John Stamos and his wife, Caitlin McHugh, don’t take themselves too seriously.
The couple married in 2018, and McHugh told Fox News Digital that they keep their relationship strong by spending time together, but she also gave a tricky answer.
“I guess it’s been a long time in Hollywood. Not in real life, but we spend a lot of time together,” McHugh, who stars in the new movie “The Invisible Raptor,” told Fox News Digital when asked about their secret to success marriage. She joked: “There’s a lot of good communication and stuff. But really, I wonder if it’s just that he’s already passed everyone else. I was last.”
Over the years, “Full House” The star dated several high-profile women before becoming a family man, including Paula Abdul, Denise Richards, Teri Copley and Denise Richards, and he married Rebecca Romijn.
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John Stamos and wife Caitlin McHugh don’t take themselves too seriously. (John Nacion/Variety via Getty Images)
Stamos, 61, and Romijn were married from 1998 to 2004.
He and McHugh, 38, married in 2018 and welcomed their first child, Billy, the same year.
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“[Billy] is a hambone and a half, I like to say, just like his dad – he hasn’t fallen far from the tree at all,” she said, explaining that Billy is in dance class and had his first recital last summer.
“He just likes to make other kids laugh. He’s got all these girls who are in love with him and stuff. I mean, he can’t help it. That’s the way he is. But unlike us, he’s also more athletic. He’s on the basketball team , and he likes to be into sports, and we don’t get it at all, but we support whatever he chooses to be into. Luckily, for better or worse, fun is definitely a part of him.”
McHugh said that since he was 4, parenting the 6-year-old was “wonderful. Two and three were like crazy.”
“There’s a lot of good communication and stuff. But really, I wonder if it’s just because he’s already passed everyone else. I was last.”
“It was just watching suicides and murders all the time with my toddler,” she joked. “I just didn’t know what was going to happen. And I felt constantly overwhelmed. But now he’s like a little guy. He’s like my little friend and my best friend. Now, you know, I could take a seat and hang out.”
John Stamos and wife Caitlin McHugh share BIlly, 6. (Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix)
She said the two can now have “deep conversations,” noting that the 6-year-old will still “like to come and fart in my face or whatever, but he’s funny.”
And while she said he’s clearly a combination of her husband and her, he has “a real personality of his own. And I love seeing him come into his own… He falls close to the trees, very much a mix of my husband and me, but he’s also his own person and [has] his own life experiences. And meeting him is the greatest thing.”
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For the holidays, McHugh joked that her family was getting an “F” for sneaking away at Christmas in Paris.
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“I will say that normally we are hosts, and we do a lot here. We host everything – usually all things. But this year I would like to go somewhere else,” she explained.
She said after seeing ads for Christmas markets on social media, “now I want to go to Europe for Christmas and thank God we’re doing it.”
McHugh revealed she has “come out of retirement” for her role in the horror-comedy The Invisible Raptor, which spoofs “Jurassic Park” movies.
John Stamos and wife Caitlin McHugh at the premiere of “The Invisible Raptor”. (Paul Archuleta/Getty Images)
“I just want everyone, I mean everyone, in the audience to lose weight just laughing,” she said of the film, which comes out this month. “Just the amount of calories they’ll burn. Don’t worry about the amount of candy and popcorn you’ll eat during the movie. You’ll spend all those calories laughing. You probably won’t learn anything. You know, don’t expect a big science thing or a big social problem to be solved in this movie. It’s a really good time for some good laughs and a nice little escape from reality in Spielberg County.”
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McHugh joked that she had been preparing for this role since she was a child, reading all of Michael Crichton’s books.
“It started in fifth grade. I read all Michael Crichton, ‘Jurassic Park,’ you know, all his books. Those thick, thick books in fifth grade. I didn’t know what I was in for, but as it turned out it was ‘Invisible raptor’.”
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She said that the director, she and everyone else involved are obsessed with Jurassic movies.
“And so it really comes from loving all those movies,” she revealed. “And I really feel like that comes across in the film. It’s really a love letter to Spielberg.”
She joked that she didn’t have to re-watch the “Jurassic” films to do research for the film, “but I did. Not all of them, but I did some of them. I mean, ‘Jurassic Park’ is so classic, and it’s so good and it was completely honest and true I read all those books I was a fun nerd.
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She said she met the filmmakers at Comic-Con.
“I’m just a geek, really. And so, preparing for this movie, I think I was lucky because they actually kind of wrote it for me,” she added. “When they wrote it, they said they thought I was playing. So it was just me.”
McHugh said she has no immediate plans to act after “The Invisible Raptor.”
“I came out of retirement to do this movie,” she said, adding that she only did it because the filmmakers were good friends, then “I came back out of retirement. But I said, I say this with a little caveat, if any ‘Invisible Raptor 2,’ I’m going to go for it.”
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McHugh, whose previous acting credits include “Law & Order: SVU,” “The Vampire Diaries” and “Save Me,” said she spends most of her time working on her nonprofit, podcast and bracelet company. “And I’m a mom. And I feel so fulfilled by those things. And I think that one actor or one and a half little actors in our house is enough. I don’t know if I should keep doing it. The world has enough actors.”
