Yahoo Lifestyle Kat Dennings Recalls Working With ‘Very Protective’ TV Dad Bob Saget
Three years after Bob Saget’s death, Kat Dennings said she has only “very, very nice memories” of the actor who once played her dad on television.
During a recent interview with People that was published on Sunday, Jan. 19, the 2 Broke Girls star said the time she spent working with Saget more than 20 years ago was “lovely” and that she is “so sad that he's gone.”
Now 38, Dennings remembered Saget as being “very protective of me because I was a young actress and he had daughters.” Saget and his ex-wife, Sherri Kramer, had three daughters together—Aubrey, 37, Lara, 35, and Jennifer, 32—before they divorced in 1997 after 15 years of marriage. He married again in 2018 to media personality Kelly Rizzo.
Saget “was very sweet to me and very protective and very kind,” Dennings told the magazine.
The Shifting Gears actress and Saget were both cast more than two decades ago in the family TV sitcom Raising Dad, which aired for one season from the fall of 2001 to the spring of 2002 on The WB. Saget played Matt Stewart, a widower with two daughters, with Dennings playing his oldest daughter, Sarah. Brie Larson played Emily, Dennings’ onscreen sister.
The Full House alum died unexpectedly at age 65 on Jan. 9, 2022, while at a hotel in Orlando, Fla. One month later, the local medical examiner announced that Saget had died of blunt head trauma as a result of injuries that “were most likely incurred from an unwitnessed fall.” His death was ruled an accident.
Rizzo, 45, remembered her late husband earlier this month with a touching tribute that she posted on Instagram on the third anniversary of his death.
“Not a day goes by that I’m not filled with appreciation for the time we shared and the brilliance, love, joy, and comfort Bob brought to my life,” her tribute said in part. "It is truly miraculous how the Bob love has not diminished. He still holds such a huge space in people’s hearts. His legacy is still so strong and I’m constantly asked to share more Bob memories.”
Next: Get an Exclusive First Look at Tim Allen's New 'Shifting Gears' Comedy
