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Disney/Erica Hernandez;Ivan Apfel/Getty ImagesClaim to fame season 3 contestant Naomi Brandt wouldn’t have done the ABC reality show without her cousin’s blessing Molly Ringwald.
Warning: This article contains spoilers for season 3 of Claim to fame.
“I have so much respect for Molly that I would never have even thought of doing this if she wasn’t okay with it,” Naomi shared exclusively. Our Weekly after she was eliminated during the Wednesday, July 31 episode. ‘I needed her approval for myself. [I] said, ‘Is this something you’re comfortable with? I’m quite interested in it, but if you don’t want to, I definitely won’t.’ And she said, ‘You know what, why not? Have fun.'”
Naomi added that “privacy is very important” in her family, and Ringwald, 56, reminded her of that before appearing on Claim to fame.
“She [was] like, ‘As long as you respect my privacy like you always have, we’re golden,'” Naomi recalled. “[She said]’Have fun.'”
Ringwald recently chose to stay out of the spotlight by not participating Andrew McCarthy‘s documentary Bratswhich premiered on Hulu in June. Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Jon Cryer, Demi Moore And Rob Lowe all caught up with McCarthy, 61 Brats about their experiences with the Brat Pack label.
Last month, McCarthy spoke exclusively Us that he wished Ringwald had sat down with him for the film because of her “eloquent and insightful” perspective.
“She said she would think about it and that was really the end of it,” he said of asking Ringwald to participate.
Andrew McCarthy reclaims the Brat Pack name with the help of his former co-stars, some of whom he hasn’t seen in thirty years. Spoilers for Brats ahead. “If you came of age in the 1980s, the Brat Pack was at or near the center of your cultural consciousness,” McCarthy, 61, said during […]
Naomi, meanwhile, never had to ask Ringwald specifically Claim to fame because the 16 candles actress heard her tell another family member about the show.
“When I got the chance, the first thing I did was call [Molly’s] mother. She’s hard of hearing because she’s older, and so she had me on speakerphone and I was like, ‘Aunt Adele, you’ll never guess. [what’s happening]Naomi recalled Us. “And suddenly I hear: ‘What are you talking about?’ And I thought, ‘Is Molly there?’ And she said, ‘Yes.’ And I thought, ‘Well, great. Let’s just have a family meeting. ”
Naomi, whose name is @n.elizajane Instagram And TikTokspent time with Molly’s family during her childhood, which strengthened her bond with her cousins.
“I feel like it was more than cousins, but less than siblings,” Naomi explained. “Because I had so much love and respect for her parents and saw them as pseudo-parental figures to myself, I started to see them as more than cousins just because of how close we were.”
Naomi added that after she graduated, Ringwald and her husband Panio Gianopoulosencouraged her to move to Los Angeles, where they lived.
A romance for decades! Molly Ringwald didn’t have to wish for sixteen candles to find her true love in husband Panio Gianopoulos. The ’80s icon and the writer may be one of Hollywood’s quieter couples, but they are certainly among the strongest. After Ringwald split from ex-husband Valery Lameignère in 2002, she welcomed daughter […]
“They said, ‘You don’t know if you want to go to college yet, why don’t you come here and see what you want to do?’” she recalled. “I was able to travel, I was able to do things that I would never have done otherwise. I am so grateful for all the opportunities that offers [Molly] gave me.”
Naomi’s elimination Claim to fame marked the first time all season that a contestant correctly guessed another player’s famous relative. (Bianca Roberts, Jill Kurlfink, Gracie Lou Hyland And Raphael “Miguel” Curtis were all previously eliminated after making wrong guesses.) Although Naomi’s ally Adam He suspected that he had not come up with the information himself. He had to write Ringwald’s name on his arm to remember it while guessing.
“He actually didn’t know who she was,” Naomi said Us. “The frustrating part was finding out who he wrote it to [his] arm.”
Naomi’s other ally Hat eventually tipped Adam off about her secret celebrity connection after he became paranoid that she had an idea about his relative. Although the trio agreed to obtain each other’s clues and protect them from other competitors, Hud ultimately decided that Naomi was too much of a threat to his game.
“It was just a big miscommunication,” Naomi said. “I did allude to Hud who I thought was his person, and I was wrong. … He just wasn’t paying attention to what I was saying. We talked about that afterwards, and we laughed hysterically at each other, because he said, “I should have listened to what you said, because if I knew you hadn’t gone all the way through my idea, I would have name never given to Adam.’”
Despite feeling betrayed by Hud and calling Adam “entitled” on the show, Naomi doesn’t hold any grudges against her former allies.
“We’re all friends now, the whole cast,” she said. “We have a saying: ‘What happens in the house, stays in the house.’ We are all super close.”
Claim to fame airs Wednesdays on ABC at 9pm ET.