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Tom Hanks' Niece Reveals His Reaction to Viral Claim to Fame Meltdown
Here you travel again—the latest elimination connected Claim to Fame, that is.
Contestant Jada Star Roberts, who went by Jane, reached the extremity of her clip connected the ABC bid after fans learned that her aunt is nary different than Dolly Parton.
In fact, the vocalist adjacent made a speedy cameo, sending a video connection to her niece pursuing her elimination.
"Hey, Jada. I americium truthful arrogant of you," Dolly said successful the clip. "It's been a joyousness watching you turn up. You cognize however overmuch I've loved you and however adjacent we've ever been, being your aunt and all. So arrogant of you, girl."
And Jada—who noted that her aunt was the 1 to sanction her—sent the emotion close back.
"This is wherefore I wanted to beryllium present successful the archetypal place," she said, "because I wanted a accidental to archer the full satellite that she is precisely what you anticipation she is."
Jada's elimination came aft she was enactment successful the blistery spot and picked chap contestant Chris arsenic her target, giving her the accidental to conjecture Chris' celebrity relative. But erstwhile she recovered retired her conjecture of the precocious Elvis Presley was wrong, her celebrated household subordinate was revealed.
And she took the infinitesimal successful stride, explaining earlier the large reveal, "I can't wait. I emotion them truthful much."
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While the elimination was a heartbreaker for Jada, she couldn't beryllium happier to speech astir what it's like having Dolly arsenic her aunt.
"I got further than I ever thought I would," she added. "I truly was successful it to triumph it. However, however tin you fell a superstar similar Dolly Parton from anybody?"
As for what the 10-time Grammy victor thought of her appearing on the show?
"I didn't get connected the amusement for me, who americium I?" Jada told USA Today, noting she called Dolly to perceive what she thought of her doing it. "I got connected the amusement due to the fact that my aunt is everyone's fairy godmother. Everyone loves her. When she saw what it was, and erstwhile I explained it to her, she said she was truly proud. She told maine she knew it was scary for maine due to the fact that she knows that I person a batch of anxiety. She was a small disquieted astir maine determination but she was besides truly arrogant that I was getting retired of my comfortableness zone. She's the champion cheerleader connected Earth."
And conscionable remember, Dolly—Jada volition ever emotion you.
"It's wonderful," she added astir their relationship. "She is the implicit champion aunt you could ever imagination of—for each of my cousins and our family, she's [our] ma and she's [our] confidant. She's got you erstwhile it feels similar nary 1 other has got you. She would ever marque jokes about, ‘Well, I'm similar a grandma. You get to come, and I spoil you, and past you get to spell location to your parents.' So we conscionable called her Aunt Granny."
Claim to Fame, hosted by Kevin and Franklin Jonas, airs Monday nights astatine 8 p.m. ET connected ABC.
