Jodie Sweetin Makes a Bold Declaration About 'Full House' Characters' Sexual Orientations
When it comes to fan theories about popular shows, sometimes they're way off the mark—but other times they're right on target.
On the Wednesday, Oct. 1 episode of their Full House rewatch podcast How Rude, Tanneritos!, Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber responded to one listener's question about which of the show's characters they thought were queer, and the stars didn't hesitate to weigh in with their opinions.
“Steph, for sure,” said Sweetin of her character.
“Steph is definitely—she is somewhere to the right on the Kinsey scale,” Sweetin, an outspoken LGBTQ+ ally, continued.
As for Barber, she also felt that her character, Kimmy Gibbler, wasn't entirely straight.
“Kimmy does not fit into any boxes. Like, she doesn't want labels or boxes," Barber said.
Sweetin suggested that Kimmy might be pansexual.
“Kimmy loves the person, doesn't care about the package,” the actress explained.
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Barber and Sweetin agreed that out actor Blake McIver Ewing, who played Michelle Tanner’s classmate Derek in Full House, would say that his character most likely grew up to be queer.
“I don't know about anybody else in the main cast, though,” Sweetin said.
“We didn't talk about that in the ’80s, right?” Barber pointed out. “Three men living in a home together in San Francisco—you'd think it would come up. But it didn’t.”
Sweetin also brought up the fact that her character talks about having a girlfriend in an episode from Season 4 of Fuller House—a line that was apparently ad-libbed, according to a 2018 tweet from Candace Cameron Bure explaining her shocked reaction in the scene.
Barber, meanwhile, mentioned Kimmy’s assistant Casey in Fuller House, the show's first openly queer character, played by transgender actress Miss Benny.
According to People, in a July 2023 TikTok, Miss Benny accused Bure of trying to have her character removed from the show. Bure denied the allegations.
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