Bob Saget’s full house costar John Stamos & good pal John Mayer share long embrace at late star’s tragic funeral
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JOHN Stamos and John Mayer were spotted sharing a long, emotional hug at co-star and friend Bob Saget’s funeral.
The actor/comic died unexpectedly in Orlando at age 65.
6 John Stamos and John Mayer were spotted sharing an emotional embrace at Bob Saget’s funeral Credit: The Mega Agency
6 The duo also helped carry the coffin Credit: Splash
6 Bob died unexpectedly while touring the country and was found in an Orlando hotel room Credit: Getty Images - Getty
The duo - both longtime friends of Bob’s - were photographed hugging as they stood behind an open hearse, which carried the Full House lead’s casket.
Both their faces were covered in black masks.
They wore dark suits and appeared to embrace for some time.
Both the actor, 58, and musician were seen spending time at the home Bob shared with wife Kelly Rizzo prior to his death.
The pair - like others who visited in the wake of his passing - appeared stoic.
Stamos was met outside the house by Kelly, 42, who greeted him with a hug.
He wore a mask during their initial meeting, but was seen without it in his car looking devastated.
Stamos tweeted the morning of the funeral: “Today will be the hardest day of my life…”
FITTING FAREWELL
Many of Bob’s co-stars and friends were in attendance at the funeral on Friday, which was held at Mount Sinai Memorial Parks at Mortuaries at the Tanach Chapel.
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Jeffrey Ross, Mike Binder, Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, and Lori Loughlin were among the familiar faces spotted in the crowd.
Judd Apatow, Marc Maron, Jimmy Kimmel, Dave Chappelle, Kathy Griffin, Chris Rock and Seth Green also attended.
Mayer helped carry the coffin during the service.
A source on the scene said Kelly gave a touching speech the drew laughs as she called Bob “Batman” and described her late husband as her hero.
She said she was honored to be his wife, adding that he was her biggest critic in the kitchen and greatest supporter overall, according to the insider.
The source added: “She also joked about how he didn’t exactly know what she did for a living, she was very composed and had mourners laughing, but broke down in tears towards the end as she expressed her love for Bob.”
Paul Pressler, former president of Walt Disney Attractions, also gave a speech at the funeral, the source said.
He called the America’s Funniest Home Videos host a “brother,” giving an expletive-filled speech in which he explained everything Bob taught him through the years.
Bob’s daughters, whom he shared with ex-wife Sherri Kramer, also stepped up to the podium to give their own eulogies.
Prior to the funeral, many of the mourners who attended the funeral were seen at Kelly and Bob’s home in Brentwood, Los Angeles.
THE NEWS
The Sheriff’s Department and fire department responded to Bob’s hotel in Orlando around 4pm on January 9 after Bob was found unresponsive inside the room by hotel staff.
He was pronounced dead on the scene and is believed to have died of a heart attack.
Bob’s death was confirmed by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
“Earlier today, deputies were called to the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes for a call about an unresponsive man in a hotel room,” the office tweeted at the time.
They added: “The man was identified as Robert Saget & pronounced deceased on scene. Detectives found no signs of foul play or drug use in this case.”
Bob’s family later released a statement to Us Weekly saying: “We are devastated to confirm that our beloved Bob passed away today.
“He was everything to us and we want you to know how much he loved his fans, performing live and bringing people from all walks of life together with laughter.”
Bob and Kelly married in 2018.
He shared twins Aubrey and Lara Melanie and daughter Jennifer Belle with his first wife, Sherri, who was his high school sweetheart.
Bob had been touring the country when he died.
He was due to return home on Sunday morning. His family contacted the hotel after several unsuccessful attempts to reach him.
6 His wife, Kelly Rizzo, was stoic at the service Credit: Splash
6 Lori Loughlin, Bob’s Full House co-star, was in attendance along with her husband Credit: The Mega Agency
6 Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen also appeared at the funeral Credit: BackGrid
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John Mayer Taps Isaiah Sharkey, Celisse, Eric Krasno, More For PRS SE Silver Sky Demo [Watch]
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In celebration of his new PRS SE Silver Sky signature model guitar, John Mayer recruited a number of our favorite guitarists to take it for a test drive and make good on the new line’s slogan, “Tone For All.”
In a clip shared by PRS, the groove from Mayer’s Sob Rock track “Wild Blue” plays behind a series of soloists. Included in the procession are Ariel Posen, Lindsay Ell, Eric Krasno, Isaiah Sharkey, Chris Payton, and Celisse.
Part of the PRS SE line, the new model is a more affordable version of Mayer’s PRS Silver Sky signature model, initially released in 2018. As John Mayer noted in a separate video running down the new, cheaper guitar’s specs, “For 20 years now, parents have come up to me asking what electric guitar I think they should buy for their kid. And I never really had a good answer. I always felt either guilty for recommending something too expensive or guilty for recommending something that I didn’t think was very high-quality. … The Silver Sky SE is now the answer that I’ve been looking for because it’s affordable enough, but it’s also gonna stand up against the test of time and a lot of playing.”
For more information on the PSR guitars John Mayer signature SE Silver Sky—which retails for around $850 as opposed to the original Silver Sky’s $2,550—head here.
Watch Ariel Posen, Lindsay Ell, Eric Krasno, Isaiah Sharkey, Chris Payton, and Celisse solo over “Wild Blue” and hear John Mayer put the PRS SE Silver Sky to work in the clips below.
Isaiah Sharkey, Eric Krasno, Celisse, More Play “Wild Blue” (John Mayer) On Silver Sky SE
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Bob Saget Laid To Rest: John Stamos, John Mayer & More Attend Funeral For ‘Full House’ Star
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Bob Saget’s loved ones have bid him a final farewell
The late “Full House” star was laid to rest in a private funeral in Los Angeles on Friday, Access Hollywood has learned.
In addition to Saget’s wife, Kelly Rizzo, and his three daughters, Aubrey, Jennifer, and Lara, the comedian’s longtime friends and colleagues including John Stamos, Dave Coulier, Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, Lori Loughlin, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, John Mayer, Dave Chappelle, Jimmy Kimmel, Kathy Griffin and more were also reportedly in attendance.
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Stamos told Twitter followers hours earlier that he was bracing for the difficult event and shared a prayer to help ease his emotional turmoil.
“Today will be the hardest day of my life. God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference,” he wrote.
Saget died Sunday at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando, Fla., the local Sheriff’s department confirmed on Twitter. He was 65 years old. Authorities responded to the venue around 4 p.m. after hotel security found the actor unresponsive in his bed.
Law enforcement said in a press release that Saget was pronounced deceased at the scene and detectives found no sign of foul play or drug use. An official cause of death has yet to be made public.
The night before his passing, Saget performed at a comedy club in Jacksonville, Fla., and shared a now-bittersweet reflection on how his career had come full circle.
“I’m back in comedy like I was when I was 26. I guess I’m finding my new voice and loving every moment of it,” he wrote in part, captioning an Instagram selfie from the stage.
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Watch John Mayer and Jeff Ross’ Touching Tribute to Bob Saget After Picking Up His Car at LAX
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John Mayer and Jeff Ross are remembering their friend Bob Saget.
Just days after the actor was found dead in a Florida hotel, his pals decided to pick up his car from the Los Angeles International Airport. On their ride home, Mayer and Ross shared memories of Saget, who had been on his stand-up tour before his unexpected death.
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Taking to Instagram Live from the passenger seat of the vehicle as Mayer drove down California’s 405 Interstate on Jan. 12, Ross called Saget the “king of the comedy world” and “our big brother.”
Added Mayer, “I’ve just never known a human being on this earth who could give that much love individually and completely to that many people in a way that made each person feel like he was a main character in their life and they were a main character in his life.”
Indeed, Mayer said Saget’s “effusive and repeated expression of love is the greatest gift that he left people because all we have is the pain of his going and we don’t have to worry about the accounting.” As he put it, “The affairs are in order in terms of not having to wonder how Bob felt about us.”
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Mayer acknowledged he didn’t have much experience with loss and would have normally turned to Saget in a situation like this, calling him, “sadly, a graduate of the university of loss.” Saget lost his sister Andrea to a brain aneurysm and his sister Gay to scleroderma, leading the “Raising Dad” alum to join the Scleroderma Research Foundation’s board of directors and host fundraisers for the organization during his lifetime.
“You can’t synthesize something you needed to hear from someone that was important and that could have helped you,” Mayer said with tears in his eyes. “Because he would have put it in a way–I could come close, I can tell myself a lot of things from Bob are from Bob. I can’t tell myself what he would have told me about loss because I don’t know about loss. But he does and did and he would have told me something that I would’ve held onto. So the guy to help with this is the guy who’s not here.”
And while Mayer said Saget “had every excuse under the sun to be cynical, to be upset, to be distrusting of faith…[and] not to trust the system because in a lot of ways, a lot of times, that system failed him,” he chose not to. As the singer put it, “His joy and his innocence in the face of a life that really took from him in a lot of places was his middle finger to it all.”
Ross also spoke about Saget’s love for his wife Kelly Rizzo and his daughters Aubrey, Jennifer and Lara and paid tribute to the late “Full House” star.
“I really loved the guy,” he said at one point. “He was a comic before he was anything else. You know, I’ve heard from a 1,000 comics in the last couple days and he loved making people happy. It didn’t matter who you were. It didn’t matter your stature, your status. Bob was a rockstar without an assistant. Bob was a single dad for a long time. He raised three amazing, amazing people and he somehow took his TV family and also made them his real family, which is unheard of.”
At the end of their video, he signed off, “Long live King Saget.”
Saget was found dead inside a hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grand Lakes on Jan. 9. He was 65 years old. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said, “Detectives found no signs of foul play or drug use in this case.”
After news of Saget’s passing broke, several stars, including Mayer and Ross, paid tribute on Instagram.
“I love you, Bob,” the Grammy winner wrote. “I will never forget you. I will visit you often in my memories, and I hope I get to see you in my dreams. I will tell my kids about you. I’m taking you with me forever. I love you, Bob.”
Bob Saget’s loved ones and famous friends are mourning his sad and sudden loss after the “Full House” star died on Sunday at age 65.
WATCH: John Mayer Honors The Late Betty White With Special Performance Of “Thank You For Being A Friend”
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WATCH: John Mayer Honors The Late Betty White With Special Performance Of “Thank You For Being A Friend”
John Mayer paid tribute to the late Betty White on New Year’s Eve with a special performance on CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live.
During the New Year’s Eve special, Mayer made a special appearance to honor the beloved late actress by performing “Thank You For Being A Friend,” the theme song to her famed TV show, Golden Girls.
“John Mayer put together a little tribute to Betty White, and he sent it to us tonight. Take it away John Mayer, on tour this spring,” host Andy Cohen said before Mayer appeared on-screen.
“Thank you for being a friend / Traveled down a road and back again / Your heart is true, you’re a pal and a confidant,” Mayer sings in the clip. “And if you threw a party / Invited everyone you knew / Well, you would see the biggest gift would be from me / And the card attached would say / Thank you for being a friend.”
Watch Mayer’s tribute to the late actress below.
White passed away on New Year’s Eve (Dec. 31), which at the time her cause of death was unknown, however, on Monday (Jan. 10), TMZ reported that according to her death certificate, her cause of death was due to a “cerebrovascular accident,” which is “a loss of blood flow to part of the brain, resulting in brain tissue damage.”
TMZ also reported that her death certificate revealed that White suffered a stroke six days before her death. However, sources say White was alert and coherent following the stroke, and that she died peacefully in her sleep in her home.
White, who would have turned 100 on January 17, was a trailblazing entertainer. She starred in multiple shows throughout the past eight decades, including her most famous role as Rose Nylund in the famous sitcom The Golden Girls.
White was an eight-time Emmy Award winner and held the record for the longest TV career of any entertainer after making her acting debut in 1939.
“Even though Betty was about to be 100, I thought she would live forever,” her agent and longtime friend Jeff Witjas told PEOPLE in a statement. “I will miss her terribly and so will the animal world that she loved so much. I don’t think Betty ever feared passing because she always wanted to be with her most beloved husband Allen Ludden. She believed she would be with him again.”
Born in a suburb of Chicago in 1922, White was the only child of Tess and Horace White.
The family soon relocated to California where she was introduced to Hollywood.
After landing the lead role in a school play, she made her television debut just a month after graduating from high school.
Her credits include The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Proposal, Lake Placid, Hot in Cleveland, The Bold and the Beautiful and more.
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