John Stamos Says Late Friend Bob Saget Is ‘Living Through’ His 8-Year-Old Son Billy, 4 Years After Actor’s Death (Exclusive)
John Stamos Says Late Friend Bob Saget Is ‘Living Through’ His 8-Year-Old Son Billy, 4 Years After Actor’s Death (Exclusive)
Escher Walcott, Amanda Champagne-MeadowsWed, October 14, 2026 at 10:46 AM UTC
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John Stamos and his son Billy, Bob SagetCredit: John Stamos Instagram; JC Olivera/WireImage“I swear to God, I see Bob and my son now all the time,” the Bob Saget Legacy Award recipient said in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE on Tuesday, Oct. 13 -
On Tuesday, Oct. 13, John Stamos received the Bob Saget Legacy Award — named in honor of his former costar and friend Bob Saget, who died in 2022
Stamos told PEOPLE at the event that Saget is “living through” his 8-year-old son Billy
The Full House costars remained close after working together on the sitcom and follow-up Fuller House
John Stamos still feels the spirit of his former costar Bob Saget four years after his death.
In an exclusive chat with PEOPLE at Scleroderma Research Foundation’s Cool Comedy Hot Cuisine fundraising event on Tuesday, Oct. 13, the actor and musician, 63, said he believes his late friend Saget is “living through” his 8-year-old son, Billy, as he reflected on the late actor’s legacy.
“I’ll tell you, he is really living through my son,” the Bob Saget Legacy Award recipient tells PEOPLE. “You know, I’m always looking for signs. Billy, my son, and I wrote a children’s book that’s coming out about hummingbirds. It’s about spirits from the past coming back. But I swear to God, I see Bob and my son now all the time.”
John Stamos and wife Caitlin (left) at Scleroderma Research Foundation’s Cool Comedy Hot Cuisine fundraising event in L.A. on Oct. 13Credit: Michael Tullberg/Getty
“He’s got toilet Tourette’s. Today he came home and said, ‘Mom, Dad, poop. That’s Bob.’ So Bob is making me laugh through my son, which is really special,” Stamos adds of his son, shared with his wife Caitlin, 39.
Saget was found dead in his hotel room at The Ritz-Carlton Orlando in Grande Lakes, Fla., on Jan. 9, 2022, at the age of 65. Authorities ruled that his death resulted from blunt head trauma sustained in an unwitnessed fall in the hotel room.
Stamos starred alongside Saget as Jesse Katsopolis and Danny Tanner in the beloved ABC family sitcom Full House, from 1987 to 1995. The pair reprised their roles for the 2016 reboot,Fuller House, which concluded in 2020.
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The nonprofit Scleroderma Research Foundation, which invests in medical research into scleroderma, introduced the Bob Saget Legacy Award in 2023 in memory of Saget, a longtime supporter and board member of the foundation.
Bob Saget and John Stamos in 2013Credit: Jesse Grant/Getty Images
Stamos said on Tuesday that receiving the award was “an honor,” but also bittersweet after his friend’s passing.
“Well, it makes me sad that he’s not here giving it to me. But it’s, you know, it’s an honor,” he tells PEOPLE. “Whatever few awards or things that I’ve received over the years, it’s just the most important to me. Especially to carry on.”
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“I mean, look, you know, people leave behind a legacy. You know, people talk about, you know, missing someone. But we never talk about really what they’ve left behind. Bob left this behind. Sure, there’s television, sitcoms and reruns and whatever. But this is a legacy. This is something to leave behind. And I just want to really acknowledge that,” he adds.
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