In what can greatest be described as a second of Hollywood détente, John Stamos and Jerry O’Connell had been all smiles as they appeared in a photograph shared this weekend.
The selfie, which O’Connell posted to Instagram Saturday, reveals him posing together with his spouse Rebecca Romijn’s ex-husband at comic Howie Mandel’s seventieth birthday celebration in Van Nuys, California. Showing between the 2 males within the picture was Stamos’ present spouse, Caitlin McHugh.
In his caption, O’Connell in contrast himself and Stamos to President Donald Trump and New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who final week shared a perplexingly chummy assembly on the White Home.
“Gorgeous fam and gorgeous people,” he wrote, earlier than wishing Mandel a contented birthday.
Mandel, in the meantime, playfully took credit score for the reconciliation within the feedback, writing: “This is what I do. I bring people together. You’re welcome.”
Stamos and Romijn break up in 2005 after seven years of marriage. Romijn went on to wed O’Connell in 2007, whereas Stamos and McHugh have been married since 2018.
O’Connell’s tense relationship with Stamos may be traced again to 2023, when Stamos candidly opened up about his earlier marriage in a memoir, “If You Would Have Told Me.”
In an interview with Individuals across the time of his memoir’s publication, Stamos mentioned he’d as soon as considered Romijn as “the Devil,” noting: “I couldn’t believe how much I hated her, and it ruined my life.”
When talking to Howard Stern that very same month, the “Full House” actor additionally recalled having felt “emasculated” by Romijn throughout their relationship given her rising star on the time.
That very same yr, O’Connell appeared on CBS’s “The Talk,” and mentioned he’d made a acutely aware resolution to maintain his opinion of Stamos’ feedback below wraps.
“My wife’s ex-husband recently wrote a biography, and it referred to my wife in a negative manner,” the “Jerry Maguire” actor mentioned. “And a lot of people have asked me about that in press, and it would be easy for me to say: ‘Screw you, how dare you ask me that?’ But really, it will be bringing attention to a situation that I don’t want to feed into.”
Although Stamos’ feedback on Romijn made headlines, he additionally advised Stern he’d begun to reevaluate his position within the demise of his first marriage whereas in restoration from alcohol dependancy.
“If I didn’t go through what I did with Rebecca, I wouldn’t have been with Caitlin,” he mentioned. “I wouldn’t know how to be.”
