John Stamos travels to his ancestral home Greece! | Who Do You Think You Are? (US)

[@eliassays]

Everyone dreams of aging like this man.

[@giannoulakoutsioumpou9362]

Greeks from ARCADIA have succeded all over the world.PROUD TO BE GREEK EVEN PROUDER TO BE FROM ARCADIA.WE LOVE YOU JOHN STAMOS

[@jesterday2222]

Good for you! Greece and it's ancient history are beautiful and so are you! 💙🤍

[@sasakis]

As αρκαδομανιατισσα, I'll agree 😊

[@susanford2388]

I lived in Athens for 13 years, I had a blast. Crazy corruption but in the end you gotta laugh or you'll go mad. Happy Oxi day October 28, 1940

[@Γατάκι]

Ναι κάτι τέτοιους να τους χαίρεστε ! Στην λίστα του Diddy ο φίλος ! Που τώρα το θυμήθηκε πως είναι Έλληνας ! Ποιο Έλληνας είναι ο Αντέντοκουμπο παρά ο λεγάμενος Σταμος !

[@JoyMadrugada]

Papanikolaou from Evia sayz "hi" avoid so much localism friend ...

[@josephinemiller4780]

I love John Stamos! Can’t wait to hear the rest of his story!

[@lovingmayberry307]

He is so handsome!

[@portuguesehydrangea4818]

He is. And he knows it.

[@mariacristidou9324]

Είναι περισσοτερος συμπαθητικός παρα όμορφος...

[@christinanielsen1917]

His non Greek mother had a lot to do with his food looks.

[@EvaTheodoridou-48]

Dear John Stamos we love you and are glad you are looking for your roots. Welcome 🇬🇷 🙏

[@katerinaargyropoulou8818]

No speak no read Greek why?

[@HK-pp9ig]

@@katerinaargyropoulou8818 LOL... have you seen the Greek letters? It is very difficult for Greek ex-pats to learn to speak Greek, let alone learn how to write and read it. Even Italians have trouble learning their grandparents language wich is written in Latin alphabet, and similar to Spanish wich is like a second language in the USA. I know a Kakouri in our neighborhood. They don't speak Greek though.

[@jimstam5260]

As a fellow Stamatopoulos with parents from nearby Arcadian villages just to the west of Kakouri (Artemisio) there is nothing like visiting your ancestral villages (mine are Drakovouni & Nymfasia). Also Ancestry has been great at finding more relatives in North America.

[@sherrymaggio3343]

The whole Greece loves you very much of course Greek Americans too ❤️🇬🇷🇺🇸

[@noqueq9003]

The "whole" Greece really?

[@CristinaGreece]

​@@noqueq9003English is not everyone's first language just like myself judging is easy especially for those who only speak one language...

[@noqueq9003]

@@CristinaGreece Judging sure is easy and so is assuming. I wasn't referring to the person's grammar. I was referring to him saying that all of Greece loves him as if he represents Greece or knows who and how many Greeks love Stamos.

[@CristinaGreece]

@noqueq9003 Thank you for responding to my comment and making it clear helping me to understand your comment. I appreciate it!!

[@giannispets]

@@noqueq9003 Its a kind of saying/expression in greek

[@heraklitheraklit]

We love you my friend 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

[@theonemesis5217]

Good to know that our beloved countrymate Stamos, finally decide to search his ancestral roots! Always good to be back home!

[@dakotac180]

Hurry up and post all of it. We love uncle jesse

[@artemisia000]

My dad was from Kakouri (now known as Artemision) he told us that we are related 🙂

[@apostolia2124]

Αγαπημένος ηθοποιός !! one of my favorite actors, great job Katerina !!💙💙

[@AlexandraStamatopoulou]

Wow .. My grandfather Takis Stamatopoulos and my mother Katerina Stamatopoulou and my relatives borned in Kakouri ( Artemision ) . But many of them moved in Piraeus . So now we live in Pireus . Maybe we are relatives ?? wow..

[@giorgosstamatopoulos8115]

Eλα ρε ξαδερφεεεεεεεεεε !!!

[@xstaticprocess-b2h]

Greek beauty OMG this man

[@washcloud]

He's handsome alright, but does not look the slightest bit like the standard Greek stereotype though. At best he used to look - and kinda still does - like the amalgamation of Latin (Italian) and northern European (e.g. Scandinavian) origin.

[@alesita8080]

I need part 2😊

[@achillescolettas7042]

I've said the same every time I go to Greece. Why did we leave this place. Went back in 2024 after 18 years. It was one of the best trips ever. Long live Greece 🇬🇷

[@GreekboyyD]

Mainly because the people are horrible there for the most part and rude.

[@achillescolettas7042]

@GreekboyyD I had a great time. So meh.

[@GreekboyyD]

@achillescolettas7042 The islands are still great but Athens is a cesspool.

[@shieldwolfminiatures8645]

Am I the only one that's admiring the calligraphy on the documents?

[@christossp7054]

Welcome home John. You feel nice in Athens, because you are home. No matter where you go, no matter who you meet, you got Greek DNA on you and that goes until the end of your life. Here is your true home.

[@daisyd.9500]

🥱🥱🥱

[@Deira854]

I wonder why people left their home lands.

[@christossp7054]

@@Deira854 due to several types of war, either civil or world or minor asia

[@Deira854]

@@christossp7054 True, but why they never came back after war? I am originally from Pakistan had to leave the country in the 90s because of the Afghanistan war. But I always dream of going back. And you know the funny thing is, there are ruins of ancient Greek temple just outside my city, built during the days of Alexander the great! Greek empire had a lot of influence in Afghan/Pakistan region for 500 years

[@christossp7054]

@Deira854 Well, they dont come back because when you settle in an area for 10 years, you see your life prosper and you make familly, it's getting harder and harder to relocate into uncertainty. All reasonable people feel the same. The most important thing for the immigrats is to obey and respect the laws of the state in which they choose to live.

[@angiekereakes6551]

I see my family in you, John Stamos!

[@isakketsakidis6636]

Yianni it's a special moment to visit your relatives in Greece .👌🎉🎉

[@alexatrianta272]

We love you John Stamos 🌟

[@tinakarras7571]

My grandma's maiden name was Stamatopuoloa from Rizes Tegea. 10 minutes from Tripoli Peloponnese area.

[@nikos9257]

Κύριε Στάμο σας παρακολουθούμε χρόνια τώρα και σας αγαπάμε!

[@madjack8893]

Part 2 please!

[@ELEKTRARE]

Very attractive & good looking John 😊

[@JoyMadrugada]

Dont u ever forget your roots . Like every one from anz kind of heritage ... Dont u ever forget it

[@DarkIzzBack]

give us more this is really interesting!! Really great execution and a good story from mr. Stamos and crew

[@taniaramaki5142]

I remember when i first saw him as uncle jesser I tjought this handsome guy looks as a typical greek but atvyhevtime no oxy me tioned hisc Greek roots Anyway we liked him sll the zame Now that he decides to mention he is Greek we can be proud of him as fellow greeks

[@washcloud]

Even us Greeks in Greece were aware of his Greek heritage back in the late '80ies though. So I guess he did use to mention it. However,,,,"typical Greek"...?! Not in the least......

[@lindamassa4993]

My fave luv him and this series should come back on for sure

[@gerasimoseliasmessaris2499]

Absolutely gorgeous and beautiful person ❤

[@steliosioannou2800]

Ok, we need part 2😮

[@evanthea1]

John we are close in age. Our parents left Greece for a better life. My mother was 18 years old when she took the Trans Atlantic voyage to Halifax Canada and then on a train to Saskatchewan to meet up with my father. It was considered scandalous for a young unwed woman to travel across the Atlantic. Not a word of English. Her parents we’re against her leaving Greece unwed. But my mother trusted my father who was waiting for her. Both determined to make a life together in Canada. I am now planning to retire in Greece in the next year and a half to Nafplio. I’m going back to Nafplio to buy property in March. Once I get my Greek citizenship it’s good bye Canada!!! My father’s side of the family are rich in heritage. They are descendants of the famous Medici family of Florence and Toscany Italy. So much still to learn. Good for you for wanting to discover your roots.

[@funshine817]

Keanu, John and Ralph. All born roughly the same time. All look kinda alike. All are good, honest, kind, humble men...who never AGE! 😂🤣 Something about being born in the early 60's. 😎😁😉🤔 I was born in '63 and had huge crushes on all 3. ❤😍😁

[@georgiosioannispappas]

Rob Lowe too

[@funshine817]

@@georgiosioannispappas 👍

[@sanekabc]

Who is Ralph?

[@funshine817]

@@sanekabc Ralph Macchio from many movies/tv shows, most notably The Karate Kid. He is currently in the tv show Cobra Kai. 😊

[@sanekabc]

@@funshine817 Your "kinda alike" is a big stretch. :-)

[@ertaskwn]

Γεια σου ρε Σταμο πατριώτη!

[@dimitriosefstratiadis5117]

Why is he a patrioti, it took him years to search and can't speak a word of Greek. Typical Americanaki.

[@AnnaLizzyRose]

Keen to see more

[@cvazintaris]

Wow...super cool that his family is from Arcadia...my dad's side is from Kourouniou and then later moved down the mountain to Megalopolis. We still have our mountain house there. :)

[@MIGBMWLOVER]

To be honest I was hoping he could speak and read Greek...

[@lgempet2869]

Well….he’s American and born in the US w/Greek ancestry so it really doesn’t surprise me that he wouldn’t be able to read & speak Greek.

[@bwana-ma-coo-bah425]

@@lgempet2869 You would be surprised how many US born Americans with Greek heritage speak Greek.

[@ΓιώργοςΓλήνης]

It's never too late.

[@christinechones2219]

When my Grandparents came from Greece in early 1900s. Back then immigrants felt if you live in America, you speak American. Therefore my sisters and I learned very limited Greek. Immigrants back then looked at things differently.

[@bwana-ma-coo-bah425]

@@christinechones2219 It may be in the early 1900's the US did not have Greek language schools. Because I have met many US, Germans and Austrians who are in their 50's and all speak Greek too.

[@tulaa.4545]

Would love to see the TO BE CONTINUED part......

[@stone4534]

Hellas αγοριμου!!! Ελληνες ειμαστε!

[@likesomania7162]

nten imase katsvel

[@rena642]

You’d re sooo Greek looking my friend!

[@JohnSanJuan-zp1ed]

Uncle Jesse!

[@marinakio3471]

John Stamos came to Athens ❤

[@agelikigeorgiou9704]

Σας ευχαριστούμε

[@georgiamavroudi9648]

we need part 2 now!!

[@billyblioumis]

This is amazing content!

[@terristarnino4424]

You are So handsome 😊

[@makariosargyros7648]

Any one with a drop off Greek blood in them should be proud to be Greek anyone ❤

[@nikolaosaggelhdis787]

to many WARS TO MANY ORPHANAGES POOR HELLAS WHERE IS YOUR PEOPLE??

[@chrissamavs7124]

Scattered all over the world

[@sofiamoysidou]

​@@chrissamavs7124true...

[@ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣΡΗΓΟΣ]

Did you visit the village? Is it recorded, is there any video about?

[@sanandreasgta5350]

welcome home bro

[@philipgregorysougles1744]

I hadn't seen him since the 90s and seeing him now I thought it's an old video. How on earth does he age like this..

[@washcloud]

Come on, he's "only" 60.

[@nikoslykos6050]

Oh wow! Katerina goes to my church in America. Small world

[@iliashris4956]

Part #2 Please 🙏

[@AutonyB]

Very interesting background

[@Jindsing]

Say hi to Stavros for me! RIP Papui!

[@elinaanagnostakou2788]

Έλα ρε,Γιάννη.

[@DivineMetamorphoses]

Happy he was able to find ‘some’ documents. Ottoman era and then the subsequent wars destroyed many of the documents. They didn’t want Greeks to have anything to fall back on. My parents and their births were obscure and in some cases false and in multiples in some areas. My uncle was only 15 when he fought to save his village. They had rounded up all the male of all ages to execute them. My uncle saved them. Long story, point is, after World War Two they had more luck. Documents for my dad in Tripoli were non existent

[@PamelaJordan-cp3gs]

Cool

[@ositofreitas]

Didnt realize he is half Greek. Makes more sense now.

[@giorgostemponeras4109]

already orphan at 13years of age, must have shocked john to see this.

[@Iomar1975]

"...why did we leave here"? My thought exactly the 10 years I left Athens.

[@empathiaobscura979]

❤🇬🇷😢

[@AggelikiP-n9u]

OMG I know this woman….she grew up in Seattle

[@ΛεωνάνδροςΠεργαμενός]

We're is part II?

[@asianmovement]

Have mercy...

[@n17whlronnie92]

This is a show first started in England, Who do you think you are

[@evangeliavitogiannis2995]

Γιάννη μπράβο σου

[@johnzuras6378]

I am related to him. He is my second cousin once removed. I’ve never met him but have communicated over his Facebook page.

[@MrMimios]

If you spare just three hours a week from your time and devote it to learning Greek, you’ll become fluent in less than a year. Thus, there’s no excuse for admitting not knowing your ancestral language.

[@MariaKarakouka-ne2fs]

Giasou Gianni..Ti kanis..❤😅

[@semiramiskarnezos1519]

Ιs that the first time that you are going to Greece ?

[@dimitriosefstratiadis5117]

Nai, that's what I said, now he remembers.

[@Michelletanner409]

Is he going to find out that he’s really related to his look alike cousin Stavros?

[@VaGdude]

The Greek woman was SIMPing big time for him

[@PhantomPharmacist]

where is the rest of it??

[@bwana-ma-coo-bah425]

what country are you in? it depends on which country you are in.

[@vincestyles1030]

He still looks like uncle Jesse he doesn’t age. Not fair

[@washcloud]

I didn't know that John Stamos is the lost older brother of Robert Downey Junior.

[@AggelikiP-n9u]

I need to also look for some people of my past like my godfather

[@georgiosioannispappas]

Hi Rob Lowe!

[@daisyd.9500]

????????????

[@Greekphilosophyisawayofliving]

Important information, if his grand father helped to build a church, then in the church's book of Agia Graphi, his name will be written!!!!

[@menyjackets593]

hope the Stamos line stamatise ekei

[@Chris-hp2gg]

It's all Greek to me.😂

[@bwana-ma-coo-bah425]

I will tell you why Greeks left Greece. For many in the 50's who went to Australia, it was because Australia needed workers. The Greek government sold them to the Australian government and was supposed to give the money to the families they left behind. And in true Greek tradition, they did not pass on the money. The government kept it. For others who left. It was because there was no future in Greece. And for Greeks today still in Greece there is no future. The ones that left, made money, purchased houses and carved out a decent living. And now travel back and forth to Greece. However, Greeks don't consider them to be Greek. Even though they were born there.

[@sd5166]

Congratulations ,you got everything wrong.

[@bwana-ma-coo-bah425]

@@sd5166 Okay then. You tell me what happened. If indeed you know so much?

[@bwana-ma-coo-bah425]

@@S.Stamos Ποιο κομμάτι του σχολίου μου δεν κατάλαβες;

[@greeceundiscovered9670]

@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425Greeks in Greece don’t consider them to be Greek? This is wrong actually the opposite, they consider the diaspora to be more Greek than Greeks themselves. I hear this all the time.

[@Persiphon]

Ότι να ναι

[@evangeliavitogiannis2995]

We are cousins thru my aunt Dina Shmbonis

[@triandafilivavaroutsos4405]

YASOUJOHN FROM TO CAN

[@triandafilivavaroutsos4405]

ELLA

[@terrygal7008]

Surname is pronounced wrong.

[@terrygal7008]

Sta-:mos not Stay- mos

[@dogstar7]

The years 1904-16 was the time of the "Spanish Influenza" as well as post-war famines. Greece was abandoned by the Ottoman Empire and invaded/plundered piecemeal by Italian and Bulgarian princes in the interim

[@kourtourafi]

I'm really trying to understand what the heck you're talking about. Greece was never... abandoned by the Ottoman Empire (you make it sound as if it's a bad thing for Greece). The precise verbiage would be that Greece 'hacked' the Ottoman Empire in the 1st Balkan War (1912-1913), thus liberating Epirus and Macedonia, with the latter being coveted by Bulgaria, ally of Greece in the 1st Balkan War but enemy in the 2nd Balkan War (1913), which Greece also won, thus solidifying the annexation of Macedonia to the Independent State of Greece. Bulgaria had always dreamt of gaining access to the Aegean Sea, however their dreams remained dreams. Therefore, there was no Bulgarian invasion of Greece and there was no Italian invasion of Greece either from 1904 to 1916. I guess you refer to the Italian seizing of the Dodecanese but this happened when the islands were part of the Ottoman Empire.

[@eviangrace497]

Totally nonsense.. what the heck are you talking about?... abandoned by Turks?.. and invaded by Bulgarian and Italian princes..? Is your history knowledge THAT GOOD 😂😂😂.....?.....

[@NeNaGReece]

Ohhh sorry my answer wasn’t for you , but for the commenter above (dogstar) , I’ll delete it immediately, thanks! I had already given you my “like”, I am Greek how would I agree?

[@kourtourafi]

@@NeNaGReece No harm done. I'm erasing my comment, as well.

[@NeNaGReece]

@@dogstar7 Read history, all you have written is wrong! 😡

[@simplybrunette88]

I would like to say something here, but I better 🤐

[@dimitriosefstratiadis5117]

Me too....I did

[@Dimitris83]

Πρώτη φορά τον βλέπουμε.

[@daisyd.9500]

Πρέπει τότε να είσαι νήπιο Dimitris...😂😂😂

[@Dimitris83]

@@daisyd.9500 Όχι. Απλώς είμαι επιλεκτικός

[@daisyd.9500]

@@Dimitris83 Οκ

[@triandafilivavaroutsos4405]

- ONOMA E GENEKA SOU

[@nmgram8356]

Η μητέρα του είναι Αμερικανίδα. Ελληνοαμερικανος είναι.

[@jeanataylor]

Shame he can’t actually pronounce those names correctly or read.

[@antoniotoninno]

Than his grandfather still a hillbilly from the states, queen of England his second cousin and the list goes on

[@PieroM-c9s]

Imagine if Greeks started crying cultural appropriation like other groups who haven’t contributed one bit to modern society. 😂😂😂

[@passionatesingle]

Its unfortunate but after the second generation the language is lost especially if people inter-marry.

[@pablokoz7497]

I think we may be cousins but I’m still voting for Trump tomorrow 😂

[@dimitriosefstratiadis5117]

Why doesn't he speak Greek?And he asks why they left. Doesn't he know Greece is always starving? Now he remembers to search.

[@emmour9288]

He doesn’t know Greek🤔

[@dimitriosefstratiadis5117]

I know right

[@juliegeorgiou238]

How worthless

[@dimitriosefstratiadis5117]

Indeed

[@sky-pv7ff]

He may be half greek. But his child isn't greek. So you can't be proud of your heritage if you marry and have kids that aren't greek.

[@carokat1111]

Silly comment

[@sandy-ke1kr]

Why not? I think you can love your heritage and still marry someone from a different one.

[@sky-pv7ff]

@sandy-ke1kr i don't think John stamos celebrates his heritage.

[@kourtourafi]

Some half Greeks do far more honour to their country than some... Greeks Greeks. You belong in the 2nd category.

[@roaringviking5693]

You can. And you can say that you have a certain heritage. What do annoy me with Americans is when they say that they are English, Irish, Swedish, Greek or whatever. No, you are not. It's like saying that I'm a butcher just because my grandfather was a butcher, even though I've never butchered anything in my life.