Full House was the answer to the question, “What if you turned Three Men And A Baby into a family sitcom?” The show followed sports anchor Danny Tanner (the late Bob Saget), his brother-in-law Jesse (John Stamos), and his best friend (Dave Coulier, raising Danny’s kids after the death of his wife. The show aired for eight seasons between 1987 and 1995. Additionally, it received a five-season Netflix sequel, Fuller House, that began in 2016.
The children, three daughters, all went on to have incredibly successful careers. Eldest daughter D.J. was played by Hallmark Channel mainstay Candace Cameron Bure. Middle daughter Stephanie was played by Jodie Sweetin. Finally, the youngest daughter Michelle, who is a baby in Season 1, was played alternately by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. However, turns out that the Olsens might not have stuck around too long on Full House in another reality.
John Stamos Had The Olsens Fired
Appearing on the Good Guys Podcast, John Stamos revealed a shocking detail about the pilot of Full House. “[Dave Coulier] and I were changing the baby. We’re carrying the baby downstairs, I think I was holding on to their armpits and Dave was holding her little feet. We take her into the kitchen and hosed her down, we put a fan on her, wrapped her up in paper towels. She was screaming.” Stamos said. This lead to the twins being switched out, to little effect, “Both of them, they wanted to be anywhere else but there, and so did I. They were 11 months old, and God bless them. And they kept switching.”
Eventually, it got bad enough that filming was paused and the Olsen Twins were removed from set. Instead a pair of “red-headed twins” were brought in to serve as Michelle Tanner. However, those twins would end up being replaced by the Olsens again, this time permanently. “I’m sure their parents loved them and thought they were attractive. It had nothing to do with [them being] red-headed, but they weren’t attractive.” Stamos said of the Olsens’ brief replacements. The Olsen twins would remain with the show for the rest of its run, alternating as Michelle Tanner as she grew up. The Olsens would go on to have incredibly successful careers in the 90s and early 2000s before largely stepping away from the spotlight. However, maybe none of that would have happened if their replacements on Full House had been just a little more telegenic.
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