Do you really care what your ancestors did? Watching Patsy Kensit just now and...

[PeaMcLean]

wondering why she's getting soooo emotional about what someone did 200 years ago.

Now, I am only half watching, and I am interested in what my ancestors did, but I don't think it would move me to tears.

She seems to really think that what her ancestors does somehow reflects on her.

Am I odd in thinking that who your great great great great great grandad was does not impact on who you are today.

but would the todger make up for the very small eyes and very large forehead?

God the things you learn on MN, must find someone to tell that one to tomorrow.

I had a strumpet mistress great grandmother on the maternal side...much confusion over the parenting of Gran and her sisters. Grandma on dads side allegedly had a couple of skeletons maybe a premarital child, pregnant when she got married and a rumour her father had a 2nd family. Grandads background is a complete mystery was never talked about and he was a big talker!!

Amazing how things have changed really.

you'd have to ask the well-endowed millionaire rock star's former wife Patsy Kensit... who knows what she saw in him?

pointy dog im trying to wind down for bed and you are making me laugh (DH is going to think ive gone mad)

she is still obv looking for a 'daddy-husband'

Would the other blokes pat and congratulate or hunch and hide I wonder

lol mmj, good link

lol tmmj, that's great. looks like pats is Really Good at taking direction...

lol cinders
hes funny.

You want to wind down for bed? Try listening to some Simple minds

Hell no, i'll stick with the sound of the dog snoring

My nan knew her grandparents - and the Krays - but who didn't round those parts? Nan said there were flashy and 'a bad lot'. But also saints it seems, so there we go...So was curious since some of the social history had personal resonance. Think she's been trained to do crying when there's a camera around. My husband was completely nonplussed by all the emotion about dead strangers. But I get emotional about the stories of total strangers so can imagine if you get into the whole story of your family and become absorbed you might shed a tear.

oh, I thought it was lovely. I don't like Patsy Kensit as a rule, but I thought her family history was fascinating, and very moving.

I thought the prog was really interersteing and Patsy came across really weel, I have to say I like her having watched this and i liked her clothes/

she's on again! blubbing away on BBC2 for anyone who's interested.

Ahh - I was looking at her blubbing away and intrigued at just what she's done to her face - she was such an icon to me when I was about 4 and she did those Birdseye Peas ads - I so remember the line "Next week we're going to make paper animals!" following one of her earliest recorded "tearful" incidents following the dropping of a drawing in a puddle on the way home from school - nothing that a plate of frozen peas couldn't sort out in them days.

She's also continued with the non-hairwashing reaction - I remember her saying (possibly in Smash Hits - yay I still have my old ones too!!) that when David Bowie touched her hair on the set of Absolute Beginners she didn't wash it for days.

And finally DillyTanty I just wanted to second what a brilliant documentary that episode of The Jews was - unbelievably poignant -now THAT had me blubbing.

it was shattering, wasn't it? that photo of the woman's first daughter? i was In Proper Bits, actually saying 'noooooooo' to the telly.

I think you're all being a bit wicked. She doesn't impinge on me one way or the other but some people are interested in their past and if she is not the brightest spark it's hardly a sin and not something that a person can do too much about. I don't think she's ever claimed to be mastermind.

I thought it was quite interesting, she was obviously moved by it so all well and good.

just watched the Jerry Springer one. he sobbed and so did i.

Oh Gawd - that poor, poor woman - I felt so wrung out after watching it. How does the human spirit survive something as unspeakable as that? That Jerry Springer one will be sure to have me in absolute pieces. It's an excellent programme though isn't it? When you think that someone had the idea to make a programme tapping into the "new" geneology lark with celebrities - they could have come up with a real stinker of a formula. On the whole I think they do it really well.

i do not know how the human spirit survives... and so recent. actually you get a good sense of that with the springer episode, it's all a heartbeat away. and now look what's happening in the sudan, georgia etc, we humans are animals first in a crisis it seems.

Its the first series that I have watched, and I have to say that I found it fascinating. I would love to find out more about my ancestors but wouldnt know where to start.

The PK one was very moving, Would I be able to see the other series anywhere?