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John Stamos is busy promoting upcoming memoir If You Would Have Told Me, which is out on October 24. (Good luck competing with Britney, John!) Last week, we talked about how John wrote that he “hated” his ex-wife, Rebecca Romijn, after their divorce. It was a whole lotta “Yikes.” But Romijn isn’t the only former partner that John writes about in the book. He also alleges that while dating Teri Copley back in the 80s, he caught the actress in bed with none other than Tony Danza. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting to be talking about Tony Danza gossip in 2023 (or ever), but here we are!
[John Stamos] is opening up about the demise of his relationship with actress Teri Copley in his upcoming memoir “If You Would Have Told Me.” Stamos alleges the “We Got It Made” star cheated on him with actor Tony Danza.
Despite his head-over-heels courtship with Copley, Stamos writes that the actress began to give him the cold shoulder after he returned from touring with car show appearances and performing with the cover band Papa Doo Run Run. Concerned about Copley’s lack of communication, Stamos headed over to his then-girlfriend’s house to check on her. Upon arriving at Copley’s home, Stamos noticed a car parked in the driveway.
“I shuffle to the car with my stomach sinking and take a quick look inside. There’s a hairbrush, keys, boxing gloves and a half-unrolled poster of my girlfriend, naked, barely covered by a white sheet,” Stamos writes. “I’ve never seen this poster before.”
After being unable to open the front or side doors to Copley’s house, Stamos went to the “Brain Donors” actress’s guesthouse, where he found “four feet protruding from the shabby-chic, floral print duvet that once kept me warm.” Stamos wasn’t able to recognize the man Copley was in bed with, referring to him as “Mr. Porsche Speedster” for the vintage convertible parked in Copley’s driveway.
“My heart is beating out of my chest,” Stamos writes. “My mind is racing, and the room is spinning. I feel like throwing up all over her white shag carpet. It’s my worst nightmare.”
Just before leaving Copley’s home, Stamos grabbed the poster of Copley that was inside the Porsche for a closer look. The poster was signed by Copley with the message, “My Dear Tony, I’ll love you forever.”
While driving home and listening to the Elton John song “Tiny Dancer,” Stamos says he realized the identity of Copley’s lover. “I mouth the words to his most famous lyrics and realize the name of my rival, ‘Hold me closer, Tony Danza.’”
Reportedly, Stamos also goes on about Danza’s “ripped abs” intimidating him from physically confronting the pair, which really makes me want to make a joke about Danza being Stamos’ boss, but I can’t quite get there. For her part, Copley has denied that she was cheating on John when he walked in on her and Tony, explaining that they were already broken up when it happened! She told People, “I wondered, ‘What was John doing there?’ because we had broken up. He just looked at me and shook his head, and walked away.” Given the context clues within John’s own words, that Teri had been giving him the cold shoulder and he was “concerned” about her lack of communication, I believe Copley’s account. I bet Stamos went there either not believing they were actually broken up or thinking he could win her back. Either way, it’s kinda messed up to tell a story like that about someone, especially if he didn’t give her a head’s up and get her permission first. I’m glad Teri went on the record with her side of the story.
Also, who hasn’t sang, “Hold me closer, Tony Danza,” at least once while listening to “Tiny Dancer?” Both my husband and my little sister genuinely thought that was the lyric when they were kids, so I’ve always jokingly sang it. My sister also thought Aretha sang, “When my son was in the lost and found” when she first heard “You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman,” and at five-years-old, very worriedly asked my mom, “Why was her son in the lost-and-found? Did she find him?” Anyway, I would be lying if I didn’t snort-laugh to myself when I realized “Hold me closer, Tony Danza” were probably the exact words Teri was saying as John ran away crying. Oh, there it is. There’s the boss joke.
This is too funny.
@bisynaptic I agree and this is gossip I can appreciate because it’s not remotely depressing.
John is painting a very interesting picture of himself here lol. It’s giving man-baby, if Teri is to be believed. That combined with his hate fuel of Rebecca….He was the hot guy women were running away from. So many red flags
Unintentionally identifying himself as the main problem all the time, every time…. lol
But hey yeah thats how he sees the world- obliviously.
LOL right, He comes across as a loser, honestly.
Lol great take.
It is NOT a man baby response to be justifiably shaken and traumatized by your partner being unfaithful – and catching them in the act. It is trauma and one of the worst things a person can do to hurt someone.
Sounds like their breakup wasn’t particularly clearly communicated
It’s not his response to being cheated on, I’m not mocking him for that.
I AM mocking him because, that’s not what I think happened. And knowing man babies like I do, she probably did try to communicate to him where they stood and he just barreled over her right into his own misery.
@Naye in VA I agree that he’s a manchild but not because of this particular incident. Rebecca and the fact he waited till he was able to join AARP to get married and have a family does though.
Maybe they could have had a threesome.
That is mean.
I meant they are both so hot, how would a girl choose.
Lay me down in sheets of linen 🔥
“My heart is beating out of my chest,” Stamos writes. “My mind is racing, and the room is spinning. I feel like throwing up all over her white shag carpet. It’s my worst nightmare.”
Enter overly dramatic male fragility.
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” ~ Margaret Atwood
She definitely had a type! Tony Danza and John Stamos actually looked so similar way back when.
He had to mention the signed naked poster? And the details of this are just ick. That’s two ex’s he’s described in a negative nasty way after a break up. This is a guy I would stay far away from.
Does he say why he hates Rebecca?
I haven’t read the book, but it was excerpted in an article about him hating Rebecca. In those excerpts the story was that he felt abandoned / betrayed because she ended the marriage and the dominant narrative in the press was that she left him because she was more successful than he was at the time. And he suggests that maybe that was the reason. Which to me sounds like some regressive nonsense (if a man is out-earned he must be losing respect, etc.).
So he broke into a stranger’s car, tried to break into his ex-girlfriend’s house, succeeded in breaking into her guest house, and then went back and stole something from the stranger’s car. And in the People link, HE describes HER as being broken.
Scary stalker energy.
My thoughts exactly.
Also? I thought about this a little longer, and this story happened in 1985. In 1985, if you come back from a long trip and someone isn’t answering their phone, the appropriate assumption isn’t that they’re in some kind of danger. I mean, it’s not even now, but then the assumption was that they weren’t answering their phone because they weren’t home.
And I notice he doesn’t have a key to her place, either.
That is exactly what caught my attention about this story. Makes Stamos sound like a scary ex.
Fun fact: Teri Copley used to be married to Micki Free. If you’re familiar with Charlie Murphy’s infamous Prince story about basketball, blouses, and pancakes, Micki is in that story.
“Prince”‘s noises after Charlie says “shirts vs blouses” nearly makes me pee every time.
All the comments here are so spot on. John wants us all to know that he really doesn’t like women.
Rebecca’s well shot of this jerk. He sounds like a self-obsessed, sniveling little brat who secretly hates women.
The only thing that comes to mind to be on John Stamos’s “side” here is the way he describes it, it almost sounds like Teri ghosted him at the time hoping the lack of communication would be a clue to him they were over. Or she told him point blank it was over but in his typical male fashion he thought she wasn’t serious and went over to “check” on her. If she had been alone and he had managed to break into her house, what would have happened? Given his comments about his ex-wife Rebecca, I am glad Tony Danza was over there, who knows how that could have escalated.
In the year of our lord and saviour Beyoncé 2023, this is the kind of gossip I am looking for! I used to have the biggest crush on Tony Danza!
If I was his wife, I would seriously rethink my relationship based on all the shit he’s been saying about his exes. Also, remember what he admitted to in Jane Magazine back in the day.
I think he just can’t take rejection and now he is trying to let his venom out. He doesn’t come across as having healed. Pretty class less to say these depth of details without permission from the other person. I do think she dumped him and he was not getting the message. Like when Rebecca was just living her life and he took it as a hit to his ego when she left. She left because she was sick of him being jealous of her career. It’s ok to break up, divorce and end things with dignity.
@wellyaknow I’m curious do you feel this way about Britney saying all the things she is about Justin because people seem to be supporting that. How is this different? Mind you I think John Stamos is completely toxic but it’s also his story to tell so I don’t get why it’s ok for a woman to kiss and tell but not a man?
Well Britney didn’t lie though and they were exclusive while Stamos might be from his record and what Teri said they were broken up. Justin is saying that didn’t happen as Britney said it happened and I don’t think Justin was wrong to voice he wasn’t ready for fatherhood but he was wrong from dragging her with lies to make his own career happen. They were young so they both had hard choices. Stamos not so much. Still a funny story thought. Oh Tony.
Isn’t anyone alarmed that he admits that he tried to open the front and side doors of her place? In the excerpt that i read, he claimed that after that that the door was slightly open. Um if you are doing it with Tony Danza, would you really leave your door open (not unlocked but OPEN??)?
Also its not like they were married or living together and she was giving him the cold shoulder so why are his expectations so high? Sounds like he thinks far too highly of himself that he can’t fathom a women not wanting him over all other guys.
John Stamos giving the opposite of BDE. (Tony Danza, not incidentally, totally gives chill/happy/secure-with-himself vibes.) Saw another article on this situation in which commenters expressed shock that a woman would choose “ugly” Tony over “pretty” John. I’ve never been one for pretty men myself — but to me it’s so obvious why a woman might be curious about Tony in bed. He’s just got a joyful confident energy that, in my experience, usually leads to enjoyable sex 🙂
I wish there was a “Like” or “Love” button for so many of these comments!