Frankie Grande Shares How Family Will Celebrate 1st Holidays Without Nonna

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00:00My memoir is coming out in May, and Nona is throughout the entire book.

00:04Lots of Nona stories. It's called Super Gay, obviously.

00:07And I'm just really grateful that we've already started the tradition of saying the amazing stories about my Nona.

00:13Well, and I know that this is going to be the first holidays without her.

00:17How are you guys, are you doing anything to honor her as a family?

00:21Is there a tradition that you're going to keep up?

00:22We have some ornaments that remind me of her, and there's a picture of us that we're going to hang on the tree.

00:27And we're going to make her Nona's Meatballs and Nona's Zeypola.

00:30So she has a recipe that she passed down to my mother and then to me and to Ari.

00:36And we've been cooking it every year since she hasn't been able to actually stand at the stove for the past few years.

00:41It will be very different making it without her there at all.

00:44But we know she's there, you know.

00:46She's there. She's watching.

00:47She's going to smell that garlic cooking in the fried oil, and she's going to be like, mmm, it smells good.

00:52Actually, she'll probably have notes.

00:54Yeah, she'll have notes. She'll be like, there's too much milk in that.

00:56What does Christmas look like for you?

00:58What are you the most excited to celebrate this year?

01:00I'm, oh my God, I love the Rockettes, so I really want to go see the Rockettes.

01:06Oh, because you've got that time for that anniversary.

01:07Yeah, I'm really excited. I love the Rockettes.

01:10I want to go see Cher sing DJ Play a Christmas Song at SNL.

01:14I've got to be in the room for that one with my sister, so that's fun.

01:17I love an Ariana host, so I can't wait to see what she does.

01:19And Christmas is busy already, my God.

01:22I'm going on tour, sleigh ride tour with Alyssa Edwards and Corey King,

01:26going into red and purple cities as well as some blue ones,

01:29so look up the tour schedule, dropping a new single December 5th.

01:32I mean, hopefully at Christmas, I'm asleep.