‘Big Brother’ Alum Zach Rance Calls Out Fan Sending Death Threats Over Showmance With Frankie Grande 10 Years Later

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Zach Rance, who appeared on Big Brother Season 16, is calling out fans for sending death threats to him and his family over “showmance” with Ariana Grande’s brother, Frankie Grande.

In a video shared on social media, Rance pleaded with fans of the CBS reality competition to stop the toxicity. “This is me asking for help to all the people that follow me, to all the Big Brother fans, to anybody that’s ever watched a season of Big Brother,” Rance said in a video posted on YouTube. “I have been getting harassed nonstop incessantly for the past 10 years since Big Brother was on in 2014.” Rance continued, “I have received extremely specific and vulgar emails about myself, my family and they are threatening and they are direct threats to not only my life but my family’s life my friends’ life and it was time for me to come out to the public and discuss what’s going on here and ask you guys for help.” The Big Brother alum appeared on the show in 2014 and formed a close friendship with Frankie Grande, which made fans ship them as “Zankie.” “Him and I had a very close friendship in the house.

A lot of the fans and a lot of the people who watch Big Brother thought that when we were to come out of the house we would have been in a relationship,” Rance said. “That wasn’t the case because we weren’t dating after the show.

And our ‘showmance’ didn’t end up coming to fruition.” Rance noted that many fans “were extremely invested in Zankie” and were subsequently “disappointed” that the couple didn’t continue after the show.