'Full House' Star Bob Saget Reveals He Was A Dirty Daddy In His Memoirs
Former 'Full House' Dad Bob Saget has just released his memoirs and anyone who thought the actor might have been a mirror image of the clean cut Danny Tanner is about to be completely surprised. In his book Dirty Daddy, Saget reveals what really went on during the filming of 'Full House' and as it turns out things were a lot more entertaining when the cameras weren't rolling.
Saget did reserve some of his dirtier jokes for when the twins weren't on set at all. This included Saget rehearsing with a four-foot rubber doll which he liked to make sexual gestures with to amuse the crew. Another time, during a particularly long scene involving the show’s children, the three mischievous adults decided to raid the prop room refrigerator where they found six cans of Reddi-wip whipped cream. Saget, Stamos and Coulier then took turns taking hits of the nitrous oxide, Saget writes, “we were laughing, paranoid to be doing something so dumb. I guess we got high, don’t think so, though. It was hard to tell…” Saget and co-star Stamos weren't just on screen besties, they were pretty close in real life too, particularly on one very drunken night. Saget writes he once got “so drunk that Stamos ‘ended up literally taking off my shoes, cutting up my room-service steak and feeding me so I wouldn’t yack.’’ Stamos then put his inebriated costar to bed and followed soon after, the next morning Saget woke up with Stamos next to him and writes, “when I woke up the following day I realized ... I had just slept with John Stamos.’’
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As well as documenting the 'Full House' on set antics, Saget also lifts the lid on his childhood and describes his younger self as a “serial liar”. Saget writes that he was a ‘'mischievous little bastard shoplifting toy guns, candy, setting small fires.’” He also describes himself as being “overweight, with zits, and my signature look at the time was a late-seventies comb-over and welding-size bling-y PhotoGray glasses’’, by aged 15. This caused him to be a loner in high school where he was given the nickname, Saget the Faggot, by his crueler classmates. The actor also overcame family tragedy which included the deaths of his two sisters, four uncles, and many friends throughout the years. He writes that the losses made him “obsessed with death” and that he never thought he’d live past his fifties. It would be these early tragedies, however, that would push Saget on to pursuing a career in making people laugh, no matter how many knockbacks he faced throughout the years.
Dirty Daddy is sure to be an interesting read for any fans of Saget particularly those who remember him fondly as the dad on 'Full House'. His revelations might shatter the clean cut image that he had on the hit 80s show but it certainly makes his time on 'Full House' sound a lot more fun. Of all the celebrity memoirs _Dirty Dadd_y might just be the one that makes for the most compelling and fun read so far this year.
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