Her biggest fan! Olivia Jade Giannulli‘s mom, Lori Loughlin, made a cameo appearance in the influencer’s latest vlog post.
The social media star, 22, shared a YouTube video on Tuesday, July 5, that shows her making coffee cake and working out — and later, talking to the Full House alum, 57.
“Say, ‘Hey!’” Giannulli says to her mom, who appears on FaceTime while the YouTuber and her friend are in a car. After Loughlin waves and replies, the content creator dons a faux British accent and adds, “Cutie pie! She’s a cutie pie. I want to eat her because she’s so cute.”
The former Fuller House star plays along, telling her youngest daughter, “Hey, cutie!” The New York City native and her husband, Mossimo GiannulliBella, aged 23 years, is also their daughter.
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While Olivia Jade was well-known to her fans for her videos on the web, she became a household name in the wake of the college admissions scandal. Her mother, 59, and father, pleaded guilty to fraud charges in May 2020. They were accused of taking bribes to get their daughters accepted at the University of Southern California.
The When the Heart CallsThe alum was sentenced to two months imprisonment and was fined $150,000. Her husband, however, was sentenced to five months and a $250,000 fine. After the scandal, Olivia Jade admitted that her parents’ actions were “really bad,” but she noted that she thought what they did came from a place of love.
“We had the means to do something and we completely took it and ran with it. It was something that it was wrong,” the Dancing With the StarsDuring a December 2020 Episode of “The Simpsons,” an alum stated. Red Table Talk. “But I think what a lot of people don’t know is my parents came from a place of just, ‘I love my kids, I just want to help my kids — whatever is best for them — [and] I worked my whole life to provide for my family.’ I think they thought it was normal.”
The “Conversations With Olivia Jade” podcast host added that she confronted her parents after their arrest and they both apologized for their actions. “I know they’re good people,” the beauty influencer told Jada pinkett Smith, Willow Smith Adrienne Banfield-Norris. “I know that I’m not gonna judge them for a mistake they made. Although it’s a big one, they’re gonna pay the price for it. … I know that they’ve struggled.”
