Kelly Rizzo Accepts Critics Impact Award in Late Husband Bob Saget's Honor
13.06.2022 - 20:57
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Kelly Rizzo honored her late husband, Bob Saget, on a special night! On Sunday, the travel blogger attended the Fourth Annual Critics Choice Real TV Awards and accepted the Impact Award, which was posthumously awarded to the comedian and presented to his wife by his friend,John Stamos. Rizzo took the stage in a rare appearance and praised her husband’s work during a tearful speech. «It's so wonderful to see how incredibly loved he still is by everybody, and I know that Bob would be so honored and so thrilled and so grateful to receive this award right now,» the 43-year-old said of her late husband.
«I mean, he would be blown away. All he wanted to do was make people happy. He just wanted to make people laugh, and make people smile,» she added. Rizzo shared that it’s “surreal” to accept awards on his behalf, and promised that she and his three daughters will continue to honor him and his lasting legacy.
“Bob's incredible daughters and I are so honored to be able to accept this on Bob's behalf. And this is very bittersweet, because this is just still… It's so surreal,” she said. «You watch that, and you look at him, and you're like, 'Bob was larger than life.' He was so full of life.
He was a force of nature. And you watch that, and you're like, 'How is he not the one that's on the stage right now?' It still doesn't make sense. It still doesn't really compute,» she shared. Saget died on Jan. 9 at the age of 65. The actor, who hosted the awards ceremony in 2018, was honored for his unscripted work and the positive impact he made with which he hosted from 1989 to 1997. Ahead of Rizzo taking the stage, Stamos, Saget’s co-star and longtime friend, gave a touching introduction.«Bob Saget was the biggest self-critic I ever
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