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That’s Favre’s daughter Brittany on ‘Claim to Fame’
You guessed it. That’s a Brittany with a Favre connection on “Claim to Fame.”
The oldest daughter of Green Bay Packers great Brett Favre revealed her identity to viewers during Monday night’s episode. Her fellow competitors, however, don’t know who she is with 100% certainty yet, but they’re quickly zeroing in.
The 12 contestants on ABC’s new reality show are all related to celebrities, but with $100,000 on the line, the name of the game is to keep their identities hidden from one another. The one who holds out the longest wins. Viewers are told who some of the contestants are but not all.
Brittany teased her famous family connection in the first episode July 11 by saying her dad is a Super Bowl champion and Hall of Fame quarterback. It was enough to start the wheels turning for astute Packers fans. On Monday night, she confirmed it, complete with childhood photos with her father.
“My dad and I are really close. I did inherit his competitive nature. At my house, winning is the only option,” Brittany said. “I was born before he became successful so I got to witness the entire rise from an unknown to known. Don’t let my kindness fool you. I used to be an attorney and know how to win. I am so competitive that I hurt feelings.”
She also has a bit of Brett’s sense of humor.
During a conversation with Logan, with whom she’s struck up a friendship, he told her he thinks her famous dad is probably former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw.
“You think I look like Terry Bradshaw?” Brittany fires back.
Logan later made the Packers connection by spotting a wedge of cheese in a collage of objects on a wall in the house meant to offer clues to identities.
“Cheese hats. Green Bay Packers. Brett Favre. Broke every record. Won a
Super Bowl with ’em. It’s all making sense . ... I think I know who Brittany is.”
But he also wondered aloud for a brief second, “It’s not Aaron Rodgers?” So there’s that.
Logan, whose family connection is to an Academy of Country Music
Award winner, called Brittany “the smartest person in this house.”
“She can read half the people in here like a book,” he said. “Why would I want to get rid of her?”
What may come as shocking news to Packers fans, not everyone knows who Brett Favre is, even with clues.
“Now do I know who No. 4 is on the Green Bay Packers? Or course not,” the contestant who goes by X gleefully confessed.
Amara, who has been revealed as Whoopi Goldberg’s granddaughter, asked, “Do you know sports? What’s a cheesehead?”
Brittany ultimately survived to compete another week. The preview for the next episode has someone calling her “deeply diabolical” and another saying she must go.
“Claim to Fame” airs at 9 p.m. Mondays on ABC and streams on Hulu.
Dillon surprise fans touring the stadium
One day you’re leveling the Kenosha Kingfish mascot in a celebrity softball game with such ferocity his foam head flies off, and the next you’re high-fiving sweet little Packers fans in pigtails at Lambeau Field.
Welcome to AJ Dillon’s life.
The Green Bay Packers running back surprised a group taking a tour of Lambeau on Monday by showing up in uniform and posing for photos.
Nowhere on the website for stadium tours does it say your Classic, Legends or Championship level guided tour comes with an encounter with the player known as “Quadzilla.” For those lucky fans, it was simply being in the right place at the right time.
Dillon posted a video of the the encounter on Twitter, writing that filming for a commercial at Lambeau was paused while the tour group went through. “Perfect time for me to go surprise some fans,” he wrote.
He can be seen casually sauntering out into the hallway and greeting the group. When a fan asks, “Who are you? Can I take a picture with you?” he introduces himself and kneels down for the shot.
Someone off camera can be heard saying, “That, my folks, is somebody you don’t want to tackle.”
Dillon posed with adults and kids and interacted with “the best tour guides in the business.”