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BOB SAGET: Back in Action!

March 30th, 2009

Bob Saget is returning to ABC on a new sitcom, Surviving Suburbia.

Yep, he plays a dad, again. Yes he has kids, again.

But don’t expect a Danny Tanner sentimental life lesson in this raunchy peek inside life on Main Street, USA.

Bob plays Steve Patterson, a man married for 20 years who has a love/hate relationship with his neighborhood.

“He loves everybody, but he just doesn’t want to get that involved,” Bob explains.

Such as?

“Don’t borrow the neighbors’ keys to take in the mail because suddenly you’re house-sitting. So it will come back to bite you in the ass,” Bob says with a laugh.

Luckily (though not so much for his neighbors), Steve’s the type of guy who lets you know how he’s really feeling.

“It’s really wicked some of the things Steve says,” Bob reveals. “But he says the things other people are thinking.”

And then there’s Steve’s favorite wardrobe staple.

“He walks around the neighborhood in flip-flops,” Bob says with a laugh.

Steve’s also the kind of guy who takes his daughter to Indian Princess play dates, so he can sit around and drink with the other dads.

“He’s does have a bit of a drinking issue on the show,” Bob says. “We’ll get into dealing with his vices.”

And don’t even ask about Steve’s profession.

 

"You never find out what he does for a living, which I love,” Bob reveals. “It’s financial stuff, but he’s like Michael Corleone—we never talk about his business.”

Bob doesn’t have to go far to be inspired for his new gig. He just taps into a slice of his own real life.

“I was taking my youngest daughter to school this morning and the pool broke,” says the single dad of three. “And then we had a security issue in the neighborhood. Life imitates art all around.”

Still, Bob feels that his former Full House audience will connect with his new series.

“They’re older now, and it’s a domestic sitcom with a 2009 feel to it. There’s financial troubles, and when we play the game of Life it turns into an argument.”

Yep, that definitely happens in the suburbs!

Surviving Suburbia premieres Monday, April 6 at 9:30 p.m. on ABC.

Roasting & Packing!

August 6th, 2008 / Author: OK! Staff

Well, this has been an incredibly busy week! 

Cody and I went to several events this weekend including the Teen Choice Awards Pre-Party, the Maxim X Games party and The Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget. All the while, trying to pack and get ready to take off for our trip to North Carolina. 

It was a lot of fun though, the most enjoyable was probably Bob’s roast since I got to see several of the Full House cast members. Dave Coulier, Lori Loughlin, John Stamos, Scott Weinger and of course Bob were all in attendance.

It was a hilarious show! Definitely not kid friendly though, but for all the adults out there I think it’s a must see. I think it airs on August 17th on Comedy Central. They weren’t too mean to most of the people on the show, although the Olsen Twins did get quite a few jokes made at their expense. At times they went a bit far and were mean to them, but I guess that’s to be expected at a roast. No one is safe! 

Then yesterday and today has been consumed with packing. You don’t realize how much stuff two people and a baby need for a few weeks until you have to fit it into your car! But we stuffed it all in and Cody drove off this afternoon — To be a fly on the wall in that car all the way across country!! Ha! He’s driving because he’s never flown before and is scared… We’ll have to work on that. 

More exciting Zoie news, she’s getting her first two teeth! I can’t believe it! Of course, now she’s pretty fussy all the time and I’m sort of dreading having to fly with her. I think we’ll survive it though! I just have to hope she sleeps the whole way. 

I’m getting more and more nervous about the movie, but it should go great. It’s a fun script and there are some really nice people working on the project. So now I just have to keep my fingers crossed that Zoie, Cody and I have safe, easy travels and by this time next week we’ll be in North Carolina!

Candace Cameron Bure Shares Parenting Tips

June 10th, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jodie Sweetin may have just given birth to her first child, but it’s Candace Cameron Bure who has the Full House. Married to retired hockey player Valeri Bure, the former child star has three kids, Natasha, 9, Lev, 8, and Maksim, 6, and is more than happy to dispense some child-rearing advice to her celluloid sister.

“I could give tons of advice!” Candace tells OK!. “I’m years ahead of her in parenthood! My favorite book that I would recommend for her and her baby, Zoie, is brand new — BabyWise. It helps your child sleep through the night, and helps you put your baby on a schedule. It’s so important. So that’s my first advice to her.”

While the two co-stars have lost touch over the years, Candace says they recently reconnected when she learned of the 26-year-old’s pregnancy and is looking forward to meeting Zoie.

“I just sent her a gift and we’ve e-mailed,” she says. “But I haven’t talked to her and I haven’t seen the baby. I will soon, because we’re going to be in L.A., so I’ll see her when I go out there next month.”

Possibly joining them could be Bob Saget and Dave Coulier, whom the petite blonde talks to “all the time” and is “very close” to. The same can’t be said for Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen though. While the cast tries to reunite at least once a year, Candace says the twins are often MIA.

“They are actually the only ones that I don’t keep in touch with,” she says. “Our lives are just so different. There’s a big age difference, too. We’ve kind of taken different paths, so I haven’t talked to them in a few years.”

These days, Candace is working with Six Flags’ A Walk in the Park, a walk-a-thon affiliated with the Children’s Miracle Network. The 32-year-old will serve as a celebrity ambassador for one of the parks in an effort to raise money for children’s cancer research and treatment.

"All the money that’s raised at each location will stay within that community and go to those specific hospitals," she says. "You can go to the website to sign up – like any other walk-a-thon – raise funds, you go, and then the walk is through the whole park will all the roller coasters, and then you can spend the rest of the day enjoying the park."

On screen, the actress can be seen in the flick The Wager, now out on DVD, a "faith-based film" about resisting Hollywood seduction. "I play this temptress tempting a married man," she says.

The project was Candace’s first in six years as she had stepped out of the limelight to focus on motherhood. And yes, her kids are Full House fans.

“I don’t really think that they care that it’s me,” Candace says. “They just really like the show and think that Michelle is really funny. They just like it! They kind of giggle if I ever have a boyfriend and kiss him on the show, ‘Mommy! You’re kissing another boy!’ I tell them, ‘It was before I met your dad, so it doesn’t count!’”

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OK! Exclusive: A Full House Dinner Date

December 13th, 2007 / Author: cwillett

It was a full house on Dec. 12 at the Bowery Hotel when none other than the Tanner family clan came in to play!

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, John Stamos and Bob Saget gathered at the New York City hotel at 11:30 p.m. and headed straight for a table for four to satiate Ashley’s grumbling stomach, an eyewitness tells OK!.

“I’m starving!” Ashley, 21, proclaimed immediately upon greeting her former co-stars, causing her TV dad to placate, “Whatever you want, you can get.”

While Ashley, sipping on a glass of red wine, hustled her family into the main dining room, her sis, clad in a green silk caftan and flats, hung back to chat with Uncle Jesse and socialite pal Derek Blasberg with a Heineken in hand before joining her crew.

“They were having a blast!” the source tells OK!. “Ashley was sucking down a plate of spaghetti bolognese and laughing like a 60-year-old man!”

That’s possibly from funnyman Bob, who had the whole table in an uproar — even interrupting a deep 10-minute conversation between Mary-Kate and John, the eyewitness says. Intense!

Bob Saget Talks Olsens

November 8th, 2007 / Author: OK! Staff

At the Scleroderma Research Foundation event in New York City, Bob Saget, the man who once played single dad Danny Tanner on the ABC hit Full House, spoke candidly and jokingly about his former TV daughters Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. The actor ,who is currently on Broadway in The Drowsy Chaperone, hosted the event, which is close to his heart as his sister died of the disease 13 years ago.

Despite the evening’s well-intentioned setting, the conversation always seemed to turn to those Olsen twins. When asked about the rumored romance between Ashley and Lance Armstrong he joked, “I know nothing! I am in The Drowsy Chaperone; I’m not a chaperone.”

But he later added, “I’ve known Lance for a little while, we did a benefit together for ALS together in Vegas, he’s a remarkable guy, and I’ve known Ashley a while, so — I’m not good at the tabloid news at all, I apologize.”

And what about Bob’s love life? Well he’s found love in Michelle Galtchi, “I’ve been dating for a year and half, which is a lot. That’s not her age, either. I mean, she’s older than that.”

Very funny, Bob!

By Jocelyn Vena

Just Another Star-Packed New York Night!

November 7th, 2007

The Scleroderma Research Foundation event in New York City was star packed and everyone from Robin Williams to Jimmy Fallon stopped by to support Bob Saget and the cause. Jimmy Fallon told OK! all about his future wedding plans, “Very very excited for it. I’m still thinking of whether we’re going to make a big one or a small one; what we’re going to do is still up in the air. But my fiancée, which is a cool word to say for a little while even though I’m not allowed to say fiancée, is very excited about it. We’re looking forward to it!”

 

Meanwhile Gilbert Gottfried, who we last saw at the Friars Club Roast, updated OK! on what he’s been doing these days, “I did an episode of Hannah Montana, but I don’t know when that’ll air. I did a DVD of Jack and the Beanstalk, believe it or not. And I’ve got my Dirty Joke DVD out.” And we wondered if any of the dirty jokes ended up on Hanna Montana, “Yes, yes I’ve used total filth there — it’ll be the X-rated Hannah Montana.”

 

And while Gilbert has been busy, Robin Williams has been just the opposite. He said, “I’m doing nothing. Nothing at all. I’m doing Obama on Ice — part of the whole campaign a year early, you know, there’s never enough foreplay in politics!”

 

And finally Dana Delany, who plays the newest housewife on the Desperate Housewives block had nothing but good things to say about her time on the show. “They’ve been great. The good thing was I knew all of them beforehand just from over the years. It’s kind of like family. It’s fun. I’m having a ball!”

 

 

By Jocelyn Vena

 

 

You Can’t Always Get What You Want…

August 28th, 2007

I don’t care what you see in the movies; sometimes, no matter how hard we try to please everyone, celebrity journalists don’t always get everything they want.

My editors bent over backwards to cover for me while I headed to meet Kevin Kline at the press day for his new movie Trade. It was a Monday, so the whole OK! staff was racing against the clock to close the issue on deadline — all this after a weekend with several still-breaking news stories like Owen Wilson’s alleged overdose and a serious car crash involving Hulk Hogan’s son. Meanwhile, I schlep all the way across Manhattan in the August heat to the junket, only to be told that Kevin Kline’s reps have declined at the last minute! “I’m sorry, Val,” the publicist for the movie says, before asking me to stay for the other actors. Aggh! I can’t stay—we’re closing the issue. OMG, I wasted a night watching this horrifying kidnap prostitution movie just so I could ask Kevin about appearing on Broadway with Jennifer Garner in Cyrano De Bergerac and, oh yeah, his marriage to ’80s icon Phoebe Cates.

Making matters worse, this all meant that I was missing out on interviewing Bob Saget, whose comedic melody "Danny Tanner Is Not Gay" had Prince Charming and I cracking up over the weekend. Also, I’d gotten the chance to interview Jodie "Stephanie Tanner" Sweetin last year, so that would mean I’d had face time with half of TV’s Tanner family. Sigh. Luckily, OK!’s roving reporter Jocelyn Vena was on hand at the FYE store in Midtown for Bob’s signing to get the scoop from Bob himself, in town to promote new DVD Bob Saget: That Ain’t Right. While all personal and Olsen twin–related questions were out-of-bounds, Bob was remarkably cordial. “I only had three minutes with him because he was late to the signing and they had to rush to get my interview,” she says. Why does the former Full House father veer toward dirty jokes?

"I don’t want to haze people with my humor,” Bob told OK!. “I’m not a practical joke guy. I don’t enjoy practical humor. I guess it’s funny to watch people being made into idiots, but I’d rather see someone pretending to be an idiot than actually being made into one."

Ooh! I got new albums from Shaggy (out Oct. 16) and Brooks & Dunn (out Oct. 2) in the mail, in addition to an invitation to Hard Rock Cafe’s Ambassadors of Rock featuring Willie Nelson and Friends. I’ll try to stop by, but I’ve got a gazillion fashion shows and movie premieres calling my name that evening.

Because our resident movie reviewer is out, I’ll be seeing even more movies than usual this week. Hard to believe, I know, because my record in a normal week is three in one day. Waah! I popped into detective drama In The Valley of Elah, starring Charlize Theron, Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones before heading home.

BTW, Superbad is superfunny. McLovin it.

Bob Saget: Alyson Used to Be My Babysitter!

August 27th, 2007

Bob Saget’s HBO special Bob Saget: That Ain’t Right, comes out tomorrow on DVD. It is dirty and off the cuff. This is an aspect of Bob’s stand-up that is now a well-known tidbit, though to some it’s still surprising that the man famous for playing Danny Tanner on Full House has such a naughty stand-up routine. “I think to some people it still is. I’ll go to colleges and I’ll go to a theater and it’s a couple thousand people. People are coming, expecting it. Maybe half the audience is uneducated to the stand-up, not that they need to be educated… but they already get the joke.”
For those who may have missed the special, which aired on Aug. 25, they can catch it as well as some extras on the DVD. One includes the skit he did with Jamie Kennedy called “Rollin’ With Saget,” which Bob insists “Jamie Kennedy is completely responsible for. They did it and I just showed up.” Another segment is a man-on-the-street piece he taped in New York City.
Also, Bob will be returning for the third season of How I Met Your Mother, where he narrates the show as an older Ted Mosby. “I think it’s an adorable show. I’m kind of the under-the-radar guy,” he says. “I’m like Daniel Stern in the Wonder Years. And it’s a very easy, nice thing to be a part of. It’s an honor to be a part of a show I like.”
He adds, “It’s really those guys’ show and they write such a great show. And I know a lot of people from it. I know Alyson Hannigan because she used to be my babysitter. Josh is very talented and so is Jason. And Neil Patrick Harris I’ve known since he was young because he was on Doogie and I was on ABC. And he’s so good and so funny.”
By Jocelyn Vena
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