{"id":2037757,"date":"2025-09-20T21:02:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2037757"},"modified":"2025-09-20T21:02:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:02:27","slug":"tom-bergeron-looks-back-on-friendship-with-the-late-john-ritter-i-just-loved-the-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tom-bergeron-looks-back-on-friendship-with-the-late-john-ritter-i-just-loved-the-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Bergeron Looks Back on Friendship With the Late John Ritter: \u2018I Just Loved the Guy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tom Bergeron<\/a> honored his late pal John Ritter<\/a> by narrating a reading of a Three\u2019s Company<\/a> episode in Hollywood last week that benefited the John Ritter Foundation, which raises awareness and funds research for thoracic aortic dissection and aneurysm. Ritter<\/a> passed away in 2003 from aortic dissection. His widow, Amy Yasbeck<\/a> (Wings), has championed the foundation for years, saving lives in the process. Ritter\u2019s comic genius is legendary, and Bergeron is the king of dry-witted comebacks, as evidenced by his years of hosting on Dancing With the Stars<\/a> and America\u2019s Funniest Home Videos<\/a>. \u201cJohn and I got to know each other when we were doing Hollywood Squares,\u201d Bergeron tells TV…<\/div>\n

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Tom Bergeron honored his late pal John Ritter by narrating a reading of a Three\u2019s Company episode in Hollywood last week that benefited the John Ritter Foundation, which raises awareness and funds research for thoracic aortic dissection and aneurysm. Ritter passed away in 2003 from aortic dissection. His widow, Amy Yasbeck (Wings), has championed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2037758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2037757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Tom-Bergeron-Looks-Back-on-Friendship-With-the-Late-John.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2037757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2037758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}