Sprouse Twin's Shocking Family Secret Revealed

Charlie Cotton (0:08)

Hey, good afternoon, welcome to the TMZ Afternoon Edition.

Gianna (0:12)

Yeah.

Charlie Cotton (0:13)

How are you doing, Gianna?

Gianna (0:14)

I'm good.

Brendon Geoffrion (0:15)

Gosh.

Gianna (0:15)

Happy to be here, guys.

Charlie Cotton (0:16)

So, Gianna was the podcast intern, what, a year ago?

Gianna (0:21)

Exactly this semester last year.

Charlie Cotton (0:24)

Right, right. So, that was Christmas time of your birthday, 2025

Gianna (0:31)

Thanksgiving, 2025

Charlie Cotton (0:32)

It's 2026 now.

Gianna (0:33)

Yep.

Charlie Cotton (0:34)

Hey, well, welcome back. Gianna now is a full-time employee. This is nothing new. She's been here for how long now?

Gianna (0:42)

This is back since May, so about five months.

Charlie Cotton (0:47)

So, you came back when I started my no sugar diet.

Brendon Geoffrion (0:51)

Yeah, this is huge.

Charlie Cotton (0:52)

That's a really easy way for me to remember when you just joined.

Gianna (0:55)

Yeah, it's the same marker.

Brendon Geoffrion (0:57)

What do you do here?

Charlie Cotton (0:58)

What do you do here now?

Gianna (0:59)

I'm a web editor for the websites. You'll see me sometimes on the Daily Reef Talia's show, sometimes on the TV show alongside you.

Charlie Cotton (1:10)

Not sometimes, you're on every other day or so. Yeah. Pitching stories.

Gianna (1:14)

I pitch more.

Charlie Cotton (1:14)

The TMZ flagship TV show on Fox.

Brendon Geoffrion (1:16)

Yes.

Charlie Cotton (1:17)

Really cool to see because you started as a podcast intern right across that camera, helping us produce this show, writing the notes, running the live streams, whatever that might have been. I mean, technically, we can say, Tony and I can say that we created you. Yeah.

Gianna (1:33)

No, you guys are my Yoda.

Brendon Geoffrion (1:34)

Right.

Gianna (1:35)

So you know that.

Charlie Cotton (1:36)

Not that old, though.

Brendon Geoffrion (1:37)

Am I old?

Gianna (1:38)

No, no.

Brendon Geoffrion (1:39)

How old are you?

Gianna (1:39)

No, I'm 23 Well, I'll be 23 in a few weeks.

Charlie Cotton (1:42)

Yeah, we're not that far apart.

Gianna (1:43)

No.

Charlie Cotton (1:43)

27

Gianna (1:44)

Yeah. You're still in your 20s.

Charlie Cotton (1:46)

Still in my 20s. I'm excited for my 30s, too.

Gianna (1:49)

Yeah. The no-sugar diet is giving 30

It is.

Charlie Cotton (1:52)

Starting early. Anyways, I'm sure you guys want to hear about what we're here to talk about, which is the Sprouse twins.

Gianna (1:59)

Crazy.

Charlie Cotton (2:00)

You know the Sprouse twins.

Gianna (2:01)

Love.

Charlie Cotton (2:02)

Sweet Life of Zach and Cody growing up.

Gianna (2:04)

The best.

Charlie Cotton (2:04)

Sweet Life on Deck.

Big Disney show. If you're older, you may have not watched this growing up. But this is a big show. So the twins, Dylan and Cole Sprouse, big revelation revealed, big wild family secret just dropped about their family and how they were intertwined.

Brendon Geoffrion (2:23)

Yeah, this is crazy.

Charlie Cotton (2:25)

So Dylan Sprouse went on a podcast, The Wild Men Podcast on Tuesday, and said that he recently discovered that he and Cole are children of incest. Let's play the clip now.

Dylan Sprouse (2:38)

So the family's married in California in the late 1800s. And then they diverged.

And then they married again with my mom and my dad.

SPEAKER_5 (2:53)

A few.

Dylan Sprouse (2:54)

Like last generation.

SPEAKER_5 (2:56)

Wait, so it's your great grandparents?

Dylan Sprouse (2:58)

So my family tree goes like this.

SPEAKER_5 (3:05)

Does that mean your parents are the same grandparents? Dude, I saw this.

Brendon Geoffrion (3:11)

I called Cole.

Dylan Sprouse (3:12)

I showed him a picture. I called Cole and I was like, dude, I just found out some crazy shit.

SPEAKER_5 (3:18)

You guys are twins.

Dylan Sprouse (3:18)

And I sent him a picture and he goes, not looking at that, closed it, hung up on me. And the only reason I started to get suspicious is because when I started talking to my dad's side of the family, I found out that his uncles were identical twins.

Now, I had only ever thought that identical twins or twins in general had come from my mom's side of the family, which we have seven sets of twins in four generations, which is crazy. It's a lot of twins. And the reason we have a lot of twins is because it's the same family.

Brendon Geoffrion (3:56)

I was gonna say it's the same family, right? It's like four families.

SPEAKER_5 (3:59)

Your uncle's here. Yeah. Above that, above that, above that, and then it's joint here.

Dylan Sprouse (4:03)

I think his name was... So you're like Guy Sprouse and her name was Bonnie Bell Wright.