Sam Nivola is addressing his “nepo baby” label.

The actor sat down with Cooper Koch for Variety‘s Actors on Actors, where they both shared their experiences on their respective recent projects: Koch’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story and Nivola’s The White Lotus.

Nivola is the son of actors Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola, both of whom have long careers on screen. The White Lotus actor shared that both his parents actually advised him against following in their footsteps.

“My whole thing was that my parents really didn’t want me to be an actor, which I totally get — I don’t know if I’d want my kid to be an actor,” Nivola, 21, admitted. “It’s a really mentally tough career to be in.”

He continued, “Even if I had no success, I would want to be doing it. But they really didn’t want me to do it.”

Nivola has appeared in a number of big projects in recent years, including The Perfect Couple and White Noise — the latter in which Sam’s sister, May Rose, also featured. Their parents were “green with envy” that they’d be spending so much time with Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig. But still, Alessandro told PEOPLE in 2021 that acting “definitely wasn’t something we were encouraging” for their children.

The film’s director, Noah Baumbach, went to Sam and May’s school, seeking children to cast in the film, Alessandro said. Baumbach was thrilled at the opportunity to cast the two Nivola children, he added.

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“At that point, it felt cruel to tell them they couldn’t do it because it was such a high-class project,” Alessandro said.

Sam and May never enlisted their parents for acting advice, though. “They never come to me for advice for anything,” Alessandro said with a laugh. “They haven’t even asked me once to read through a scene with them.”

Alessandro and Mortimer — who most recently featured in Kraven the Hunter and Paddington in Peru, respectively — wed in 2003.

Summer vacation is officially back. Nearly 10 years after Phineas and Ferb wrapped up its epic four-season run on the Disney Channel, the animated series is bringing back many of the original voices for 40 new episodes.

The new season of the Emmy-winning series will stick to the classic formula, following brilliant stepbrothers Phineas (Vincent Martella) and Ferb (David Errigo Jr.) as they enjoy another 104 days of summer adventures. Meanwhile, Candace (Ashley Tisdale) remains determined to find someone — anyone — who will stop her inventive little brothers once and for all.

Also returning? Their pet platypus, Perry (Dee Bradley Baker), who continues his double life as the suave Agent P, who’s always one step ahead of Dr. Doofenshmirtz (Dan Povenmire), the bumbling evil scientist trying to take over the Tri-State Area.

Joining Martella and Tisdale are several familiar voices, including Caroline Rhea, Alyson Stoner, Richard O’Brien, and more. Plus, season 5 will feature a surprising array of guest voices from the likes of Michael Bublé, Alan Cumming, Anna Faris, and John Stamos.

Need a refresher? Here’s your guide to the Phineas and Ferb revival’s cast and characters.

Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday Addams will flex her dry wit (and arsenal of sharp instruments) in the second season of Netflix’s Wednesday, a deliriously twisted riff on the Addams Family franchise from director and executive producer Tim Burton.

Wednesday was a breakout hit in 2022, breaking free from the echo chamber of Netflix to flood TikTok and Instagram feeds the world over.

The pressure’s on to deliver a worthy follow-up, and Ortega, who signed on as a producer for season 2, is prepared. Not only has the star teased a scarier season 2, but she’s also helped recruit a supporting cast of top-notch talent, from Steve Buscemi and Joanna Lumley to pop idol Lady Gaga.

“We certainly set out to really stretch ourselves and stretch what the show could do and see where our characters could go,” said co-creator Miles Millar in a recent chat with Entertainment Weekly. “The last thing you want is people to be disappointed having waited for so long. We really want to ensure that the show is loaded with surprises and comedy and action, and that they see the characters they love, but also introduce new ones.”

Ahead of the season’s premiere — it drops in two installments on Aug. 6 and Sept. 3 — let’s reacquaint ourselves with Wednesday’s returning players and get to know the dark-eyed newbies haunting the halls of Nevermore Academy.

This is bananas.

Designer and stylist Rachel Zoe, who starred in her own reality show on Bravo, The Rachel Zoe Project, from 2008 to 2013, is returning to the network in the upcoming season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

Zoe made the announcement Friday in a video posted to social media that she captioned, “Here we go again @bravotv !!! I am officially joining #TheRealHousewivesofBeverlyHills and back with my Bravo family. Let’s do this!”

“It’s official,” she said in the accompanying footage. “I am coming back to Bravo. I am joining the cast of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. It’s been a while, and you’ve been asking me to come back to television. And I said when the stars align or it makes sense or I have enough to say to share with all of you and now is the time.”

She added that she’s “really excited to be with all of you again, and I hope you are too. So let’s have some fun.”

The official account for the network commented, “WELCOME BACK! Let’s do this.”

Zoe’s former show centered around her preparing her high-end, often celebrity clientele for events. and Kate Hudson and Jennifer Garner are among those who made appearances. Her interactions with designers including Diane von Furstenberg and Marc Jcobs were featured, too.

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Actress Leslie Bibb said that she had “based one character totally on some part of Rachel Zoe, like that world,” on a March episode of SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live.

The reality show she joins has been on the air since 2010 and, like its sister shows, has an evolving cast. The cast on the most recent season, which ended in April, included Kyle Richards, Erika Jayne, Dorit Kemsley, Sutton Stracke, Bozoma Saint John, and Garcelle Beauvais. Kathy Hilton and Jennifer Tilly were friends of cast members who made appearances.

Beauvais said in March that she would not be returning.

Two crime series are finished at Fox.

The Cleaning Lady and Alert: Missing Persons Unit will not return for additional seasons on the network, Entertainment Weekly has learned.

The Cleaning Lady starred Élodie Yung as Thony De La Rosa, a Cambodian-Filipino surgeon working for a Las Vegas crime family as a cleaner. The series premiered in Sept. 2022 and ultimately ran for four seasons, the last of which aired its final episode on Tuesday.

The show was based on the Argentine series La Chica que Limpia, which itself only ran for one season and also inspired a Mexican remake that also lasted one season. Developed by Miranda Kwok (Spartacus: Blood and Sand, The 100), Fox’s American iteration of the series also starred Adan Canto (who tragically died from cancer after season 2), Oliver Hudson, Martha Millan, and Eva De Dominici, and later added Naveen Andrews, Kate del Castillo, and Santiago Cabrera to the cast. Special guest stars included Lou Diamond Phillips and Lea Salonga.

Kwok discussed the difficulty of making another season of The Cleaning Lady after Canto’s death in an interview with EW. 

“It was a real challenge for us, but more so it was so heartbreaking to lose Adan,” she said. “We had to figure out how to craft a season based on the circumstances that honors Adan as a human being and Arman as a character in the best way possible. We had to pivot a few times this season. We started crafting the season before we knew anything about what was happening and we were planning on digging into Arman’s backstory and his family.”

Kwok continued, “When we were first told that we may not have him [for the full season], we decided we still wanted to tell those stories and we wanted to leave an opening so he could come right back into the story. Unfortunately, when we lost him, we had to adjust.”

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Alert followed two members of the Philadelphia Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit as they searched for one missing person in every episode. Scott Caan led the series alongside Dania Ramirez, whose character was killed off at the end of season 2. 

Created by Jamie Foxx and John Eisendrath (The Blacklist, Outlaw), Alert premiered in Jan. 2023 and lasted for three 10-episode seasons. Season 3 premiered its finale on May 27. The series also starred Ryan Broussard, Adeola Role, Alisha-Marie Ahamed, and Graham Verchere.

Is Georgia convicted of murder?

No, Georgia is found not guilty of Tom’s murder. She has Ginny to thank, as her daughter convinced Austin and Cynthia to lie on the stand and thus secure her freedom.

Ginny convinces Austin to testify that he saw his father, Gil (Aaron Ashmore), murder Tom, telling him that the abusive Gil wants to take Austin away to Michigan if their mom is locked up. “It’s your dad or your mom,” she tells him. “You have to pick.”

Gil wasn’t there, obviously, but she cooks up a story about Gil seeking revenge against Cynthia after she blocked his application for an apartment.

Her next step? Getting Cynthia to play along. She goes to Cynthia’s house, revealing that she knows about Cynthia’s affair with Joe, and that she has footage from Blue Farm’s security cameras to prove it. “My mom might not drag you down with her, but I would,” threatens Ginny.

Afraid of being found out, Cynthia admits under oath that it’s possible Gil could have been at her house that day. Later, however, she finds out from Joe that there are no cameras at Blue Farm. Ginny lied to her.

“Wow, that whole family’s insane,” she remarks.

How does the trial impact the Millers?

While Georgia is thankful to be free and reunited with her family, the press around the murder and the trial will nevertheless affect the family’s future. “Wherever we go, we can’t run from ourselves,” Ginny tells her mother. “This is our lives now. We’re this. Forever.”

Zion (Nathan Mitchell), Ginny’s father, knows Austin lied on the stand. Fearing the impact Georgia is having on her kids, he files for joint custody.

Georgia, too, is worried about Ginny’s behind-the-scenes machinations. “I want you to be careful about the person you’re becoming,” she tells her daughter. “I know what it’s like to cross a line you can’t come back from. I don’t want that for you and I don’t want that for Austin… I do hard things so you don’t have to. I know I’m a monster. I don’t want you to turn into monsters, too.”

And it’s true that Ginny is changing. After seeing the pieces fall into place during the trial, she smiles. “It’s intoxicating, having the power to control the game,” she narrates.

Later, she puts pressure on Georgia to stay on the straight and narrow. “I’m glad you changed, Mom. Make sure it sticks,” she says. “Don’t make me regret setting you free.”

While her and Georgia are on solid ground, she and Austin are in a darker place. As the finale draws to a close, he lashes out at her, clearly scarred by having to falsely implicate his father, no matter how complicated their relationship.

“It’s impossible to go through things unscathed,” Ginny narrates. “But the question is: Can you control how you change? Are you in control at all?”

“No one in the Miller family will be the same after this season,” showrunner Sarah Glinski told Entertainment Weekly in a season 3 postmortem. “We talk about Georgia changing, but Ginny has changed, Austin has changed, and there’s no going back.

Is Marcus going to be okay?

It was a turbulent season for Marcus (Felix Mallard) after he and Ginny’s split last season. By the end of season 3, the two are back together, but he’s still struggling with his mental health.

His depression resulted in his grades slipping as he began drinking heavily. To begin the next school year as a junior, he’ll need to attend summer school. In the finale, however, he suffers a breakdown after a night of heavy drinking and his family decides he needs to attend a rehab clinic.

On the drive to rehab, however, he finds a poem Ginny wrote about him in his bag. It brings a tear to his eye, helping to assure him that she’ll be waiting for him once he’s out.

Do Georgia and Paul break up?

Yes, Georgia and Paul split this season as the blowback from the trial — and Paul’s support of Proposition 38, disastrous for small businesses — imperiled his mayoral career. Her lying to him about being pregnant didn’t help, either.

He pounds the final nail into their relationship during a heated argument in the finale. “You never loved me. You wanted to be married to the mayor. You just used me,” he spits. “You turned me into the worst possible version of myself, because you are insidious and you poison good things.”

She accepts his anger, but leaves him with a pointed reminder: “I didn’t make you anything that wasn’t in there already.”

Does Georgia end up with Joe?

Kind of? Joe confronts her in the finale, accusing her of killing Tom. She readily admits that, yes, she did. She also informs him that she killed her last husband, too, and that she gets it if he doesn’t want anything to do with her. Shockingly, he does, and the pair lock lips.

But it’s not so simple. She “needs to settle down a minute” after “jumping from guy to guy,” if only for the sake of her family.

“What she gets from Joe, she’s not going to crave until she’s her most authentic self and she hasn’t been there yet,” series creator Sarah Lampert told EW. “But Joe doesn’t care about image. Joe doesn’t care what people think about him, truly at all. So I think the things that Georgia really values deep in her core, which is loyalty and family, those are Joe’s core also.”

Is Georgia pregnant?

Earlier in the season, Georgia lied to Paul about being pregnant. In the final moments of the season, though, it’s implied that, no, Georgia really is pregnant. She only drinks milk when she’s pregnant, after all, the season ends with her chugging a jug.

So, who’s the father? She recently slept with both Paul and Joe.

Speaking with EW, Lampert and Glinski revealed that an answer is forthcoming. “What’s so fun about working with such talented writers is how Glinski and I entered this season is we were like, ‘Okay, we know whose baby it is. Change our mind.’ Then we spent a whole day with the writers, and it was contentious,” said Lampert. “There was a debate over how the storylines could go based on whose baby it was and all that. But no, we’ve landed on whose baby it is. I’ll say that.

How does the season 3 finale set up Georgia & Ginny season 4?

Georgia & Ginny season 4 is officially on the way, and the season 3 finale teased what’s to come with several specters from Georgia’s past resurfacing.

First, she received a call from her father, Shane, currently imprisoned in New Mexico. “I’ve wanted to talk to you for so long, and if i can find you anyone can,” he warns, calling Georgia by her birth name, Mary. “Your mom, your stepdad. Mary, you have to be careful.”

Later, we catch a brief glimpse of her mother and stepfather driving past her house. When asked about their appearance, Lampert said the theme of season 4 is “cycles and origins,” adding that it will “[grapple] with Georgia’s past.”

Where can I watch Ginny & Georgia?

All three seasons of Ginny & Georgia are currently streaming on Netflix.

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Kelly Clarkson wants y’all to get your minds out of the gutter.

An interview with Benicio del Toro on the latest episode of Clarkson’s eponymous talk show went hilariously off the rails when she asked the Oscar winner if continuity was, ahem, “real hard in that area” for his bathtub scene in The Phoenician Scheme… and the studio audience reacted exactly the way you’d expect.

“You get so into trying to figure out the riddle of getting it right that you just forget [you’re in the bathtub], and then the next day you’re all crinkly like a prune,” del Toro told Clarkson of the scene in question.

“How do you not look like a prune by hour one?” Clarkson wanted to know.

“You get a good hair and makeup person to take care of it,” del Toro told her, to which Clarkson remarked that she “prunes up like 20 minutes in” the water. “Yeah, continuity… must have been real hard in that area, yes,” she added.

As del Toro and the audience immediately started to laugh, Clarkson realized the accidental innuendo. “No, no, no!” she shouted, standing up to comically chastise the audience. “I did not mean… I am way too tired,” she said with a laugh.

“I did not even mean that, I meant you’re pruny. Nasty people. No, no, that’s not on me. Usually it is,” she added, as the audience continued to laugh at her expense.

Del Toro previously opened up to Entertainment Weekly about the bathtub scene, which serves as the opening credits scene to the new Wes Anderson film. In the scene, Zsa-zsa Korda (del Toro) is shown recovering after his latest assassination attempt. Shot in slow motion from overhead, the sequence features a bandaged and bloodied Korda eating, reading, and smoking in his bath as assorted nurses and household staff flit around him as if in a ballet.

Initially del Toro, who had to sit in the tub for an estimated eight hours, had his doubts. To achieve the scene’s hypnotic slow-motion effect, Anderson asked his actors to move unnaturally fast, leading del Toro to question whether the technique would translate on screen. “So if I’m smoking, I got to smoke fast. If I eat, I got to eat fast,” the actor recalled. “So I said [to Anderson], ‘What? I mean, doesn’t that defeat the purpose? If you’re doing it in slow motion, we might as well shoot it normal.’ And he said, ‘No, no, no, it’s going to be different.’ I said, ‘Okay.'”

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In the end, the choreography paid off. Del Toro explained, “When I saw it, it’s just like, it is different than just shooting at a normal speed. It is different. It has this quality that is unique — it’s kind of like a musical in a way, without dancing, let’s put it that way. But the movement and the way it is, it’s a beauty.”

He added, “That’s one of those things that you think you’ve figured it all out. And here I am doing another movie with a great director, and he’s telling me to do this, and I go home, and I’m glad I was a prune for about five days after that sequence. It’s just really a cool sequence.”

The Phoenician Scheme is in theaters now. Watch Clarkson’s unintended double entendre above.

Booted Love Island contestant Yulissa Escobar has apologized for using the N-word in resurfaced podcasts that led to her departure from the Peacock dating show.

“First, I want to apologize for using a word I had no right in using. Podcast clips from years ago have recently resurfaced, and I want to address it directly,” Escobar posted on Instagram Friday. “In those clips, I used a word I never should’ve used, a racial slur. I used it ignorantly, not fully understanding the weight, history, or pain behind it. I wasn’t trying to be offensive or harmful, but I recognize now that intention doesn’t excuse impact. And the impact of that word is real. It’s tied to generations of trauma, and it is not mine to use.”

She noted, “At the time, I was speaking casually in conversation, not thinking deeply or critically about what I was saying. But that doesn’t take away from how wrong it was. The truth is, I didn’t know better then, but I do now. I’ve taken the time to reflect, to learn, and to grow from that moment.”

Escobar, who was described as a 27-year-old mobile bar owner from Miami, said she’s no longer the same person who did that.

“I’ve changed a lot since then, not just in how I speak, but in how I show up, how I carry myself, and how I honor the experiences of others.” Escobar vowed. “Growth means recognizing when you were wrong, even if it’s uncomfortable, and choosing to move forward with humility and accountability.”

After warning against “fake statements circulating,” she ended her message adamantly.

“To those who are disappointed or offended, I understand and I apologize,” Escobar said. “I am sorry.”

The apology was accompanied with an image of the words “owning my mistakes speaking my truth.”

Escobar’s apology came two days after she was absent from the second episode of season 7, which debuted Wednesday. It began with a message that “Yulissa has left the villa,” and a representative for the show had confirmed her departure to EW. But no reason was given.

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The cast change followed TMZ‘s Tuesday publication of footage from Escobar’s relevant podcast appearances.

Fans of the show had already commented on her cast portrait on social media that they planned to eliminate her early because of what she’d said.

Lies, murder, and major mommy issues — just another day in the fictional town of Wellsbury, Mass. Netflix’s binge-worthy hit Ginny & Georgia just wrapped up its third season, and true to form, it left audiences reeling.

The series follows Ginny (Antonia Gentry), a smart and angsty teen, and her fiercely protective mom, Georgia (Brianne Howey), as they try to make a fresh start in a cozy town while outrunning Georgia’s criminal past.

Season 3 wasted no time, picking up right where season 2 left off — with Georgia’s arrest for murder. There are more jaw-dropping twists and emotional moments than ever, and while it delivered plenty of surprises, there’s still a whole lot left simmering beneath the surface.

That said, when will we get to watch Ginny & Georgia season 4? Here’s everything we know so far, from a release date to plot details.

Will there be a season 4 of Ginny & Georgia?

Great news, peaches: The chaos in Wellsbury is far from over. Way back in May 2023, Netflix gave Ginny & Georgia a double renewal, picking up the beloved series for seasons 3 and 4.

Sarah Glinski was also named the new showrunner, taking over from Debra J. Fisher, who led the first two seasons, per Deadline.

What happened in Ginny & Georgia season 3?

The stakes are sky-high in season 3 of Ginny & Georgia, as Georgia is on trial and faces the very real possibility of going to prison for murdering Tom (Vincent Legault). But come on, did anyone really think Georgia would end up behind bars? (Besides the series’ writers, of course.)

Just when it looks as if Georgia will leave the courtroom in cuffs, her kids pull off the unthinkable. Ginny persuades her younger brother, Austin (Diesel La Torraca), to lie under oath and testify that he saw his father, Gil (Aaron Ashmore), commit the crime. It’s a risky move that saves Georgia from spending time in jail.

However, Georgia becoming a free woman doesn’t mean everything is back to normal. In the final moments of season 3, fans discover that she’s pregnant. Given that she recently slept with both her ex, Paul (Scott Porter), and will-they-won’t-they lover Joe (Raymond Ablack), the baby-daddy mystery is bound to make things messy.

Meanwhile, season 3 also turns its attention to Marcus (Felix Mallard) and Max’s (Sara Waisglass) stories. Marcus and Ginny officially get back together in the finale, but he’s still struggling with his mental health and ends up in rehab after hitting rock bottom.

Max is left trying to hold everything (and everyone) together while juggling way more than she lets on. “We put the burden of Marcus onto Max, and we see how much she does deeply care about everyone in her life,” Lampert explained to Entertainment Weekly in a season 3 postmortem.

Glinski added, “She has such a responsibility to fix things and to make sure everyone she loves is okay, and she takes that burden on every single day, even if people don’t appreciate it.”

What will Ginny & Georgia season 4 be about?

While season 3 has already dropped and delivered its fair share of ridiculous drama, fans shouldn’t get too cozy because season 4 is coming in hot with even more secrets, scandals, and explosive revelations.

“What we can say about season 4 is that the theme is cycles and origins,” series creator Sarah Lampert told EW. “So that kind of answers your question a little in the sense that we’ll be grappling with Georgia’s past, but I won’t go into specifics.”

Glinski added, “No one in the Miller family will be the same after this season. We talk about Georgia changing, but Ginny has changed, Austin has changed, and there’s no going back.”

And yes, before you ask, we will find out who the father is.

“There was a debate over how the storylines could go based on whose baby it was and all that,” says Lampert. “But no, we’ve landed on whose baby it is. I’ll say that.”

The duo elaborated on Austin’s character in conversation with TheWrap, saying that season 4 will explore the aftermath of his decision to frame his father in the season 3 finale.

Lampert hints that the boy’s journey could even take some dark or unexpected turns. “For Austin, his gene pool is Georgia and Gil, so if we’re talking nature versus nurture, where his character grows could potentially take a very interesting space, based on a) everything he’s been through, and b) who his parents are,” she said.

Plus, we can’t forget the phone call Georgia received from her incarcerated father in the finale. He warned her that if he could track her down from prison, anyone could. Later, we see Georgia’s mom and stepfather cruise past her house. All signs point to some problematic visitors heading to Wellsbury in season 4.

When is Ginny & Georgia season 4 coming out?

We hate to be the bearer of bad news, but a release date for season 4 of Ginny & Georgia has not been announced yet. However, the team that brings the show to life behind the scenes is already cooking up more twists and turns.

In February 2025, several months before season 3 was released, the official Ginny & Georgia Instagram account shared a sneak peek of the writers hard at work on a group Zoom call.

“First day of the season 4 writer’s room!!!” reads the caption. “Based on today alone, season 4 is going to be a RIDE.”

Speaking to EW in June, Lampert and Glinski confirmed that the writers’ room is going strong. The former added that her favorite part so far is having a pack made up entirely of returning scribes.

“Everyone in the room has worked on the show a prior season,” she said, adding, “So the group really knows the gang.”

Where can I watch Ginny & Georgia?

Craving a rewatch while you wait for more Wellsbury shenanigans? All three seasons of Ginny & Georgia are available to stream on Netflix.

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The ’90s were alive and well this weekend in Los Angeles when several cast members of Full House reunited for iHeartRadio’s How Rude, Tanneritos! Wedding Special live event.

Andrea Barber and Jodie Sweetin, castmates and co-hosts of the rewatch podcast, hosted the Sunday event that saw stars John Stamos, Lori Loughlin, Scott Weinger, and Marla Sokoloff reflect on their time on the show.

The highlight of the day’s special event was Stamos and Loughlin reliving Jesse Katsopolis and Rebecca Donaldson’s unforgettable love story, with the actors sharing behind-the-scenes stories from their iconic TV wedding.

Stamos starred as Uncle Jesse for all eight seasons of the original run of Full House, and was joined by Loughlin as his love interest, Aunt Becky, in season two. The pair eventually married in season four.

Both stars participated in the reboot, Fuller House on Netflix, though Loughlin was dismissed from season 5 after she was arrested in connection with the college admissions scandal in 2019.

In October 2023, while promoting his memoir If You Would Have Told Me, Stamos revealed that he had once considered dating Loughlin IRL. He said theirs was the “sort of true friendship that’s supposed to be the foundation of a great, lasting relationship” but, torn between Loughlin and eventual wife Rebecca Romijn, Stamos chose the latter. And we all know how that turned out.

The famous faces missing from the reunion were Dave Coulier, Candace Cameron Bure, and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.

The event marked one of the handful of times that the show’s cast members have reunited since the death of costar Bob Saget.

Saget died in 2022 from head trauma after accidentally hitting his head in a Grande Lakes, Florida hotel room. He was 65. Saget was in the midst of a stand-up tour, having performed the night of his death at the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall in Jacksonville and even tweeting he was “happily addicted again” to performing comedy.

The Full House cast has continually paid tribute to their TV patriarch since his death. Last May, on what would have been Saget’s 68th birthday, the cast were among a number of the late comedian’s friends and family who posted touching tributes to the actor,

Bure, who played eldest Tanner daughter D.J. on the sitcom, posted a similar video with the caption, “Happy birthday Bob Love you.” Bure’s video first shows photos of herself and Saget in chronological order from roughly 2013 to 2022, then ends with a few older photos that look like they’re from the era of Full House’s original run.

Coulier, who portrayed family friend Joey Gladstone on the series, shared his own montage of personal photos of his late costar, soundtracked by the Potash Twins’ “Outro,” which features a spoken word performance by Saget. “Today would have been my brother, Bobs birthday,” he wrote. “Missing him. ”

Kelly Rizzo, who was married to Saget from 2018 until his death, posted a video of Saget receiving a slice of cake with a massive sparkler candle from a previous birthday.

“Forever celebrated, forever loved, forever remembered, forever in all of our hearts,” she wrote. “Happy Birthday. Forever grateful for these memories, and this last birthday celebration together. Forever happy I got to see a smile on his face and happiness in his eyes. Look at how happy he was.”

Rizzo also shared a sweet anecdote about the night that the video was taken: “I will tell you a cute story about this night. See the little band-aid on his arm? During dinner he got a mosquito bite and kept scratching it until it bled… so he went up to the front desk and like four different restaurant workers frantically got him a Band-Aid and they all put the Band-Aid on him as if they were performing surgery-and it caused such a scene- and he came back to the table with this little Band-Aid and we both laughed because it was so silly.”