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John Stamos says his “Full House” costar and on-screen wife Lori Loughlin could have been “the one that got away.”

Uncle Jesse and Aunt Becky? Quick, someone start playing “Forever”!

Stamos, 49, who now plays head of a sports and entertainment conglomerate in USA’s “Necessary Roughness,” admitted that he always had a thing for his costar, 48, but the “timing was always off,” he told HuffPost Live.

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When he wasn’t talking about losing his virginity, appearing in a gay publication with “Mad Men’s” Jon Hamm, his Greek pride or how he’d revamp the Huffington Post’s homepage, Stamos did talk about the sitcom, which aired from 1987 to 1995 and jump-started his career, and his relationship with his costar.

“We were friends, we were on the soaps together and we actually did date. We went on a date to Disneyland before, you know, before we were both married. In real life, when we were 18, 19 years old,” he added. “We did have some off timing, but no disrespect to her family and her husband now, I would say that she could be the one that got away.”

For the uninitiated, Stamos’ Elvis- and hair-obsessed rocker Uncle Jesse courted and married Loughlin’s character on the show. The couple moved into the home of his single brother-in-law Danny Tanner (Bob Saget), who also happened to be Becky’s TV co-anchor. Jesse had already been living with Danny and his comedian friend Joey (Dave Coulier) to help take care of Danny’s three daughters after his wife passed away. When they got married on the show, Jesse and Becky took up residence in Danny’s refurbished attic and had twin boys, who then lived there too. A “Full House,” indeed.

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“Jesse and Becky: Have Mercy” ... ? Now that’s a never-made spinoff show we would have loved to watch.

After continuing to grow very close on set and after, the actor did say that Loughlin is one of

Sure, chemistry can be faked, but when it comes to some of our favorite TV couples, it's tough not to imagine that, unlike their characters, the actors behind them might not actually be in love. Take Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton, whose perfect marriage on Friday Night Lights had fans convinced that the actors were destined to be together in real life, as well. Or The Office's Jim and Pam, John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer, who I still can't believe aren't actually dating, despite both of them being married with kids. While some TV pairs do take their romance off-screen (Summer and Seth forever <3), plenty of others are forced to spend far too much time convincing people that they aren't, were never, and will never be a real-life couple. Just ask John Stamos and Lori Loughlin, who've spent the last 20years telling Full House fans that they're not an item. But have all their protestations had any effect? Judging by the amount of times Loughlin, at least, still gets asked about her love life, the answer is probably not.

Although both Full House actors get asked numerous times about why they've never dated in real life, it's Loughlin who suffers the brunt of it, probably because most Stamos fans don't actually mind the fact that he's still single. In nearly every interview Loughlin does, questions inevitably arise about her relationship with her former TV husband, most of them of the "but seriously, why were you never together?" variety.

It's gotta be tough for Loughlin to have to answer the same question all the time, but probably not as difficult as it is for us to hear, again and again, that Uncle Jesse and Aunt Becky's love will forever (see what we did there?) be confined to the small screen. For once, Loughlin, just humor us once and say that you and Stamos were once secretly a couple. Is that too much to ask?

A timeline of Stamos and Loughlin's off-screen "romance:"

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American actor and musician (born 1963)

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John Phillip Stamos (STAY-mohss; born August 19, 1963) is an American actor and musician. He first gained recognition for his contract role as Blackie Parrish on the ABC television soap operaGeneral Hospital, for which he was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series at the 10th Daytime Emmy Awards in 1983. He is known for his work in television, especially in his starring role as Jesse Katsopolis on the ABC sitcom Full House. Since the show's finale in 1995, Stamos has appeared in numerous TV films and series.

From 2005 to 2009, Stamos had a starring role on the NBC medical drama ER as Dr. Tony Gates. After former Broadway stints in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Cabaret, Stamos began playing the role of Albert Peterson in the Broadway revival of Bye Bye Birdie, which he starred in from October 2009 to January 2010. He then played Senator Joseph Cantwell in a Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's play The Best Man from July to September 2012, replacing Eric McCormack.

From September 2015 to 2016, Stamos starred as the lead character in the Fox sitcom Grandfathered. He executive produced the Netflix series Fuller House, in which he reprised the role of Jesse Katsopolis. He also starred in Never Too Young to Die (1986), Born to Ride (1991), and as Dr. Nicky in the Lifetime/Netflix psychological thriller You.

Early life

John Stamos was born on August 19, 1963, in Cypress, California, to