John Stamos Reveals Bizarre Text Exchange With Lori Loughlin When College Admission Scandal Broke

In his new memoir “If You Would’ve Told Me,” John Stamos revealed a series of bizarre text messages and conversations he had with actress Lori Loughlin when the college admission scandal broke in 2019.

In the 60-year-old actor’s new book — out on Tuesday — the “Full House” star detailed the strange chats he had with his former co-star right before she was named in the “Varsity Blues” college admission scandal along with her husband Mossimo Giannulli, the New York Post reported. In May of 2020, Loughlin and her husband plead guilty to a variety of conspiracy charges after paying $500,000 to get their two daughters, Isabella Rose and Olivia Jade, into the University of Southern California as phony rowing recruits.

“In March 2019, I get a strange text around 5:30 am from my good friend Roger Lodge,” Stamos wrote. “He asks if Lori is okay. I hit him back, ‘Why, what’s up?’ ”

“Something about a college scandal,” he wrote back.

“I started Googling, but there was very little I could find,” he added. “I knew she was working in Canada, so I called to check on her.”

He said Loughlin answered the phone pretty nonchalantly and he recalled her being unfazed about the phone possibly being bugged.

John Stamos called Lori Loughlin and told her to turn on the news when the college admissions scandal broke: “She asks, ‘What channel?’ I text back in all caps: ’EVERY CHANNEL!’”

She did warn him, “Oh, they may be bugging my phone.” https://t.co/6XLwMNQOh5 pic.twitter.com/GYWNBnbhzp

— Variety (@Variety) October 24, 2023

Stamos recalled asking Loughlin about a series of clicks he heard while they were talking on the phone, and her response was shockingly low-key: “‘Oh that, yeah, I’m not sure.’ She answers so casually as if I just asked her if [fictional twins on ‘Full House]’ Nicky and Alex finished all their vegetables.”

“‘I have seen some emails lately from lawyers to Moss, but I stay out of it.’ Before I can process her response, I notice an odd clicking sound on the phone line,” he added. “When I asked her about it, she again adopts her laissez-faire tone, ‘Oh, they may be bugging my phone.'”

After they got off the phone, the “Fuller House” star saw that the college admission scandal was making headlines and immediately texted her back. In the book, he then shared how that text thread went.

“I immediately text Lori, ‘Are you watching the news?'” the actor wrote. “An FBI agent is announcing the largest college admissions scandal ever handled by the Department of Justice, involving bribes to prestigious colleges for falsified student acceptances. She asks, ‘What channel?’ I text back in all caps: ‘EVERY CHANNEL!'”

After the actress plead guilty, the “Every Christmas Has A Story” star served two months in prison, while her husband got five-months behind bars. Loughlin was released in December 2020, while Giannulli remained behind bars. Giannulli was then released early on April 2, 2021 and served the remainder of his sentence at home.

Related: Lori Loughlin Sentenced To Two Months In Prison For College Admissions Scandal

Mira Sorvino Says Motherhood Changed Her Life ‘Forever, For The Better’

Superstar Mira Sorvino talked about the year she first got to experience motherhood and said that becoming a mom in 2004 changed her life for “the better forever.”

The 56-year-old actress spoke to Entertainment Tonight ahead of her performance — which she’ll share with Mattea Backus, her 18-year-old daughter with actor Christopher Backus — on “Dancing With The Stars.” Mattea will pay tribute to her mom by dancing to Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time.” The song/dance comes from one of Sorvino’s most famous movie scenes in the 1997 cult classic “Romy And Michele’s High School Reunion.”

“I am so excited because, this week, I get to live out another dream which is to dance with my daughter,” Sorvino, gushed, who also shares three other kids with Backus, Lucia and sons Johnny and Holden.

Mira Sorvino — and Her Daughter! — Will Recreate Romy and Michele’s Iconic ‘Time After Time’ Routine on ‘DWTS’ https://t.co/YNlPLTjmXx

— People (@people) October 24, 2023

“[Her dancing partner] Gleb [Savchenko] choreographed this incredible dance to ‘Time After Time’ about the love between parents and a daughter and, you know, her going away and coming back but love always returns and we always end up together in the end,” she added. “And it’s really beautiful.”

The “Mimic” star said for “DWTS” Most Memorable Year Night she picked 2004 because “it’s the year I got married [Backus] and that’s the year we had our first child, Mattea, and my life changed forever, for the better.”

“My heart just grew 10 times and I just love my children, my family, so much,” she added. “And to have my daughter here today, it’s just mind-blowing!”

Sorvino and Backus keep their relationship pretty quiet — and after almost two decades and four children, they are still going strong.

In 2009, Mira spoke to People magazine about what her dream would be for her young family going forward.

“That we grow and learn from and love each other more with every day,” the actress said at the time. “Because of my husband and my children, I feel like the luckiest woman in the world, and I just want to cherish every minute we have together.”

The pair secretly wed in a Santa Barbara courthouse in June 2004. In November of that year, the couple welcomed their first child together, daughter Mattea. They celebrated the arrival of their son, Johnny, two years later, followed by son Holden in 2009 and daughter, Lucia in 2012.

Related: ‘Just Felt..In My Bones’: Emily Blunt On Taking A Break From Acting For Her Kids

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