users. The only course of action available for those accounts is for verified family members to request that the platform delete them altogether.
Musk has not yet responded to Rizzo’s tweets, but fans and supporters seconded her thoughts and brainstormed ideas for memorialized Twitter accounts.
“Maybe there could be a special colored check for all legends that have passed on?” one user replied under Rizzo’s tweet.
On Jan. 9, 2022, Saget died at age 65 in an Orlando hotel room while on a comedy tour. An autopsy determined the actor died from accidental head trauma, which most likely resulted from a fall.
The prolific stand-up comedian was best known for his role as Danny Tanner, the wholesome single dad to three girls in the 1990s sitcom “Full House.”
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Bob Saget’s wife is opening up about her relationship with his children.
On Thursday, Kelly Rizzo sat down with the “Today” show and talked about how she has been dealing with her grief and more in the year since the beloved actor died.
When I think about the fact that I haven’t talked to, or seen my husband in a year, that’s very surreal and very, very strange,” she said.
“The grief now has really morphed into this tremendous gratitude for the time we had together.” Kelly Rizzo speaks out one year after her husband Bob Saget’s death. @jacobsoboroff speaks with Kelly about how how she’s carrying on his legacy by living her life to the fullest. pic.twitter.com/Er29b8yuVk
Rizzo also talked about trying to bring Saget’s famous optimism into her life, including her grieving.
“I’m really trying to take from it what you can do to turn this into a positive experience because Bob did that,” she said. “He had so much loss in his life, and he turned everything into a positive, reflective experience. If he did that, I want to use this experience in the same way.”
She added,”The missing him and the being sad about it doesn’t go away. The grief now has morphed into this tremendous gratitude for the time that we had together.”
Saget died on Jan. 9, 2022, at age 65 due to an accidental head trauma.
“I want to say everything, but just his protection,” Rizzo told ET. She added, “It felt safer with Bob in the world, ’cause he just took care of everybody so much. He was such a protector and a caretaker. He just made you feel safe. He handled everything. He took care of everything.”
“With him around, I just felt, like, so safe, and so it’s almost like my shield is gone,” Rizzo added. “But, at the same time, then you learn to do some of those things yourself and then you feel [that] he taught me so many things that now I’m bringing with me. It’s a way to kind of keep him around.”
Saget, 65, was found dead on Jan. 9 while on tour. His family later said authorities told them he “accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it and went to sleep.”
Rizzo told ET that nobody had a “wicked and hilarious” sense of humor like her late husband. She said her grief “comes in waves” and that she might “have a good day, and then I’ll have three horrible days” — and that the cruel cycle then simply continues.
Saget “never thought he would find somebody again” after his first divorce, Rizzo told ET. But that changed when the pair met online in 2015. They married in 2018.
“I’ve never met anybody like him,” Rizzo told US Weekly in 2018. “He keeps me on my toes, literally. He’s just a wonderful guy. He’s a comedian, so there’s never a dull moment! And all of his friends are just so fun because they’re just as fun and unique and complex as he is.”
Rizzo said her late husband would be happy about her strong relationship with his daughters.
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Rizzo told ET that Saget would be proud of her relationship with his three adult daughters, Jennifer, Lara and Aubrey.
The late comedian mentioned how “magical” that connection was in 2018.
“Kelly and my daughters love each other, so it really is some magical thing that happened,” Saget told US Weekly, adding he and his wife didn’t plan on having children. He added, “We want to enjoy the love of each other, so that’s something that we want to do. I’ve been a dad a lot. Maybe I’ll be a grandfather one day.”
Rizzo has kept herself busy with “Eat, Travel, Rock” — her production company its titular web series — and by supporting the Scleroderma Research Foundation, which Saget was heavily involved with.
“It was his life’s work,” Rizzo told ET. “Outside of his family, the most important thing to him was this foundation. Scleroderma is the disease that took his sister’s life in the early ’90s and he truly dedicated his life to trying to find a cure for it. They’ve made so much progress because of his efforts.”
Scleroderma is a combination of rare diseases that harden the skin and affect the blood vessels, digestive tract and internal organs, according to the Mayo Clinic. There is currently no cure.
Rizzo added that Saget “did more in his life than most people could ever dream of” and “truly made the world a better place.” She said she was “grateful that I was a part of it” and that his legacy was about love — which she’s unbelievably proud to carry on in his honor.
“I tell people I love them now every time I leave the room or I hug them every time I leave the room because Bob loved his hugs and he loved telling people he loved them,” Rizzo told ET. “That really resonated with people.”
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The actor whose looks and charm earned him a devoted following as Uncle Jesse in the sitcom “Full House,” and who currently stars as the intense coach of a high school girls’ basketball team in the Disney+ series “Big Shot,” talks with correspondent Tracy Smith about the impact of the death of his friend Bob Saget, and how the future looks today.
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Correspondent Tracy Smith asked actor John Stamos, “Do you feel like you’re having a moment?”
“I hope I am,” he replied. “But then, if you have a moment, then that moment has to end, right? Or something. [Still], I’m happier than I’ve ever been.”
If John Stamos is happier these days, it could be because he’s about to start the second season of the Disney+ series “Big Shot,” about a hot-headed college basketball coach who gets fired and ends up coaching a high school girls’ team with a certain intensity.
Smith asked, “Is it difficult for you to play a hard ass?”
“No,” he replied. “That comes pretty easy.”
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Truth is, Stamos might be one of the nicest people alive, even if he’s not, by his own admission, much of a sports guy. “It’s the jacket,” he explained after missing a shot.
But he is someone who seems to be hitting his stride, on screen and off. In the past four decades, Stamos has become something of a fixture in our lives: He’s the heartthrob who won’t ever break your heart … the friend who won’t ever let you down … and from here to Broadway, someone who’s been called one of the truly underrated actors in the game.
These days, he’s also a husband and a father. He married actor and model Caitlin McHugh in 2018, just before the birth of their son, Billy. It was the end of what he says was maybe one of the longest childhoods in history.
“I went into becoming an adult kicking and screaming,” he said. “And when you have the whole world going, ‘You look 20,’ I didn’t have any of those tent poles that say you’re an adult, right? I was just skatin’ through.”
“You didn’t have to grow up?”
“I didn’t have to. I had Peter Pan syndrome, which is dangerous, you know?”
The boy who didn’t want to grow up was born in Orange County, California in 1963. John was the first of Bill and Loretta Stamos’ three children, and even as a kid, little John seemed destined for the stage.
“I wanted to be famous,” he said. “I wanted to be famous so bad! And then once I got it, I loved it. I still do. You know, these people go, ‘Oh, I hate being famous, taking pictures.’ If you see me somewhere, ask for a picture. I’m happy to do it, because it’s what I wanted my whole life.”
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He skipped college to try his hand at acting, and landed a role as Blackie Parish on the long-running soap “General Hospital.”
But his star really took off in 1987, when he was cast as Uncle Jesse Katsopolis in the TV series “Full House.”
“‘Full House’ comes along, I’m not gonna lie, it was very difficult, a lot of it. A lot of it was,” he said.
Why? “Because it just wasn’t where I saw myself. You know, the reviews were like, ‘This show won’t last ’til Thanksgiving.’ And now, I’m so proud of it. Now I’m really happy that I did that show. I’m glad I did it, obviously.”
John Stamos and Bob Saget in the sitcom “Full House.”
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Whatever his feelings about “Full House,” it made John Stamos a next-level star, and gave him a best friend in co-star Bob Saget.
At Stamos’ 50th birthday bash in 2013, Saget toasted his friend: You deserve so much happiness and you are so full of love and you are such a great person. And the talent and the looks everybody resents, but you’re just a heart, and I just love you very, very much.”
The two were practically inseparable, and when Saget died this past January after a fall in a Florida hotel room, Stamos was shattered.
Stamos said, “I don’t know what else to say about it other than obviously … one of the biggest influences in my life was Bob. I wouldn’t be who I am without Bob. My parents, now that’s obvious. But him, you know, he was there for everything, all the good, all the bad. He was my brother, you know? He’s the brother that that I always wanted.”
At his house, Stamos showed Smith Saget’s guitar, which his wife gave to him. “You can only play dirty songs on here,” he said.
Stamos is a collector: his home is filled with photos of heroes who became friends. He’s also collected a few screen credits, like a long-term part on the hit series “ER.”
With looks, charm, and a star on the Walk of Fame, it always seemed like Stamos had the perfect life. But there were times, he said, when he didn’t always want to live it. “For the longest time, when I was not sober, when I was fuzzy, I thought, ‘I’ve done it all.’ I didn’t wanna kill myself, but I didn’t care if I died.”
“You didn’t care if you died?”
“I said, ‘I’ve done it all. I’ve done … if I die tomorrow, it’s okay.’ What was I thinking? I hadn’t done it all; I still haven’t done it all, not even close.”
He said, “You know, that fateful night of, I got in my car, I thought I could drive, and I couldn’t. I just have flashes in my mind about driving in circles. And people were driving near me and they would roll the window down, ‘Uncle Jesse, pull over!’ And I went to rehab, and it was the hardest thing ever.
“My friend said, ‘You know, your mom was really worried about you.’ He said my mom would call him and say, ‘I’m worried about Johnny.’ ‘Cause I thought I was fooling everybody. Anyway, that was that. So, when that happened, I said, I can’t screw this up now. I have to stay with this.”
And here’s something you might not know about Stamos: he’ s a hell of a drummer. He’s been playing with the Beach Boys and co-founder Mike Love since the 1980s. Love even officiated John and Cailtin’s wedding.
“You know how they say don’t meet your heroes?” Stamos said. “I’m glad that I met him, ’cause he’s everything that you’d want Mike Love to be.”
John Stamos at the drums.
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And maybe, after a few decades of figuring it out, John Stamos is everything he wants to be, too.
Smith asked him, “What’s the future look like?”
“I don’t know, I don’t know,” he replied. “More kids, I hope. But I’m not looking too far in advance. I’m just thinking about now. ‘Cause the next moment might be someone, you know, gone, right?”
“And this moment’s pretty great?”
“This is a great moment. Winnie the Pooh said something like, ‘Today is my new favorite day.’ Making these new memories, and it’s, you know, my new favorite day. Today is my new favorite day.”
