Bob Saget and Kelly Rizzo.Photo: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic
Bob Saget’s widow,Kelly Rizzo, ishonoring her late husbandon what would have been his 67th birthday.
The blogger, 43, shared a carousel of photos on Wednesday, showing theFull Housealum enjoying his favorite pastimes including smoking cigars, relaxing at the beach and indulging in a seafood tower.
“Happy birthday 🎂🩶 This truly never gets less weird or surreal,” she captioned theInstagram post. “But the gratitude grows every single day. I’ll never stop feeling like the luckiest person on Earth to have had the privilege of spending 6 years with this amazing man.”
She reminded her followers that “life is short and we never know how long we are going to be here.”
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“And I hope he’s celebrating up there with a massive cigar (his favorite thing), a martini, and a few dozen oysters while sitting on a beach. He would love that,” she wrote, before ending the post with a special message for Saget’s loved ones. “Thank you all for still loving Bob so much. 🎂🎂🎂🎂❤️❤️❤️❤️”
Bob Saget and Kelly Rizzo in December 2021.Leon Bennett/Getty Images
Rizzo and Saget’s celebrity friends showed their support in the comment section.John Mayerwrote, “I love you!!!! You’re such a brilliant steward of his heart and soul. ❤️” The musician alsoshared his own post, writing, “I guess what I’m saying is… thank God for our ability to remember those who have left us. It’s one of the rare divine traits of being human; we can reflect and revisit and keep the flame of someone’s impact on our lives burning bright. Thank God we don’t ever have to let go. Thank God for our memories. Happy Birthday Bob, I love you. ♥️”
Saget was found dead at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Orlando, Florida, on Jan. 9, 2022. One month later, his family confirmed that hedied due to head trauma. He was 65.
In an Instagram Q&A in February, Rizzo revealed she reunited Saget’sFull Housecostars tomark the one-year anniversaryof the comedian’s death.
“Love them dearly… this is when we got together last month for the 1 year anniversary,” Rizzo wrote alongside a photo of herself withCandace Cameron Bure,Lori Loughlin,John Stamosand his wife Caitlyn.
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“It’s such a strange thing because the home situation, you know there’s so many things about Bob that he is still so present in my life,” she said on a March 2023 episode ofTamron Hallafterselling the home she and Saget shared.
“If you go into my new house, there’s pictures of him everywhere. It’s like just shy of a Bob museum. But you know, he’s still everywhere. I look at videos of him all the time. I see photos of him all the time,” she added.
source: people.com
