Who Is Cole from 'Claim to Fame' Related To?: An Investigation

Step aside Sherlock Holmes! This season, I will be doing my darnedest to figure out the secret identities of the Claim to Fame contestants. The show's premise is simple enough: twelve contestants enter a Hollywood mansion, each is related to a A-list celebrity. The person who can keep their relative's identity a secret for the longest wins!

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As I'm watching along each week, I'll be attempting to piece together the clues and determine the relative of each contestant, cataloging the information we learn along the way. Spoilers for all episodes that have aired. Here's everything we have learned about Cole and my predictions: 

Who is Cole's Claim to Fame celebrity relative?

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ABC/Gizelle Hernandez

Episode 1 clues

Two Truths and a Lie:

  • Relative: Father

  • Occupation: Singer

  • Award: Grammy

We really got no new information regarding Cole in this episode. He flew under the radar and other than a brief snippet of him spray painting a canvas in the talent show, we didn't learn much.

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The other contestants' best guess

The other contestants haven't weighed in on Cole yet.

Parade's prediction for celebrity relative

Beyonce

Alicia Keys

Stevie Wonder

The Grammy/singer combination match up so the lie is probably that its Cole's father. That opens it up to literally any singer. Beyonce's cousin? Alicia Keys' brother? Stevie Wonder's grandson? Could be anyone, and given that we don't know much about him, there's a lot of racial ambiguity at play here as well.

Claim to Fame airs Monday nights at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

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