D.J. Tanner’s — and Candace Cameron Bure’s — first kiss tells all!
On the most recent episode of their rewatch podcast How Rude, Tanneritos!, Full House alumni Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber welcomed former child actor Scott Curtis, who appeared in two episodes of the beloved sitcom’s third season as D.J.’s first boyfriend, Kevin Gwin.
One of those episodes, 1990’s “13 Candles,” found the tween lovebirds locking lips for the first time at D.J.’s 13th birthday party. As Barber noted on the podcast, that wasn’t just the character’s first kiss — it was Bure’s as well.
“Was this your first kiss in real life?” Barber asked Curtis.
“I may have had one kiss before,” he said. “But we’ll say it was. It was close enough to be.”
“I was, you know, excited to get the audition, and they had said that I was gonna be Candace’s first kiss,” Curtis recalled of getting the role after appearing in several episodes of Growing Pains alongside Bure’s real-life brother Kirk Cameron. “So, when I came in and did the table read with you guys first thing, like, I took this seriously. You know, I knew that this was — that this was a big moment.”
“It was pretty great between Candace and I right off the bat,” he continued. “There was an exciting week leading up to the infamous kiss.”
Curtis said that he and Bure “broke the ice” by spraying Binaca breath freshener into each other’s mouths. “And, you know, of course, the rest of the week, you could feel the build-up happening,” he said. “The night that we filmed it, we actually had to get it with audience and then without audience, because [showrunner] Jeff Franklin wanted one take of the audience going, ‘Wooooooh.’ ”
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Curtis went on to appear as Kevin in one other episode, by which point he said he and Bure had become good friends. “We were talking on the phone and giggling and laughing and having fun,” he recalled. “And I remember the last thing that she and I said to each other was, ‘We’ll see you at the wrap party.’ ”
“So, you know, we all get tuxed-up and we get limoed over, and I walked in and I saw her and I choked,” he said. “I literally froze, and I could not go over there and even say hi to her, which I — I haven’t choked like that ever, before or since. So, I have no idea what hit me, but I just went, ‘Oh my God!’ ”
“That was kind of Kevin Gwin’s character, you know, being kinda shy,” he continued. “And so for some reason, I guess I just absolutely morphed into that.”
“Which is so funny because you’d already kissed her at that point on the show,” Barber noted.
“It totally should not have been, you know, a big deal. But, for whatever reason, I just went, ‘Oh, boy,’ ” Curtis said. “I haven’t said hi to her since.”
Curtis said that in recent years, he’s read and seen interviews in which Bure expressed embarrassment at having her first kiss happen on TV. In fact, during a Full House reunion panel at 90s Con in Daytona Beach, Florida, last month, Bure prompted Sweetin and Barber to talk about how awkward their first kisses were on the show.
“Not in a bad way,” she clarified, “but as a 13-year-old…”
“Yeah, would you like your first kiss to be seen by 200 strangers and your mom and dad?” Barber responded at the time. “No! That was mortifying!”
On Tanneritos, Barber and Sweetin reassured Curtis that Bure definitely remembers him fondly.
“The embarrassment comes from just that milestone [happening] so publicly,” Barber said.
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