Tom Hanks’ Niece Got Kicked Off A Reality Show, And Her Exit Was Absolutely Bonkers

Elyse Wanshel
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Carly Reeves and Tom Hanks.
Carly Reeves and Tom Hanks.

Carly Reeves and Tom Hanks.

Holidays at the Hanks’ household must be wild. 

Carly Reeves — Tom Hanks’ niece — has currently dethroned the actor’s son, Chet Hanks, as the famous family’s most out-there member thanks to a brief but memorable appearance on “Claim to Fame.”

The ABC reality show, hosted by brothers Kevin and Frankie Jonas, pits 12 contestants — all related to celebrities — against one another as they compete to figure out which famous person is related to each contestant. The person who can conceal the identity of their well-known relative the longest is awarded a $100,000 prize.

That lucky winner this season will not be Reeves, however, because she was cast away from the competition during Monday night’s Season 2 premiere.  

Fellow contestant, Hugo, guessed Reeves was related to Hanks after correctly interpreting a park bench and a ping-pong paddle as references to 1994’s “Forrest Gump.”  

And although those clues made Reeves’ link to the “Big” star pretty obvious, no one could have predicted how she would respond to getting the boot — and her reaction is making quite the splash online.

In a clip that’s gone viral on Twitter, Reeves is seen leaving the elimination ceremony in tears. As the ceremony ends, a scream is suddenly heard off camera. The camera then follows Reeves, as she climbs the stairs to her room and has a straight-up tantrum as she packs up her stuff to leave. 

“Why a bench? Why a bench? There’s literally no reference to a bench in any other movie!” Reeves yells in the clip, before dissing one of her fellow contestants.

“Even Gabriel found that out, he’s not even, like, smart!” she fumes.

But the most telling aspect of Reeves’ meltdown occurs a bit later when she screeches:

“I don’t deserve this! I should have more camera time! I should be here longer!”

Twitter users felt Reeves’ antics were in a league of their own.

“I think I overreacted a little bit,” Reeves told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published Tuesday. “I’m an emotional, very dramatic person. I was really angry that I didn’t get a chance to play as long as some of [the] 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.”

She also addressed the “camera time” line while speaking to the outlet. “That’s just so silly of me to say. But I also was just saying things out of my mouth,” Reeves explained.

She added her uncle is well aware that she participated in the reality show but has mixed feelings about whether or not she wants him to watch the episode.

“I mean, maybe I don’t want him to watch it because I don’t want to embarrass him for any reason,” Reeves said. “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… 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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