Bob Sagetis extending his unwavering love to costarLori Loughlinin the wake of thecollege admissions scandal.
Speaking withPEOPLE Nowon Monday, Saget, 62, remained mum on Loughlin’s alleged involvement in the high-profile scandal, but said that he loves hisFull HouseandFuller Housecastmate “very much.”
“It’s personal and that’s where I’m keeping it and there’s 30 years of love there. More than that. So that’s all I got,” said Saget, who starred alongside Loughlin, 54, onFull Housefrom 1988-95.
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He also joked that he’s staying in touch with Loughlin via “carrier pigeon.”
“I love her very much,” he said of Loughlin. “And that’s it. That would be my — that’s more than a no comment!”
On March 12, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts announced it had charged 50 people, including Loughlin, in the cheating scandal. The actress, along with coaches, admissions counselors and parents were accused of such alleged crimes as falsifying SAT scores and lying about the athletic skills of their children.
Loughlinallegedly wanted her daughters— Olivia Jade, 19, and Isabella Rose, 20 — to get into the University of Southern California so badly that she and husbandMossimo Giannullipaid approximately $500,000 in bribes to falsely designate their daughters as recruits to the USC crew team — despite the fact that they did not participate in crew.
From left: Olivia Jade Giannulli, Lori Loughlin and Isabella Rose Giannulli.Gabriel Olsen/Getty
The complaint alleged the couple devised a plan to “present their younger daughter, falsely, as a crew coxswain for the L.A. Marina Club team, and requested that the Giannullis’s send an ‘Action Picture,’ asking a few days later for a picture on the ‘erg’ — or rowing machine, which Giannulli did a few days later.”
Earlier this month, both Loughlin and Giannulli, 55,pleaded not guiltyto the charges they face: mail fraud and money laundering conspiracy. If convicted, they face up to 20 years in prison for each charge.
According to a source, the couple is worried that the prosecution could charge one or both of the girls in an attempt to get them to plead guilty.
“They feel that they’re in the middle of a squeeze play right now,” said the source. “It’s very complex, legally. On one hand, they have pleaded not guilty to the offenses they are alleged to have committed. But on the other hand, they know that pleading guilty could put the matter behind the whole family.”
“They are under an enormous amount of pressure, and the idea that the girls could be prosecuted is distressing, as you can imagine,” the source continued. “That just makes the pressure worse.”
source: people.com
