On October 23, the Student Academy Award winner announced he filmed his final subject – Tom Waits – for the Martin Mull documentary he was directing, but it’s unclear if he got to finish the final cut.īob’s final acting role was portraying Lawrence in Jeremy LaLonde’s Cayman Islands-set inheritance comedy Killing Daniel formerly known as Blue Iguana, which wrapped production on April 2.
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Grieving: The America’s Funniest Home Videos alum is also survived by his widow – Eat Travel Rock TV host Kelly Rizzo (L, pictured December 24) – with whom he was married for three years
RIP: Bob (pictured Sunday) was discovered dead in his suite at The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes – but no cause of death has been announced (foul play and drug use were ruled out)Ģ005 family portrait: Saget is survived by his three daughters (from L-R) – Lara, 32 Jennifer, 29 and Aubrey, 34 – from his 15-year marriage to Sherri Kramer, which ended in 1997 Saget is also survived by his widow – Eat Travel Rock TV host Kelly Rizzo – with whom he was married for three years. The Here for You podcaster was discovered dead in his suite at The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes – but no cause of death has been announced (foul play and drug use were ruled out).īob is survived by his three daughters – Lara, 32 Jennifer, 29 and Aubrey, 34 – from his 15-year marriage to Sherri Kramer, which ended in 1997. Up until the end: The Here for You podcaster served as a board member for the Scleroderma Research Foundation, which he helped raise over $26M for through Cool Comedy Hot Cuisine benefit shows
And I’m out there doing it and I know it’s healing for people’ All rights reserved.Saget said: ‘When she was still coherent, I could still try to tell her stories and then put some humor in it. It just happened naturally in our conversations…It is so healthy to laugh. ™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. “Bob was a relentless champion for scleroderma patients and the mission of the SRF-finding a cure for scleroderma.
“In loving memory of Bob Saget, a cherished colleague, friend, and Scleroderma Research Foundation Board member for over 20 years,” the caption to a photo of Saget posted on the SFR Instagram account read. The “America’s Funniest Videos” host went on to serve on the SRF board for nearly two decades and hosted their events for more than 25 years.įollowing the announcement of his death, fellow comic Amy Schumer posted on her verified Instagram account that she would be donating to SRF in Saget’s honor and the organization posted a tribute to their most famous advocate. “She had to move to Los Angeles to live with my parents because she needed so much help,” Saget said. Drugs including prednisone and cortisone were used to treat her, he said, but it only addressed her symptoms. Saget shared that his sister was 44 and a Philadelphia-area teacher when she was first diagnosed. “Little did I know that just a few years later, my sister would be diagnosed with the disease.” “I said yes and hosted the event, which starred Ellen DeGeneres, Rosie O’Donnell, and others.” he said.
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Saget told NIH Medline Plus Magazine in 2019 that years before he “got a call from someone I did not know asking me to host a comedy fundraiser for a disease I knew very little about.” The star actually first became involved with the Scleroderma Research Foundation (SRF) prior to his sister’s diagnosis with the chronic disease, which can lead to a hardening and tightening of connective tissue and skin. But it was the death of his beloved sister Gay following a battle with the autoimmune disease scleroderma which transformed him into an avid advocate for raising money to find a cure.