During two truths and a lie within the first episode, Carly claims her well-known relative is her uncle. She says he is an Oscar-winning musician however reveals to the digital camera that he is truly one of many greatest actors in Hollywood. When the contestants see the clue wall, she’s instantly confused as a result of a “bunch of clues” relate to her. The different contestants level out a inexperienced bench that harkens again to “Forrest Gump” and marvel if somebody is expounded to
Tom Hanks.
At the tip of the episode, contestant Hugo guesses that Carly’s uncle is Hanks, and he is proper! Carly instantly begins crying, although she does rave about her well-known uncle. “He’s all the time been there for me, and never solely is he so variety however he is so humorous and so sensible,” she says. “Everything that you simply hear about Tom is true. He is the nicest man in Hollywood.”
But as she heads again to the home to pack her bag, Carly screams that it was unfair as a result of her clues had been “so freaking apparent.” “Why a bench?! Why a bench?!” she yells. “There’s actually no references to benches in another film!”
Carly, whose full identify is Carly Reeves, instructed USA Today that she’s technically Hanks’s niece by marriage. Her mother is the sister of Hanks’s spouse, Rita Wilson. Previously, Carly appeared in two of her uncle’s movies, 2007’s “Charlie Wilson’s War” and 2011’s “Larry Crowne.”
In her interview, Carly stated she utilized for “Claim to Fame” herself and defined, “I believed completely it could be nice publicity, even when it was simply that individuals knew me from my uncle. I’ve all the time wished to be exterior of the highlight from him, however now I’m like, ‘Well, I assume we’re doing this. We’re sharing [it] with the world.'” She instructed the outlet that Hanks and Wilson and her cousins Colin and Chet had been “actually pleased” for her to go on the present.