How Are Shane & Dedrick Associated on Declare to Fame Season 3?

Warning: Declare to Fame Season 3 spoilers forward. As if having the 2 most well-known superstar relations in Declare to Fame historical past wasn’t sufficient, Season 3 contestants Shane and Dedrick are additionally associated to one another, although not in the way in which followers would possibly suspect. 

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Shane and Dedrick are two of the 11 contestants on Season 3 of Declare to Fame, ABC‘s actuality TV competitors collection wherein relations of celebrities should accurately guess one another’s well-known members of the family whereas protecting their very own a secret. The collection, which is hosted by brothers Kevin Jonas and Frankie Jonas and first premiered in 2022, has featured stars like  Alicia Keys, Dolly Parton, and Tom Hanks. However nobody’s degree of fame compares to Shane and Dedrick’s superstar relations on Declare to Fame Season 3. To make issues much more attention-grabbing, Shane and Dedrick are literally associated. However not in the way in which chances are you’ll suppose. 

Whereas Shane and Dedrick aren’t biologically associated, they do have a secret connection on Declare to Fame Season 3 due to their superstar relations. 

Shane’s grandfather is actor Marlon Brando, whereas Dedrick’s uncle is singer Michael Jackson. Although Brando and Jackson aren’t associated, Brando’s son, Miko Brando (Shane’s father), was a former bodyguard for Jackson. Reddit customers have additionally shared a photograph of Miko and Shane as a child with Jackson. 

Shane additionally hinted at his connection to Jackson within the premiere of Declare to Fame Season 3 when he revealed that he’d been to each Elvis Presley’s Graceland and Jackson’s Neverland, which led the solid to imagine that he was associated to Jackson. “I’ve been to Graceland and Neverland. I even had birthdays there,” he mentioned, to which a solid member requested, “Is it every part they are saying it’s?” Shane replied, “And extra.” 

In a confessional interview, Dedrick hinted at Shane’s menace to his recreation due to his relation to Jackson. “Apparently, Shane. He’s gone as much as Neverland Valley Ranch. He’s met Michael Jackson,” Dedrick mentioned. Danny additionally speculated that Shane was associated to Jackson. “He have to be associated to a Jackson since you don’t simply get into Neverland,” Danny informed his solid mates. 

Miko is Brando’s son from his marriage to his second spouse, Movita Castaneda, whom he was married to from 1960 to 1968. In an interview with The Los Angeles Occasions in 2004, Miko revealed that one of many final those who Brando noticed earlier than his demise on July 1, 20024, was Jackson. “The final time my father left his home to go wherever, to spend any sort of time, it was with Michael Jackson,” Miko mentioned. “He liked it … [He] had a 24-hour chef, 24-hour safety, 24-hour assist, 24-hour kitchen, 24-hour maid service.”

Jackson additionally attended Brando’s memorial service, together with actors Sean Penn, Jack Nicholson, and Warren Beatty, based on The Los Angeles Occasions. Whereas Brando is Shane’s grandfather, Jackson is Dedrick’s uncle. Dedrick is the son of Jackson’s older brother, Sigmund Esco “Jackie” Jackson, who shares Dedrick, whose actual identify is Sigmund “Siggy” Esco Jackson Jr., along with his first spouse Enid Adren. 

Government producer Eric Detwiler additionally hinted at a connection between two Declare to Fame Season 3 contestants in an interview with TV Insider in June 2024. When the preliminary casting choices began coming in, we discovered that there have been some attention-grabbing uncovered connections between potential contestants that we actually needed to make the most of,” he mentioned. “That is going to trigger some mind-bending confusion after which some fairly epic reveals based mostly on who these persons are and the place they arrive from.”

He added, “Each season, we’ve tried to greatest ourselves by way of the extent of iconic superstar relations that we are able to guide for the present, however it actually all begins with desirous about what are the classes we wish to discover every season? Who’re the individuals which can be on the high of the sport in [their respective] classes?”

Declare to Fame is offered to stream on Hulu.