ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) — Yep, John Stamos tried to get the Olsen twins fired from Full House right around the time the show first started.
The 51-year-old actor told reporters at the TCA Press Tour in Beverly Hills that because they “cried a lot” on set when they were less than a year old, he wanted to see whether another set of young kids would work for the show.
He was questioned about the incident after a clip from Lifetime’s Unauthorized Full House Story was released and featured the actor playing Stamos trying to get rid of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, now 29, according to Entertainment Weekly.
“It was very difficult to get the shot. So I [gesturing], ‘Get them out…,’” he told reporters of the show that first aired in 1987. “That is actually 100-percent accurate. They brought in a couple of unattractive redheaded kids. We tried that for a while and that didn’t work. [Producers] were like, all right, get the Olsen twins back. And that’s the story.”
Stamos stars in the upcoming Fox series Grandfathered and is also working on a Full House spin-off for Netflix, Fuller House.
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