Carly Reeves seems to have one other declare to fame moreover being a relative of Tom Hanks.
“Y’all I was like, this girl looks SOOO familiar but thought, ‘There’s no way I’d know Tom Hanks’ niece,’” Ariana Madix’s good friend Logan Cochran tweeted on Thursday, June 29, after watching the season 2 premiere of Claim to Fame. “Until I remembered she used to be a manager @ SUR !!”
Lisa Vanderpump opened SUR, which stands for Sexy Unique Restaurant, in May 2005. Amid her stint on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, the 62-year-old actuality TV star landed her personal Vanderpump Rules spinoff to chronicle her life within the restaurant enterprise. Ariana, 38, joined the Bravo solid in season 2 after she was beforehand employed as a bartender alongside her now-ex Tom Sandoval and Jax Taylor. Fellow costars and present alums Scheana Shay, Katie Maloney, Stassi Schroeder, Raquel Leviss and Kristen Doute have additionally labored at Vanderpump’s SUR by way of the years as servers.
Carly, for her half, has not confirmed claims she labored as a supervisor of the eatery, however she is making waves for her look on ABC’s celeb guessing sport Claim to Fame, which premiered earlier this month.
On the fact TV competitors — which is hosted by Kevin Jonas and his youngest brother, Franklin Jonas — a bunch of 12 gamers try to resolve clues and riddles that establish their fellow contestants based mostly on their relations to varied celebrities. (Family members of the likes of Simone Biles, Jason Aldean and Keke Palmer beforehand appeared on season 1 of Claim to Fame.)
While Carly, 39, had hoped she had hid her id properly sufficient, Hugo appropriately guessed that Tom, 66, was her uncle at the top of the primary episode — and she or he had a meltdown.
“These freaking clues were so freaking obvious!” she shouted whereas packing her baggage. “[A] frickin’ bench that’s in the frickin’ poster of frickin’ Forrest Gump? Are you kidding me? Why a bench? There’s literally no benches on any other movie, even Gabriel found that out and he’s not even, like, smart!”
Carly added: “I didn’t even get to do any challenges! I don’t deserve this. I should have more camera time. I should be aired longer!”
The ABC alum later instructed Entertainment Weekly that she “overreacted” to her elimination. “I was really upset … but I’m an emotional, very dramatic person,” she instructed the outlet. “I was really angry that I didn’t get a chance to play as long as some of other contestants. I mean, there was no one to be angry at. I was just angry in general at myself, and at the fact that I was going home. And then that turned to complete despair and sadness. I even say, like, ‘I should get more camera time!’ That’s just so silly of me to say. But I also was just saying things out of my mouth.”
Carly additionally defined to EW that the Big star was “excited” for her to seem on Claim to Fame and hoped she did properly. “I hope I don’t embarrass him, but I don’t think I do. So, I would love for him to watch it, because I think it’s hilarious,” she added. “He’s happy for me no matter what. He did ask me, ‘Did you make some money?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, I made a little bit.’ And he said, ‘OK, good.’ So, he was happy that I made a little money.”
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Claim to Fame airs Mondays on ABC at 8 p.m. ET.
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