Hollywood star John Stamos has been stealing hearts since his days on General Hospital , in which he starred from 1982 to 1992, and as Uncle Jesse on Full House (1987-1995). But as the actor revelled in stardom, he was privately struggling with alcohol addiction, trauma from childhood sexual abuse, and his first marriage to Rebecca Romijn, which he described as “shattering” in his 2023 memoir, If You Would Have Told Me . {"@context":"https://schema.
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com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/2024/08/05/306a1fb9-f883-48d3-866f-36305954f0b2_d7491f3d.jpg"} John Stamos was already a working actor by the time Caitlin McHugh was born in 1986. Photo: @caitlinskybound/Instagram Well, it seems the 60-year-old finally found his “happy ever after” with his current wife, actress Caitlin McHugh – even though it took a while for the two to get together.
Here’s everything we know about McHugh, who is 23 years Stamos’ junior and the woman he credits for keeping him on the straight and narrow. What does Caitlin McHugh do for work? {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Caitlin McHugh has worked on movies like I am Legend (2007) which also stars Will Smith, and TV series like The Vampire Diaries (2009-2017).
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jpg"} Caitlin McHugh has worked on movies like I am Legend (2007) which also stars Will Smith, and TV series like The Vampire Diaries (2009-2017). Photo: @caitlinskybound/Instagram McHugh, 38, made her acting debut in the 2007 action sci-fi movie I am Legend alongside Will Smith. She has since made appearances in several network TV productions including The Vampire Diaries and Switched at Birth.
Aside from acting, McHugh also has her podcast How Can I Help, in which she connects with individuals and non-profit organisations that are working to better the world, and tries to find ways to help them. How did John Stamos and Caitlin McHugh meet? {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"It took a while for Caitlin McHugh and John Stamos to get together.
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jpg"} It took a while for Caitlin McHugh and John Stamos to get together. Photo: @caitlinskybound/Instagram According to US Weekly, the pair met when McHugh and Stamos both guest starred in a 2011 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit . In his memoir, Stamos wrote that he wanted to “ask her on a date, talk about the future, and convince her to run away with me” – but McHugh was engaged at the time.
In 2016, Stamos and McHugh worked together again on the short film Ingenue-ish (2017), at which point she was no longer engaged, and Stamos finally had the chance to pursue a romantic relationship with her. What about the proposal? {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"John Stamos proposed to Caitlin McHugh at Disneyland.
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jpg"} John Stamos proposed to Caitlin McHugh at Disneyland. Photo: @johnstamos/Instagram On October 23, 2017, Stamos announced their engagement with a cute illustration of the pair at Disneyland, which he posted on Instagram captioned: “I asked ..
. she said yes! ..
. And we lived happily ever after.” According to People, the actor proposed at Disneyland after the duo watched “a short film of romantic moments from animated Pixar and Disney films” that Stamos had made.
What has John Stamos said about his wife, Caitlin McHugh? {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Caitlin McHugh gave birth to their son Billy in 2018. Photo: @caitlinskybound/Instagram","url":"https://img.
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Photo: @caitlinskybound/Instagram Speaking to People in October 2017, Stamos said that he’d been “waiting for the perfect girl for over a decade and she walked into my life”. However, he also shared that he needed time before he was suitable for marriage again: “I wasn’t the best me. I was ready, but no one as perfect as Caitlin – a true, pure beautiful person inside – would’ve never gone for the old me, a few years ago.
” But he never gave up hope. “I knew the right person would come along ..
. And I know my parents are up there watching, so I think they delivered an angel to me,” he said. The pair officially tied the knot in 2018 and welcomed their son Billy just two months later.
Stamos has openly discussed his struggles with alcohol abuse in the past, and how he was finally motivated to clean up his act after a DUI arrest in 2015. He also credits McHugh and his desire to “make it work” with her and their family for keeping him on the path of sobriety, per People. How big is the age gap between John Stamos and Caitlin McHugh? {"@context":"https://schema.
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com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/2024/08/05/899eb6cc-fa40-44ea-ba59-1bca90bc11fc_82161f74.jpg"} “We had so much fun raising money for Billy’s school!” John Stamos credits Caitlin McHugh for his involvement in charities nowadays. Photo: @caitlinskybound/Instagram Despite the 23-year age gap between McHugh and Stamos, the two seem to be smitten with each other and have found a good balance in their relationship.
“Being older with someone younger, you go, all right, you know everything and they need to listen to me. But I’m always learning something from her,” Stamos shared with People earlier this year, and credits her for his broadening view on politics and involvement in charity work. The Full House alum met his current wife on the set of Law & Order: SVU, and while he had a crush on her immediately, McHugh was engaged at the time Stamos proposed to McHugh at Disneyland and the pair got married in 2018 just a couple of months before the birth of their son – Stamos previously shared a ‘shattering’ marriage with Rebecca Romijn.
