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Josh Gadis mourning the loss of a friend afterBob Saget’s death.
TheFrozenstar, 40, reminisced about the late actor whodiedSunday at age 65, sharing a video message that Saget sent to his daughters Ava, 11, and Isabella, 7, last January after they watchedFull Housetogether during quarantine.
They particularly bonded over Danny Tanner, the beloved patriarch Saget played for eight seasons onFull Housefrom 1987 to 1995, before returning for the Netflix revivalFuller House, which aired its fifth and final season in 2020.
“I just talked to your dad for the first time and … you’re just very fortunate,” Saget continued. “Of course, he loves you guys so much and he is just one of the sweetest people I have ever spoken to. So, congrats on having a great dad.”
Saget added that he had “become Danny Tanner,” noting their shared obsession with cleanliness: “I use hand sanitizer all day long, literally, it’s always at my disposal. I have a cleaning rag that’s microfiber. I have become Danny Tanner.”
Gad also opened up about mourning Saget during his appearance on Monday’sepisodeof SiriusXM’sThe Hoda Show. “I’m still picking up the pieces of the shock and grief,” Gad told hostHoda Kotb.
The cast of Full House.ABC/Getty
“My girls got through the pandemic discoveringFull House,” he recounted. “And as Danny Tanner was a surrogate father to me after my parents got divorced and I was growing up watchingFull House, and him being this anchor keeping his family together, watching my girls process this trauma of this sort of loss they were going through with COVID, was sort of one of the greatest gifts I could have ever imagined.”
“He was a good human being … He was one of those people who just exuded warmth and joy, and he always had a smile on his face. I was going through our texts last night, and every one of them began with such a warm compliment, or just a genuine sort of joyful opportunity to reach out and tell me that something I did had moved him,” Gad added.
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Sagetwas found deadSunday in his hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando afterperforming a stand-up comedy setthe night before. Aninitial autopsyfound that there was no “drug use or foul play.”
TheFull Housecasthas since paid tributeto Saget on social media, as have his many fans, and friends.
source: people.com
