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Bob Saget 'Approves' of Olsen Twins' Boyfriends

Bob Saget 'Approves' of Olsen Twins' Boyfriends

Originally posted 11/12/2008 02:35PM

TV father knows best – at least when it comes to approving boyfriends.

As Full House's Danny Tanner, Bob Saget, along with the rest of America, watched Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen grow up in the shared role of his youngest daughter, Michelle Tanner.

These days the wildly successful 22-year-old twins make headlines for their fashion sense and their boyfriend choices. Mary-Kate has been dating N.Y.C. artist Nate Lowman, 29, for 10 months, while Ashley has been seeing National Treasure actor Justin Bartha, 30, for 5 months.

"I approve of anyone that makes my friends happy, and they're my friends," Saget, 52, told PEOPLE at "Cool Comedy, Hot Cuisine," a benefit for the Scleroderma Research Fund at Caroline's in New York on Tuesday. "I am protective of the people I love."

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Originally posted 03/30/2004 2:58PM

March 31, 2004MELLOW MARIAH? Mariah Carey plays a disgruntled diva in Damon Dash's upcoming movie State Property II – but the sexy songbird was no prima donna on the set, says the hip-hop mogul. "She's very professional," he tells Daily Insider. "Didn't complain. It's not the biggest movie. She didn't have the biggest trailer. It was cold. She just weathered the elements. She was a real trouper." Carey landed the cameo role just a few weeks ago after calling her pal Dash when she got home from her recent world tour. "I was telling her I was shooting a movie and she said, 'Where's my part?' " says Dash, who is directing and acting in the film, which he calls "an urban Snatch." Two days later they met to go over the storyboards. "She said, 'Just make sure I look good.' " Apparently he did: When she showed up to the Yonkers, N.Y., set three days later, he says, "she had the whole set in a tizzy."

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