Candace Cameron Bure Honored the Late Bob Saget by Starring in ‘The Masked Singer’

• Candace Cameron Bure shared on the Whine Down with Jana Kramer podcast that she lastly agreed to look in The Masked Singer — after being requested 4 instances — as a method to honor her late Full Home costar Bob Saget
• Bure recalled that the primary episode of the Fox singing competitors present that she ever watched featured Saget because the Squiggly Monster
• The actress additionally detailed her expertise performing as Cherry Blossom and the way it felt to put on her elaborate costume and masks

Candace Cameron Bure is revealing the emotional motive why she lastly agreed to star in The Masked Singer.

Throughout an look on the March 26 episode of the Whine Down with Jana Kramer podcast — following her unmasking as Cherry Blossom in season 13 of the superstar singing competitors collection that very same day — Bure shared that she was requested to do the present 4 instances earlier than she stated “sure.”

“I am so scared of singing in entrance of individuals,” she defined to host Jana Kramer, who was joined by her husband Allan Russell. “However I lastly was like, ‘You already know what? I am simply gonna do it. I will recover from the worry.’ ”

Bure stated she additionally had the thought that collaborating in The Masked Singer could be an ideal alternative to pay tribute to her late pal and Full Home costar Bob Saget, who died in 2022 on the age of 65.

“After I actually began excited about it, Bob was such a particular a part of the present, and he was within the first episode that I ever watched, not realizing it was him,” she stated, remembering the second: “I am sitting on my sofa and I am like, ‘What is that this loopy present?’ ”

She then recalled her excited response to realizing it was Saget behind the Squiggly Monster masks within the 2020 episode of the Fox present.

” ‘That is Bob!’ I used to be, like, leaping on my sofa like Tom Cruise with Kate Holmes. I used to be like, ‘That is Bob! That is wonderful!’ And I kinda simply beloved it from then on out as a result of he was the introduction for me to the present.”

Shortly after his unmasking in 2020, Saget joked to Leisure Weekly how he needed to hold his cool and stay tight-lipped when Bure instantly requested him if he was the Squiggly Monster earlier than his on-show unveiling had occurred.

“I’ve a video of … Candace and he or she goes, ‘Oh my God. That is you on The Masked Singer, is not it?’ ” he recalled. “It is a video she despatched me of her screaming, ‘That is you! I do know you! I understand how you dance. I understand how you sing. That is you! Oh my god, I can not imagine you are on The Masked Singer. Oh my God!’ ”

“And I wrote again, ‘No, and I do not know what you are speaking about, Candace. Love you,’ ” Saget continued, explaining, “We signed a authorized doc.”

On the time, Bure received some flak from followers after spoiling Saget’s id because the Squiggly Monster on social media.

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In a clip on her Instagram Tales, she stated she knew her Full Home costar was the Squiggly Monster “the second he sang the second notes” of The Rolling Stones hit “(I Cannot Get No) Satisfaction,” per Good Housekeeping. “Actually, two notes, the second phrase, I used to be like, ‘I do know that voice. I do know that voice,’ ” Bure defined within the clip.

Through the podcast dialog, Bure additionally opened up about her expertise of starring in The Masked Singer — together with donning one of many present’s over-the-top costumes. As Cherry Blossom, the actress wore a frilly pink gown and an elaborate masks adorned with cherry blossom blooms and branches.

“It is so weird to have such a large costume on, and I even had, like, an amazing costume, and it wasn’t practically as massive as among the different ones,” she advised Kramer and Russell. “I beloved my costume. It was superior.”

However as for her character’s masks and heels, she wasn’t fairly as eager.

“It is simply unsettling in that you simply’re strolling in big platform footwear, and you have this massive head on, and you’ll’t actually see. And it makes the entire course of that a lot scarier,” Bure defined.