Who Are Claim to Fame’s Celeb Family Members?

This post has been updated with new clues, confirmations, and eliminations. Claim to Fame is the perfect summer reality series: It’s mindless and low-stakes enough to feel breezy, but also invites enough wild speculation to make it seem like it somehow matters if someone is Jason Aldean’s cousin or Nick Cannon’s brother. And because we’re playing along at home with the contestants trying to sniff out their fellow fame-adjacents before getting eliminated themselves, it’s more satisfying than, say, The Masked Singer , where the embarrassingly off-base guesses Jenny McCarthy and company have been known to throw around can make the show’s reveals anti-climactic.

On Claim to Fame , when it’s revealed that someone is Tom Hanks’s niece , that shit lands . The contestants on Claim to Fame also don’t necessarily aspire to be famous and they’re not thrashing around in some desperate attempt to remain relevant, a la RuPaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race or We Are Family. Sure, some of them would undoubtedly love to come out on the other side with a few more social-media followers and some name recognition of their own, but most of them seem to genuinely be in it for the $100,000 in prize money, which — for the very un-famous relative of someone actually famous — is nothing to sneeze at.

But who are the celebrity relatives of these 11 hopefuls who are vying for not only the Claim to Fame crown but for the hard-earned approval of hosts Kevin and Franklin Jonas? Her.