Jason Sudeikis recently paid tribute to his uncle, “Cheers” star George Wendt, who died last month.
The four-time “Ted Lasso” Emmy winner honored his late relative’s memory during an appearance Friday at the Big Slick Celebrity Weekend fundraiser for Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri.
“He’s as fun and kind and as warm as any character he played on television or in films,” Sudeikis said, according to Deadline. “I mean, there’s that old saying of like, ‘Don’t meet your heroes,’ usually because ‘they let you down,’ I assume, is the back half of that statement. But he’s not one of those people.”
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