Ariana Grande Loses Grandpa, Tweets Sweet Things About Him
Ariana Grande and her family suffered a tremendous loss this week with her grandfather's passing. But while the Grande family patriarch is gone, Ariana has been making sure that he won't be forgotten with a series of sweet tweets, letting fans know how great of a man he was.
thaaaanks to my best friends who stayed up with me all night talking and helped me pull myself together temporarily this am. flyin back home
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) July 23, 2014Despite this sad news, Ariana's brother Frankie, who is a current contestant on Big Brother, is not expected to be pulled off the show -- this according to one of their grandfather's last wishes.
"Asked grandps last week if he wanted us to pull Frankie off bb & he said, 'No way! He's gotta play the game even though I don't understand it,'" Ariana tweeted on Wednesday.
asked grandps last week if he wanted us to pull frankie off bb & he said "no way! he's gotta play the game even tho i don't understand it"??
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) July 23, 2014Ariana, 21, drops her sophomore album, My Everything, on August 25.