Kelly Rizzo, Wife of Bob Saget, Created a Podcast About Coping With Grief — While Eating Comfort Food (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital Editor Kelly Rizzo, TV personality and entrepreneur who is the wife of the late Bob Saget, is launching “Comfort Food,” a new weekly podcast in which she hosts intimate conversations with guests about life, love and loss — while tucking into emotionally comforting food.
In January 2022, Saget died at a Florida hotel at the age of 65. The comedian, known for his starring role on “Full House,” had just kicked off a new comedy tour.
Rizzo, who married Saget in 2018, said the inspiration for the podcast came from her experience in the devastating days after his death. “I just remember being acutely aware of, ‘Wow, what this person did for me really made my day better,'” she told Variety. “I had never gone through the loss of a close loved one before.
I started thinking, ‘How have I been helpful to people over the years?'” The first two episodes of “Comfort Food” premiere Sunday, Nov.
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