This morning, Fuller House star Lori Loughlin was one of over 40 people charged with fraud for an alleged involvement in a massive college admissions scheme. Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, have been accused of paying $500,000 in bribes to University of Southern California to get their daughters Isabella and Olivia accepted into the school. The couple also led the admissions committee to believe their daughters would serve as recruits for the women’s crew team though neither of the girls had ever rowed.
As this bizarre story has developed, many people have realized that Loughlin and Giannulli’s youngest daughter, Olivia Jade, is a famous YouTube vlogger known for her beauty tips and burgeoning beauty empire who recently launched a highlighter palette with Sephora. She’s racked up nearly 1.5 million subscribers on YouTube with a near identical number of followers on Instagram as well where she posted a couple items of back-to-school sponsored content. She even regularly invites Loughlin and her mom’s Full House co-star John Stamos to join her for videos where the 19-year-old teaches them slang terms.
Of course, by the nature of Olivia Jade’s life-sharing vlog, her college admission in the midst of a thriving YouTube career became a subject of her videos, interactions with fans and even interviews. Now, those comments have been subject to scrutiny given her parents’ alleged scams.
“I don’t know how much of school I’m gonna attend, but I’m gonna go in and talk to my deans and everyone, and hope that I can try and balance it all,” she said in a fan Q&A video that was published in August 2018 on college move-in day. “But I do want the experience of like game days, partying…I don’t really care about school, as you guys all know.”
Even before the felony charges her family is facing, the beauty guru already faced a backlash for those comments from fans who considered her of being “privileged.” She issued an apology (via another vlog, this time in black-and-white) two days later.