Bob Saget Found Dead in Orlando Hotel Room (UPDATE: Police Say No Sign of Foul Play or Drug Use)

Sarah RumpfJan 9th, 2022, 7:54 pm
 
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Actor and comedian Bob Saget has died at the age of 65.

According to TMZ, the beloved Full House star passed away Sunday at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Orlando, according to “multiple sources,” with hotel security finding Saget in his room and calling 911. Saget was “was pronounced dead on the scene, but the circumstances of his death are still unclear.”

Saget was in Orlando as part of a nationwide standup tour that had started in September. He performed in the Central Florida city on Friday, went to Ponte Vedra Beach (about 20 miles east of Jacksonville) for a performance Saturday, and then returned to Orlando, according to Fox 35 Orlando.

His last tweet was at 3:42 am ET Sunday morning, commenting about how much he had “loved” the night’s show, and was “happily addicted again to this shit.”

Fox 35 Orlando confirmed that Orange County deputies were at the Ritz-Carlton Sunday evening.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office (OSCO) confirmed that they had responded to an emergency call about an unresponsive man, had identified him as Saget, and pronounced him deceased on scene.

“Detectives found no signs of foul play or drug use in this case,” the tweet concluded.

In a longer statement to TMZ, the OSCO said the following:

On arrival, (deputies) located a man who was unresponsive in a hotel room. The man, identified as Robert Lane Saget, (DOB: 5/17/1956), was pronounced deceased on scene. We have no information on cause of death, and detectives have found no signs of foul play or drug use in this case. This is all the information we have for release at this time and we do not anticipate further updates.

The Orange County Medical Examiner’s Office will make a determination regarding the cause and manner of death, according to OSCO.

Saget was born in Philadelphia on May 17, 1956 and attended film school at Temple University. He was cherished by generations of Americans for his roles as Danny Tanner in Full House (and its Netflix sequel, Fuller House), as the host of America’s Funniest Home Videos from 1989 to 1997, and as the future Ted Mosby who narrated the series How I Met Your Mother.

He was well known for his wild and raunchy stand-up comedy, enjoying skewering the squeaky-clean image from Full House and AFHV, and played characters that “embrace[d] his mischievous side” in the film Half Baked and in the HBO series Entourage.

This is a breaking story and has been updated.

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