‘Full House’ Star Andrea Barber Recalls “Gross” Question About Family Sitcom

A number of Full House viewers likely had crushes on John Stamos, who played Uncle Jesse on the ABC sitcom, but his young co-stars didn’t see him that way.

Speaking on the How Rude, Tanneritos! podcast alongside co-star Jodie Sweetin, Andrea Barber, who played next door neighbor and D.J. Tanner’s (Candace Cameron Bure) best friend Kimmy Gibbler, recalled being asked in interviews if she “ever” had “a crush” on Stamos, calling it “a gross question.”

“No,” she added, going on to say of Stamos and fellow co-star Dave Coulier, who played family friend Joey Gladstone, who also helped raise the Tanner girls alongside widowed dad Danny (Bob Saget), “they’re like our older brothers, and we do not think of them that way.”

Sweetin agreed, adding, “Not even older brothers. They’re like my uncles.”

The moment came up during a game of “Would You Rather” on a recent minisode of Barber and Sweetin’s rewatch podcast, as they look back at the two-parter where Jesse and Becky (Lori Loughlin) get married. During the wedding-themed quiz, the co-hosts were asked if they’d rather marry Joey or Jesse, but they found the question to be “weird.”

“They’re like family, and it’s weird,” Sweetin said.

The pair did, however, pick Joey, with Sweetin saying the choice was based on “temperament alone.”

“There’s nothing remotely attractive about this,” Barber added later. “They are just our buddies and, yeah, this is kind of a weird question.”

After Full House ended in 1995, Sweetin, Barber, Bure and more of the Full House cast reprised their roles in the Netflix reboot Fuller House, which ran from 2016-2020.