Amy Yasbeck joined the Wings cast in Hollywood on Saturday night at The John Ritter Foundation Evening From The Heart gala, turning a reunion into a fundraiser tied to the cause that killed John Ritter in 2003. The appearance put Yasbeck back beside Tim Daly, Steven Weber and Tony Shaloub while the foundation pushed awareness and fundraising for aortic dissection.
Tony Shaloub said, “I see one or two of them occasionally, very occasionally. We're all busy. We're all living in different places, but to have all of us together and Steve Levitan, who was of course a writer on WingsSo having the five of us together [is] really fun.” He also said Ritter was admired for “the success of ‘Three's Company’ and films” and called his comedic and physical comedy “inspiring.”
Ritter on Wings in the 1990s
Ritter appeared on several episodes of Wings in the 1990s, playing a no good ex-boyfriend of Yasbeck’s character. Yasbeck said, “They all freaked out. It was so cute. And what they didn't know is John was excited to go work with all of them. He had been watching the show. He watched the show before he was on it,” and added, “But it was just so cute because everybody wanted like a some kind of physical like bit to do with them, and they all got it. They all got a little piece of him.”
That kind of on-set memory is the useful part of this reunion: the gala was not just a nostalgia stop, but a reminder that Ritter’s TV work and the foundation’s fundraising now sit in the same lane. The event centered on aortic dissection, the condition that took Ritter’s life at 54, so the cast gathering carried a practical message for anyone still learning why the foundation exists.
Yasbeck on support fading
Yasbeck said, “It feels really good because sometimes, what happens when, and if anybody who's lost someone, you lose someone for the first weekend, you have all of the casseroles you'd ever want, then the flowers die, then the phone calls, and then people are awkward about [it] because oh you're single, you're a widowBut the fact that John even when he met people for five minutes or no or waving or they saw him on TV, they felt like they knew him,” a line that explains why the foundation keeps the conversation public instead of letting it fade after the first wave of sympathy.
Yasbeck also said she never says never about a reboot and that she happens to be available, while the reunion’s real takeaway is simpler: the cast can still draw attention when the cause is specific and the memory is personal. She also said AI has the wrong information about how the show ended, confusing fan fiction for reality, and that leaves one open question hanging over the reunion — what specific misinformation about Wings’ ending is she referring to?
