There are two sides to all celebrities: The squeaky-clean images forced upon the public by PR reps and their actual personalities. To provide you with a glimpse into the real Hollywood characters are Mollygood’s very own readers, telling tales of celebrity encounters big and small. Up this week: Reader Whitney H.'s family ties to Dave Coulier.
In July of 1999, my mom and I went back east to Long Island for a family reunion. About an hour into the festivities, my favorite cousin Jennifer (not her real name) brings her new fiance whom no one has met yet, Dave. My other cousins and I, who were 13 at the time, instantly recognized Dave as Joey Gladstone of Full House. He seemed OK when we recognized him but could clearly see he didn't want to make a big thing of it, so we didn't push him. Got a picture to prove he was there for you, sitting to the right of my mom and my cousin Jennifer. (I blurred everyone but Dave just in case they didn't want to be recognized.)
Next time I saw him was at the engagement party back in Los Angeles at the end of October. The entire cast of Full House was in attendance, including John Stamos and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (this was when she was filming the first X-Men movie, so she had blue paint under her nails). Those two were the sweetest people you will ever meet and they talked to me for a while. Rebecca made sure she and John said goodbye to me with hugs and kisses before they left. The Olsen twins, who were my age, only spoke to their co-stars, even though I had met Ashley a year earlier through a mutual friend. Candice Cameron-Burr (DJ) and her family were there, as well as Jodi Sweetin (Stephanie) and Andrea Barber (Kimmy). Bob Saget, his wife, their brats and their poor little dog were there and they were all assholes. Saget, as unfunny and untalented as he is, thought he was hot shit and didn't smile at any of us. Lori Laughlin (Rebecca) and Mossimo were there and they took the time to say hello, as I was a fan of his clothes and an aspiring fashion designer.
But I got to meet the real Dave Coulier. He was terribly controlling and not very warm and friendly as his persona would let on. Jennifer took us on a tour of the house during the engagement party. My family of Yankees fans wanted to check on the score of the World Series, so Jennifer let us into the study to watch the last few minutes of the game and not disturb the party. Big mistake, because apparently Dave didn't trust us not to mess with his library of videos or any of his things in general. Jennifer began pointing out to us his entire collection of Full House episodes, all sorted chronologically in sterile white cabinets built into the wall. You could see he was agitated because he began to talk down to her like a child. (She was a 29-year-old woman, by the way, and shared the house with him.) Her mother had to step in and defuse the situation. You could clearly see she was not a fan of this engagement and we were all in agreement — the novelty of the whole thing was wearing off quickly. It was then that I realized he looked down on all of us, something that had bothered me from the reunion.
The last time we all saw him was Thanksgiving, when he reluctantly stopped by with my cousin for about an hour. He looked like he wanted to leave as soon as he arrived and ignored us completely, even though he was sitting in our living room. He definitely was not missed when we found out they had broken up two months before the wedding.
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Hope your cousin found a more suitable candidate for a husban. If not, I hear Al Reynolds is available.
Crappy sticky "d" key.
That was a very distubing story. What a miserable shit.
No wonder Alanis Morrisette wrote that song about him. Hey uncle joey… what's it like to poop rainbows and money, while the rest of us only poop shit?
You, you, you - oughta know!
Jeez… I'm sorry you had to put up with their shit.
Did he ask you to go down on him in a theatre?
Does your cousin scratch her nails down someone else's back and hope Dave feels it?
Alanis Morrisette wrote that song about former NHL hockey player Mike Peluso, not Dave Coulier
but he seemed so nice on celebrity fit club or the surreal life or whatever that bullshit was. hmm…. i'm suspicious.
I thought the Charles in Charge guy was on Celebrity Fat Club and it was Balky Bartokomis (don't remember his real name) that was on Surreal Life….
I loved Ms. Toccara on Celebrity Fit Club. She was all about the Can Do spirit.
I had to look away from the T.V. a few times when Erin Moran got all stupidly drunk.
Here are the worst Erin's Drunk moments for me: getting drunk and making everyone go out look for her in the middle of the night.
Doing some ill advised pseudo sexy dance in the bus and embarrasing us ALL.
Girl can't hold her liquor.
Bob Saget: The illest motherf*cker in a cardigan sweater.
Bob Saget is really unfunny. His HBO stand up; way to try too hard to be edgy and offensive, BOB.
Perhaps, if you guys were Red Wings fans he would have been more pleasant?
Oh man, I think I'm the only person in the world who thinks Bob Saget is hilarious. But that also could be because I went to see him do stand up and was totally wasted.
That's when DMX and 50 Cent walked in
Bob stood up and said "Who are you again?"
At first all they did was sit around and stare
Til X pushed Bob and 50 hit 'em with a chair
He's in a cardigan, khaki's, shoes, and no socks
"You want hardcore muthaf*ckers?"
Pulled out a glock
"I got a cock like a donkey, hard as a rock. And a trigger finger itchier than chicken pox!"
I love that song.
For all you Bob Saget haters, don't forget about his celebrity Roast on Comedy Central. It airs this Sunday - my DVR is already set.
I was at yuk yuk's in Vancouver when dave was doing his act. We didn't know he was going to be there, otherwise we wouldn't have gone. It was an hour and a half of torture. I seriously wanted to off myself. I was with a big group of people and some guys we were with were heckling him. He was so un-funny it was unbearable. He even did that bullwinkle thing. ugh.