It’s wonderful that 40 years after initially assembly on Full Home — and a few even persevering with to look on the 2025 TV schedule — the forged members stay so shut. That is very true given the actors’ large age vary and differing comedic sensibilities. Nevertheless, Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber bought actual a few “bizarre query” they get from followers about simply how shut they had been to their co-stars, and it appears like individuals are complicated the Tanners with The Brady Bunch.
Full Home Vets Reveal A Query They Get About John Stamos
John Stamos could have performed heartthrob Jesse Katsopolis on Full Home (streaming with a Max subscription) and the spinoff Fuller Home (streaming with a Netflix subscription), however to the younger girls on the present, he was merely Uncle Jesse. That familial dynamic, nevertheless, hasn’t saved minds from questioning, and Andrea Barber (aka Kimmy Gibler) addressed that on the How Rude, Tannerinos! podcast, saying:
I feel it is like when folks ask us in media interviews, they’re like, did you ever have a crush on John Stamos? No, that may be a gross query. They’re like our older brothers, and we don’t consider them that means.
It’s not even the household factor that’s the most annoying about this query, however the indisputable fact that Jodie Sweetin was 5 years previous when Full Home began (13 by the finale). Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, in the meantime, had been 6 months previous — 8 years previous when it ended.
Even Candace Cameron Bure and Andrea Barber, who had been barely older at 11, had been in all probability a little bit younger to be growing a crush on somebody greater than 10 years older than them (at the least in the earlier seasons). Jodie Sweetin jumped in, including to what her co-host mentioned:
Not even older brothers. They’re like uncles.
Technically Jesse wasn’t an uncle to Kimmy, however the dynamic was nonetheless there, and Andrea Barber shut down any hypothesis to the opposite, saying:
There’s nothing remotely engaging about this. They’re simply our buddies. And yeah, that is form of a bizarre query.
The factor is, not all TV casts have been recognized to maintain issues 100% platonic. Yeah, I’m speaking about you, Brady youngsters.
Barry Williams Confirmed All The Brady Bunch Youngsters “Hooked Up”
They might have performed step-siblings on The Brady Bunch from 1969 to 1974, however these fraternal relationships didn’t keep chaste off the display screen. In celebrating the sitcom’s fifty fifth anniversary final yr, Barry Williams instructed US Weekly:
All of us attached with one another in some unspecified time in the future. Not essentially whereas we had been filming. I dated Maureen [McCormick], and Chris [Knight] dated Eve [Plum] and Michael [Lookinland] and Susan [Olsen] had a little bit mock marriage ceremony at one level. So, sure, all of us attached.
Sounds like there was quite a bit happening behind the scenes of The Brady Bunch and in the years that adopted. It’s humorous that the love connections occurred between the actors who performed the two oldest stepsiblings (Greg and Marsha), the center youngsters (Peter and Jan) and the youngest two (annoying TV siblings Bobby and Cindy).
A lot to Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber’s chagrin, I’m positive, that’s not the place the romantic pursuits stopped. Regardless of these Brady Bunch rumors driving Susan Olsen nuts, Barry Williams mentioned he did have a crush — if not an affair — together with his TV mother Florence Henderson. In the actor’s phrases:
I had a teenage crush on her, for positive, And she’s bought a really energetic character and nice humorousness, however I knew that I needed to have music in my profession [in] performing, and so I talked to her quite a bit about that. I had discovered this singer coming into the Copacabana close to Beverly Hills. I can’t consider precisely the place it was, however I invited her to go collectively as a date, and she or he mentioned, ‘OK,’ so I used to be thrilled. And now for me, it was a date.
Was there a kiss at the finish of that date?
I did go in for a little bit kiss and and, and she or he was good sufficient to return it. So it was a spotlight. Good little peck, sure.
A minimum of in the case of The Brady Bunch, all of the hookups appeared to be age applicable (I’m giving Florence Henderson the good thing about the doubt that the Barry Williams affair was one-sided), so it in some way feels much less skeezy than any Full Home crushes may need. If you wish to see what sort of chemistry the Brady blended household had happening, you’ll be able to watch previous episodes along with your Paramount+ subscription.