We all know that Full House‘s Joey Gladstone wasn’t actually a blood uncle to the Tanner girls. But did you think that they called him uncle?
Apparently, they didn’t – not according to star Jodie Sweetin, who revealed the misconception on her new rewatch podcast with Andrea Barber, How Rude, Tanneritos! Keep reading to find out more… While chatting with Andrea, Jodie set the record straight about Joey, who lived with the Tanners in their home, to help Danny raise the girls following the untimely passing of their mother when they were young. “He’s not an uncle.
I’m gonna debate this fact, because people always say, ‘Oh, what about Uncle Joey?’ And I’m the first to [say], ‘Like, actually, he’s not an uncle.’ And we never called him ‘Uncle Joey,’” she shared.
While yes, Joey does hold that honorary uncle status to them, they never actually called him uncle…not until their children in the spinoff Fuller House did. “The younger kids, I think, started calling him ‘Uncle Joey’ [on Fuller House].
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