John Stamos Had the Olsen Twins Fired From FULL HOUSE as Babies Because of Their Crying

John Stamos is a well-known actor who has been delighting fans on TV and as a musician for decades, but no matter what he’s working on, he will always be known as Uncle Jesse from the series Full House. He was so good on that series, and arguably had the best relationship with the kids on the show. The series often featured scenes in which he and his niece Michelle had sweet one on one chats or snuggles, but their relationship didn’t start out so perfectly.

In a recent interview on the Good Guys podcast (via Insider), Stamos revealed that he had Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen booted from Full House when they were 11 months old, as their persistent crying on set drove him crazy. The firing only lasted a couple of days, as the replacement babies for the Olsen twins proved even worse to be around. Stamos, who played Jesse Katsopolis on all eight seasons of Full House, was filming a scene where his character and Dave Coulier’s Joey change Michelle Tanner’s diaper. The Olsen twins switched off playing Michelle during the show’s run.

“We’re doing the scene. Joey and I were changing the baby, right? And Danny [Bob Saget] is gone and said, ‘Take care of the kids.’ ‘Yeah, we got it. We got it.' So, we’re carrying the baby downstairs and we take her in the kitchen and we hose her down. And she was screaming. Both of them. They wanted to be anywhere else but there, and so did I.”

Stamos continued:

“They were 11 months old, and god bless them. They kept switching: ‘This one’s not gonna cry.’ I couldn’t deal with it. And I said, ‘This is not gonna work,’ and I screamed it 10 times. I said, ‘Get rid of them, I can’t work like this.’ And so they got rid of them. They bring on these two redheaded kids… I’m sure their parents loved them and thought they were attractive… It had nothing to do with [them being] redheaded, but they weren’t attractive.”

Filming continued without the Olsen twins for “only a few days,” after which Stamos said, “Bring the Olsens back! These kids are terrible. It was a day or something; we tried the other kids, it didn’t work,” Stamos added.

I hate to say it, but Stamos sounds like kind of a dick in this interview. I don’t know if he had ever met a baby before, but they don’t love being “hosed off” by men they don’t know while people laugh at them. I mean, who among us? They turned out to be great little actresses on the show, often stealing the scene with their cute smiles and funny lines. And it’s weird that he said those other babies weren’t “attractive.” But, I digress.

Full House served as a breakthrough for the Olsen twins, who went on to gain international fame by headlining various TV movies and direct-to-DVD films such as Passport to Paris and Our Lips Are Sealed. Stamos reprised his Full House role on Netflix’s sequel series Fuller House, which ran for five seasons and 75 episodes.

via: Variety