Claim to Fame’s Shane Brando Explains His Chicken Wing Necklace

Declare to Fame season 3 contestant Shane Brando is aware of he confused some folks along with his hen wing necklace.

Warning: This text accommodates spoilers for season 3 of Declare to Fame.

Shane wore a realistic-looking hen wing on a series round his neck all through the competitors, however it had nothing to do along with his secret celeb relative, his grandfather Marlon Brando.

“I wore it on the present simply as a joke,” Shane solely informed Us Weekly after his elimination in the course of the Wednesday, August 28, episode of the ABC actuality collection. “I want I used to be sensible sufficient to say, ‘Oh, yeah, that is gonna be a pretend clue that persons are gonna be so confused about.’ For me, it was just a bit a part of my character, my humorousness, and it simply stored me grounded. It was a continuing reminder daily [not to] take this sport too significantly.”

Shane famous that he’s had the bizarre accent for about six years, and it’s a wardrobe “staple” when he goes to musical festivals and concert events.

“It’s only a enjoyable little dialog starter,” he stated.

Even with out his hen wing bling, Shane was well-liked within the Declare to Fame home, and his wine bottle clue was the final to be pulled. Nonetheless, as soon as Shane’s clue was in Mackenzie’s possession, she and Hud rapidly labored out that Shane is said to Marlon, who died at age 80 in 2004. Mackenzie focused Shane in the course of the guess-off, and he was eradicated.

After Shane’s celeb relative was revealed, there have been inevitably a number of Godfather references made by his castmates and Declare to Fame cohosts Kevin and Frankie Jonas. Though Shane has heard loads of “horrible” impressions of his grandfather through the years, he informed Us it doesn’t hassle him in any respect.

“I believe it’s very humorous. … It’s like, ‘Let me see each rendition of the worst Marlon Brando impression.’ And I adore it,” he joked. “There’s just a few folks on this world that I even have heard do a extremely good Marlon impression.”

Shane stated that actor Ed Begley Jr. does “in all probability the perfect rendition” of his grandfather as a result of “they had been actually shut mates.”

“Johnny Depp does a extremely good one as properly. … And whoever performed my grandpa on the present The Supply did an incredible job,” he continued, referring to Gray’s Anatomy alum Justin Chambers.

Shane’s grandfather had a connection to his castmate Dedrick’s secret celeb relative, unbeknownst to him. Dedrick, whose actual identify is Siggy Jackson, is Michael Jackson’s nephew. Marlon and Michael, who died at age 50 in 2009, had been mates for years, and Shane’s dad, Miko Brando, labored for Michael.

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“Proper when the present completed [taping], we in all probability spent two hours simply taking pictures the s–t, like, ‘Have we run into one another? How might now we have probably missed this?” Shane stated of the second he and Dedrick realized their connection. “We actually had no concept, and simply all through the taking pictures of the present, me telling tales all day about being [at Michael’s property] Neverland [Ranch], and him sitting there like, ‘Oh, that’s nice. That’s a cool story, man.’ … After I truly discovered who he was associated to, I sort of felt so silly for a short while.”

As for his personal celeb relative, Shane stated that Marlon was “humorous” and keen on taking part in pranks.

“He was an enormous sensible jokester. You by no means knew if there was gonna be a whoopee cushion beneath your seat once you’re sitting down or he would pop up and scare you,” he recalled earlier than sharing a reminiscence of Marlon that he recounted on the actor’s funeral.

“There was a time we had been swimming in his pool and there was a bee that simply landed on the sting of the pool. … My grandpa goes as much as the bee [and] sort of brushes it onto his hand. Then, he’s like, ‘Shane, watch this,’ very calmly,” Shane stated. “[He] sticks his tongue out, locations the bee onto his tongue, after which sticks his tongue in his mouth [and] closes his mouth. A short while later, [he] opens his mouth [and] sticks his tongue out … after which he simply lets out a bit breath and the bee flies away.”

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