Ariana Grande’s big brother is about to get a taste of his own medicine on CBS’ Big Brother! Frankie Grande is one of 16 contestants vying for $500,000 on the upcoming season of the hit summertime show.
After the cast list was announced this morning, Ariana revealed she has actually been the one running his Twitter account for the past few days.
since Frankie's clearly "away"…. it's been ari trying to tweet like Frankie… wasn't convincing at all idk how to tweet like Frankie lol
— Frankie James Grande (@FrankieJGrande) June 19, 2014
so Frankie's on the new season of big brother & I couldn't possibly be prouder. let's help the worlds best big brother win 'big brother' k?
— Frankie James Grande (@FrankieJGrande) June 19, 2014
She also tweeted her support from her own account.
congrats to my big brother on being cast in season 16 of big brother…… so proud of u / I'm a nervous wreck #bb16 you're gonna kill it
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) June 19, 2014
Besides being Ariana’s older half-brother, 28-year-old Frankie is actually quite well-known for his YouTube videos: He has nearly 200,000 subscribers for the channel and more than 540,000 Twitter followers.
Here’s one of his videos… Which serves the purpose of explaining more about him. (Fun takeaway: He studied insects in college.)
In a cast interview video for Big Brother 16, Frankie revealed he applied for CBS’ Survivor three years ago, but nothing came of it. He later decided that Big Brother would be a better fit for him… And producers apparently agreed.
“I have a lot of personality,” Frankie said about what viewers can expect. “I’m going to be careful about it in the house, because I don’t want to put a gigantic target on my back… I will not be careful about it in the diary room, so you’ll be getting all of this crazy Frankie Grande up in that YouTube room… The diary room is going to be like my little YouTube booth.”
Big Brother premieres on CBS on June 25 at 8/7c.
