Tom Hanks’ troubled son Chet Hanks joins cast of MTV’s The Surreal Life reboot with reality TV queen Kim Zolciak and model Josie Canseco

Tom Hanks’ troubled son Chet Hanks has signed on to appear in the next season of The Surreal Life, which MTV rebooted last year.

The celebrity surveillance show premiered on the WB network in 2003 but moved to VHI for its third season before being revived in 2022 after a 16-year hiatus.

Beginning later this month, Chet, 33 — whose devotion to God recently inspired him to get a tattoo — will be holed up in Colombia with a slew of high-profile stars.

Reality TV queen Zim Zolciak, model Josie Canseco and singer Macy Gray, Fifth Harmony alum Ally Brooke, rapper O.T. Genasis and Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir will be under one roof with Chet.

The actor has yet to publicly confirm his addition to the cast as his social media pages have been wiped clean since July — but this marks his first reality TV venture.

Signed: Tom Hanks ‘ troubled son Chet Hanks has signed on to appear in the second season of The Surreal Life , which MTV rebooted last year

Nepo baby: He is the eldest son of Academy Award-winner Tom, 67, and his longtime wife and singer Rita Wilson, 66; seen in 2022

He is the eldest son of Academy Award-winner Tom, 67, and his longtime wife and singer Rita Wilson, 66. They’re also parents to 27-year-old Truman.

Chet has long been synonymous with controversy as he’s made headlines over the years for his erratic behavior in relation to drug and alcohol abuse.

He’s also been accused of domestic abuse by a former girlfriend and ‘cultural appropriation’ for impersonating a Jamaican accent.

Chet made headlines last year when he claimed his dad Tom — a beloved Hollywood leading man and philanthropist — was not a ‘strong male role model’ for him.

Scandal-plagued Chet is just the latest Hanks-Wilson family member to appear on reality TV.

Tom and Rita’s niece Carly Reeves went viral in June for having a massive meltdown on set of the ABC series Claim to Fame.

Her shocking on-camera outburst occurred shortly after learning she’d been eliminated from the show in the first episode.

She began screaming insults at other contestants and sobbed over not getting ‘more camera time.’

Amid the backlash, Carly claimed to TMZ that her famous Uncle was ‘totally fine’ with her behavior and insisted her rage was ‘real.’

Though he’s been similarly outspoken in the past, Chet has mostly kept to himself in recent months as he continues to devote himself to God.

He was a self-processed atheist before converting to Christianity in his late teens.

In his latest Instagram post shared July 27 — which has since been deleted — he debuted a massive cross tattoo on his chest. He uploaded a shirtless photo showcasing his ‘holy’ ink.

He also proclaimed that his life’s ‘purpose’ is to serve God and opened up about his troubled past in a four-slide text post.

‘I have been in character for as long as I’ve been in the public eye,’ Chet wrote in bold, white lettering.

‘I’ve played many roles and worn many masks. Actor. Rapper. Fitness guy. Lambo guy. None of them are the real me.

Full house: Beginning later this month, Chet, 33 — whose devotion to God recently inspired him to get a tattoo — will be holed up in Colombia with a slew of high-profile stars; seen in 2020

Star-studded: He will appear on screen with the likes of Josie Canseco (left) and reality TV queen Kim Zolciak

Chet confessed that he has long been ‘an expert at playing the fool because I learned it as a survival mechanism.

‘But the more I look around at the world I see that the world doesn’t need any more caricatures. False depictions of who we think we need to be.

‘There’s only on thing the world needs more of and that’s God,’ he continued.

Chet believes that his hardships — including his past struggles with addiction, infamously erratic behavior and domestic violence allegations — were due to the absence of God in his life.

‘All the pain in my life has resulted from one thing – the lie of believing that my purpose is anything but just serving God,’ the sober star wrote.

Chet concluded the post by admitting that he’s unsure how to best serve God but believe that God will guide him in the right direction.

‘It’s not fully clear to me yet how I can best serve Him but I feel that this level of honesty is a starting point. And I know He will continue to reveal more,’ he wrote.

He also encouraged his 530,000 followers to embark on their own spiritual journey by accepting God into their hearts.

The born-again Christian has since deleted the posts.

Chet recalled the moment ‘God revealed Himself to me’ during a 2021 appearance on Logan Paul’s IMPAULSIVE podcast.

Chet said he was an angry, rule-breaking 17-year-old when his parents sent him away to a 12-week camp in Utah wilderness.

During a hike, Chet found himself ‘overcome with emotion’ as he embraced the beauty of the landscape from an ‘elevated perspective.’

‘It felt like I was touched by the hand of God. It was at that moment God revealed Himself to me,’ he told Paul and his co-hosts.

All that anger, and that hate, and that resentment flipped. It inverted to just infinite hope, gratitude, peace, love. It just flipped on a dime, like that.

‘And I was so overcome by emotion, I just sat at the edge of that cliff and I wept. I wept for an hour, uncontrollable weeping for like an hour. It did not cease, but tears of joy,’ he continued.

The actor has yet to publicly confirm his addition to the cast as his social media pages have been wiped clean since July — but this marks his first reality TV venture; seen with his parents in 2011

Controversial: Chet has long been synonymous with controversy as he’s made headlines over the years for his erratic behavior in relation to drug and alcohol abuse; seen in 2022

Yikes: He’s also been accused of domestic abuse by a former girlfriend and ‘cultural appropriation’ for impersonating a Jamaican accent; seen in mom Rita Wilson

‘Tears of everything, feeling every emotion at once, all the pain and all the joy.’

Though he was deeply moved by the experience, Chet still ended up venturing down a dark path plagued with drug addiction, alcoholism and violence that got him into legal trouble.

He’s also been accused of cultural appropriation and was previously accused by a girlfriend of abuse in 2021.

Chet told Paul that that period of his life lasted from age 16 to age 24 when he made the decision to get sober.

The star previously admitted to selling coke and smoking crack, before checking into rehab in 2014.

‘A couple months ago I was selling coke [and] doing coke until I couldn’t even snort it up my nose anymore because it was so clogged. I even smoked crack,’ he revealed on Instagram at the time.

He seemingly fell off the wagon in 2021 as he revealed in September 2022 that he’d been sober for just one year.

Chet is the eldest son of Hollywood power couple Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson.

The pair — who have been married since 1988 — also share 27-year-old Truman.

Tom also has daughter Elizabeth Ann, 41, and son Colin, 45, with ex-wife Samantha Lewes.

Chet has long been synonymous with controversy as he’s made headlines over the years for his erratic behavior.

In April, the father-of-one faced backlash for refusing to apologize for culturally appropriating accents.

While appearing on Showtime talk show ZIWE, he was asked if there were any marginalized communities he wanted to apologize to. Hanks replied: ‘Nah.’

Chet had routinely been hit with claims of ‘cultural appropriation’ for frequently attempting to speak in a fake ‘Jamaican’ accent.

In 2020, he was yet again slammed for impersonating what seemed to be Jamaican patois – an English-based creole language with West African influences – in a bizarre video rant about Donald Trump following Joe Biden’s presidential win.

Chet once again impersonated a Jamaican accent at the Golden Globes in 2020, after a video went viral of him speaking Patois and laughing, as he said he didn’t want a ‘mawga’ girl, meaning ‘skinny.’

However, he defended his actions when speaking about cultural appropriation in an Instagram video in February.

He asked: ‘Why are we so caught up on this idea of theft and stealing?’

In July, Chet debuted a massive cross tattoo on his chest as his latest act of devotion to God

Starting fresh: He made the dramatic move of clearing his Instagram entirely before uploading a shirtless photo showcasing his ‘holy’ ink

Purpose: He proclaimed that his life’s ‘purpose’ is to serve God and opened up about his troubled past in a four-slide text post

‘Why are we so quick to be angry and tense over the blurring of racial communities, instead of just being welcoming towards it?’

In 2021 Chet was accused of domestic abuse by his ex-girlfriend Kiana Parker.

A civil suit filed by Parker alleged she was physically and psychologically terrorized by Hanks between October 2020 and 2021.

The lawsuit stated that Hanks shoved and grabbed his ex-girlfriend, threatened to carry out a murder-suicide and branded her a ‘ghetto black b**** who wouldn’t be believed.

Hanks’ lawyer dismissed Parkers’ allegations as a ‘shakedown,’ and claims they are in response to a suit filed by Hanks, claiming that Parker attacked him with a pot, leaving him with blood gushing from a wound on his forehead.

A clip of that confrontation also appeared to show Parker menacing Hanks with a knife while screaming ‘Sh*t.’ The screen faded to black, with Hanks then filmed showing his forehead wound while Parker saying that he ‘pushed her.’

Parker said in her new court documents that Chet got into a clash with her in New Orleans October 18, claiming he pushed her and grabbed her arms and wrists after she said she was leaving the room they had shared at the Windsor Court Hotel.

Parker told the court that Hanks said that said she was ‘just a ghetto black b****’ who wouldn’t be believed, and that he’d threatened the murder-suicide the following month. She added that her nine-year-old twins were at home during the incident.

Chet and Parker were seen in a violent exchange on video January 8, as she was moving her things out of his abode.

Parker, in legal docs, said that Hanks had approached her with a knife in the incident, and she hit him with a pot to defend herself; she received a temporary restraining order in the incident.

Meanwhile his attorney branded the claims ‘completely false, fabricated and fictional.’

Most notably, Chet was slammed by his father Tom’s fans in February of 2022, after he claimed he didn’t have a ‘strong male role model’ growing up, as they insisted he is an ‘entitled brat’ who threw his dad ‘under the bus.’

Chet claimed he did not have a ‘strong male role model’ during his teens while he was struggling with the pressures of having celebrity parents.

Although Chet assured the public that ‘I love my parents’ and ‘wouldn’t want any different parents,’ he confessed having a famous family is ‘a double-edged sword.’

He opened up about his upbringing in a YouTube video titled ‘The Truth About Growing Up As A Hanks’ saying many people had ‘contempt’ for him as a movie star’s child, and while trying to navigate the ‘s***-talking’ and the ‘d***-riders,’ he lacked ‘a strong male role model’ who could have told him: ”Hey, bro, f*** these people. They are just jealous of you.”’

In the video, Chet shared that ‘my experience was even more complicated because on top of fame already being toxic, I wasn’t even famous. You know, I was just the son of somebody famous so I hadn’t even done anything to deserve any sort of recognition and that created a lot of contempt, a lot of contempt for me.’

Chet shared that while his father was ‘on this pedestal,’ he himself was ‘assumed’ to be ‘a really arrogant, entitled spoiled brat even though I really wasn’t.’

During his high school and college years ‘people would make up their minds about me before they even got a chance to know me and it was extremely hard to break down their walls so I encountered a lot of disdain, a lot of animosity, a lot of negativity because everybody was just prepared to hate my guts.’

As a result he wound up with ‘a chip on my shoulder’ and formed a ‘hard exterior’ because of the ‘anger’ he was harboring.

He recalled that ‘people did kinda f*** with me a lot growing up. It was never to my face. It was always behind my back, in the forms of like gossip and s***-talking.’

At the time he was also fielding ‘d***-riders’ who ‘didn’t give a f***ing s*** about me’ but were ‘just infatuated with the idea of hanging around f***ing Tom Hanks’ son.’

In 2015, Chet defended his use of the N-word on social media, saying he believes it ‘unifies the culture of hip-hop across all races.’

In an Instagram post, he said: ‘I do say the n word in real life amongst my black friends who get me and can’t nobody tell me I can’t say what the [expletive] I feel like no disrespect to the struggle of black ppl during the civil rights movement but it’s 2015 now.’

He went on to encourage followers to ‘get with the times.’

However later, Chet admitted that he now ‘realizes’ his white privilege, following a debate about cultural appropriation online.

Cultural appropriation is a phrase to describe when members of a dominant culture use elements from a disadvantaged or minority culture for profit.

Converted: The actor, 32, was a self-processed atheist before converting to Christianity in his late teens and is now devoting his platform to spreading the word of God

Jamaican love: Chet has routinely been hit with claims of ‘cultural appropriation’ for frequently attempting to speak in a fake ‘Jamaican’ accent

Relationship woes: Hanks was accused of domestic abuse by ex-girlfriend Kiana Parker in a $1 million suit she filed against him in 2021

No role model: Chet shocked fans in 2022, after he claimed he didn’t have a ‘strong male role model’ growing up; Pictured with father Tom in 2012

‘This has been an intense period of selfie reflection and it’s been an enlightening period for me,’ he said, but attempted to justify his Jamaican accent, adding: ‘It’s my only liberation from the constant activity of my mental. I am who I am.’

Chet also explained on The Red Pill Podcast with Van Lathan that he, ‘was on a lot of drugs’ when he used the N-word frequently, and when he tried to defend it in a now-deleted Instagram video.

‘Number one, I was on a lot of drugs,’ Hanks said. ‘I wanted to be, like, down, you know what I mean? I just felt like I wasn’t enough.’

‘Lowkey, like subconsciously, looking back on it now I realize I was trolling,’ he said. ‘I thought, like, crazy antics and just whiling the f—k out and doing some crazy s—t was going to like spark my career.’