Who’s Adam Related to on Claim to Fame Season 3? His Secret Famous Family Member Finally Identified

Jason Pham
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Warning: Claim to Fame season 3 spoilers ahead. Mystery, solved! After a thorough investigation (and the help of Reddit), we found who Michael is related to on Claim to Fame Season 3, and once you see the clues, everything makes sense.

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Adam is one of 11 contestants on the third season of Claim to Fame, ABC’s reality TV series where contestants must correctly guess each other’s secret celebrity relatives, while keeping their own famous family member a secret. The series, which is hosted by brothers Kevin Jonas and Frankie Jonas, has featured the relatives of celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg, Zendaya, Dolly Parton, Tom Hanks, and former President Jimmy Carter.

Claim to Fame executive producer Eric Detwiler explained to TV Insider in July 2024 how Season 3 upped the ante from previous seasons. “We’ve worked to elevate [the challenges] and tweak them, so that the players can’t figure out the game,” Detwiler said. “One of my favorite things has been the evolution of how we do some of our blindfold challenges. In Season 1, we had all of the contestants lined up, and they were reaching their hands into a box to try to feel the item that was a clue and identify the item. In Season 2, we changed that into a team challenge and had them out on that big grass area with the statues where they were trying to figure out, as they felt these giant statues, what these items were. There’s a wrinkle on that in this coming season.”

Who’s Adam related to on Claim to Fame Season 3?

Who's Adam related to on Claim to Fame Season 3?
Who's Adam related to on Claim to Fame Season 3?

Adam’s celebrity relative is singer Michael Bolton. Adam, whose full name is Adam Cristoferson, is Bolton’s nephew. Adam’s two truths and a lie also confirm that Bolton is his celebrity relative.

His two truths and a lie were that his relative is his uncle, an actor, and won a Grammy. Adam mother is Bolton’s sister, making Bolton his uncle. Bolton has also won two Grammy Awards: one in 1990 in the Best Male Pop Vocal Performance category for the song “How Am I Supposed to Live Without You” and a second in 1992 in the same category for the song “When a Man Loves the Woman.” This means that Adam’s lie was that his celebrity relative is an actor.

The clues on the clue wall that support Bolton as Adam’s celebrity relative include a lightning bolt, a reference to the last name Bolton. Adam, who is also a musician, also confirmed he was Bolton’s in an interview with Zip06 in 2018. “Music has always been very powerful for me, you know, coming through special education it was hard to find value,” he said. “I would say music and poetry became my outlet and my way of kind of staying out of trouble.”

Who’s Michael Bolton, Adam’s relative?

Bolton is a singer and the former lead singer of the hard rock band Blackjack, which he performed with from 1979 to 1989. Bolton’s big break as a solo artist came in 1990 when he released the single “How Can We Be Lovers?” from his album Soul Provider. The song peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100.

Bolton’s other hits include 1990’s”When I’m Back on My Feet Again”; 1991’s “Love Is a Wonderful Thing” and “When a Man Loves a Woman” (his first number one song on the Billboard Hot 100), and 1993’s “Said I Loved You… But I Lied.” As of 2024, Bolton, who is best known as a pop ballad singer, has released 24 studio albums and sold more than 28 million albums in the United States. Along with being a celebrity relative on Claim to Fame, Bolton has also been a contestant on The Masked Singer Season 9 and Dancing With the Stars Season 11.

Claim to Fame is available to stream on Hulu.

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