Who Is Mackenzie 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: eleven 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 in the main post, plus a separate spoilers section for what internet sleuths have discovered outside the show. Here's everything we have learned about Mackenzie and my predictions:
Who is Mackenzie's Claim to Fame celebrity relative?
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Episode 3 clues
We didn't get much specifically from Mackenzie this week, but there is bound to be one clue hidden in the pair of limericks that were read in the telephone challenge. The bold lines are the ones that we've already connected to a different contestant, ruling those out for Mackenzie.
Limerick #1
On the mountain there once was a lion, (Hud)
In a handsome rose dress she was stylin, (Naomi)
But her dancing was bad, (Dedrick)
And it made the town sad,
So they shipped her right off to the island.
Limerick #2
His toga was in disarray,
On an oddly peculiar Friday, (Miguel)
He wrote a honky tonk song,
But his hair was too long,
And his pompadour needed a spray.
Episode 2 clues
In the second episode Mackenzie reveals to the audience that the "goatee" in the canoeing challenge is the clue that goes with her relative.
Episode 1 clues
Two truths and a lie:
My celebrity relative is my: DAD (Truth)
My celebrity relative is best known for being an: SINGER (Truth)
The biggest award my celebrity relative has won: TONY (Lie)
Mackenzie shared with us that her relative has no connection to Broadway.
The other contestants' best guess
No one else has really taken a stab at who they think Mackenzie is related to.
Parade's prediction for celebrity relative
Keith Urban
Steven Tyler
A male singer with a goatee? Welp. That doesn't help me much.
INTERNET SPOILERS
While not based on information from the show, sleuths on the internet have, of course, been able to sniff out the identities of most of the cast using Instagram, news articles, old yearbooks, birth records, chatroom gossip, etc. Below is what they've uncovered.
Based on Instagram posts, the internet has sleuthed out that Mackenzie is the daughter of country music legend Trace Adkins.
Claim to Fame airs Wednesday nights at 9 p.m. ET on ABC.
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