MacKenzie Hinton, Child Actor

About two months ago, the post appeared on Facebook: MacKenzie Abigail Hinton, daughter of Jen Millman, was born. Over the ensuing weeks, the cute photos followed: MacKenzie with mommy, MacKenzie with daddy, MacKenzie in a bunny suit, even MacKenzie in a Jets sweatshirt.

Now, an exclusive report by the Glimm Investigative Team reveals the truth: MacKenzie is actually a child actor hired by Millman to pose for photos on Facebook, an elaborate cover story to allow Millman to take a ‘maternity leave’ from her job as Managing Editor of NBCNewYork.com so she could spend the last two months preparing for The Glimm.

How else to explain Millman’s stunning run to the top of the Glimm standings? In her Chessmaster 2 bracket, she picked 26 of 32 games correctly in the first round, including upsets by Hawaii, Wichita State, Yale, Northern Iowa, VCU, Stephan F Austin, Arkansas Little Rock, Gonzaga and Syracuse. She has 55 total points – 29 of them on upset points.

She holds a 1.5-point lead over Donald Drumpf (Evan Kwarta), and a 3.5-point lead over Ezra Kleinbaum and defending champ Sophia Ceglinsky.

But Chessmaster 2 and Drumpf are vulnerable: Both picked Michigan State to reach the championship game.

It could be worse: Michigan State’s stunning loss to Middle Tennessee State wrecked many Glimm brackets. The Spartans were the most popular pick to win the whole thing. When they lost, 54 Glimmers (26% of the whole pool) lost their champion.

Games resume at Noon today, so be sure to check theglimm.com to see if Millman can continue her Glimm mastery.

Leaderboard (click here for full standings):