The now-47-year-olds were 21 when they auditioned for Supermarket Sweep on one of those college student, “wouldn’t this be a funny story one day?” whims. Brandon regrettably couldn’t attend Kevin’s because it was in Hawaii and his daughter had just been born. They’re still great friends, though they see each other less now that Kevin’s family lives in Texas. Kevin occasionally succumbs to curiosity and searches #SupermarketSweep on Twitter, where he discovered the swath of tweets saying, as he puts it, “Roommates? Hahaha…” Brandon hadn’t know that part of their viral fame was owed to the presumption that they were a closeted couple, and people’s hopes that they were still together all these years later.īoth find it very funny, and both clarify that they are indeed straight-Kevin is married with three sons and a foster daughter, and Brandon has a daughter with his ex-wife.
Neither Brandon, who lives in Santa Clarita, Calif., nor Kevin, who lives in Austin, Tex., are on social media, and have been relying on friends and family to keep them posted on their new viral fame. Like Cher and Madonna, the icons of the game show world are simply Brandon and Kevin, and, against typical journalistic style, we will be referring to them as such.) (“Brandon and Kevin” have become so ubiquitous among Supermarket Sweep bingers in recent weeks that it wasn’t until writing up this story that I realized I forgot to even ask them their last names and had to go back to them to find out. Still, the question remained: Where are they now, were they really just roommates, and, most importantly, are they still friends? After putting more effort into searching than I care to admit, I tracked down Brandon L’Herault and Kevin Keenan to talk about their friendship-still going strong!-their epic episode, and behind-the-scenes secrets of Supermarket Sweep. These are two young, attractive men with nice haircuts who are “roommates.” Was this a euphemism for something more? When host David Ruprecht asks Brandon how he knows Kevin, Brandon says, “Kevin is my roommate from Santa Barbara.” This was the ’90s. There are videos online of people watching them play, marveling over the extent to which they owned the trivia rounds and then their strategy in the sweeps.įinally, the way they introduced themselves had people wondering, “Are they… you know…?”
College students at University of California, Santa Barbara, they were not only the rare all-male team, but a good decade-maybe even two-younger than the average age of the women competing. While watching the entire collection of episodes is a curiously rousing experience, there’s one that has seemed to have garnered more attention to the others, thanks to a pair of young male contestants who have, in the last few weeks, gone viral.īrandon and Kevin originally stood out for demographic reasons.
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