To not realise these celebs were related?!

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Found out today that Chris Packham and Jenny Packham are siblings, as are Clare Balding and Gordon Ramsey. Learn something every day!

Gladys Knight was once married to David Van Day from Dollar.

Her full name was Gladys Knight Van Day.

I had forgotten about that game - we need a retro game thread!

This is the funniest thread I’ve ever read, keep ‘em coming!

Was listening to the radio the other day and a guy said he couldn’t believe he hadn’t known Pete wicks and Joe wicks were related- they said they’d never had the reaction they had saying but they’re not!!!

She's a lovely girl. Has a brother called Closed but he's a bit shut off.

My nephew brought the school’s pet spider home to look after for the school holidays. It was called Tarantula Lansbury.

Brad Pitt has two brothers. Arm and Cess.

Don't forget William, the younger

I thought Nelsons’ last words were ‘Kiss me Hardy - no tongues obviously’ !!

And William the Elder.

Andrew, the arsehole formerly known as Prince, was once believed to be the son of Freddie Mercury, Brian May and a couple of others, but is now thought to be the offspring of a sad pink and yellow cake and a dreary brown soup.

True

Jim Carrey and Mariah Carey are second cousins - but the two sides of the family aren't close and so they only cross one another's paths briefly at awards ceremonies in Hollywood and the like, they are pleasant enough to one another. It's not a big deal. It's not like they carey.

And his so Mosh, the raver

And his son Mosh, the raver

Who is their distant relative? Works in motor racing? Second name Stop?

And they're also cousins of Gary Numan.

Genius.

This is a commonly believed myth: that Beyonce is the DD of either Nick Knowles or Eric Knowles (the antiques expert). In fact, she's actually the DD of Roy Castle from Record Breakers - but she took Knowles as her stage surname (she stuck a pin in the phone book) as 'apparently' Beyonce Castle wasn't a cool enough name.

Please do.

And the one about if Whoopi Goldberg had married Gerard Depardieu (not that anybody would ever wish that on her), she would have had a name that sounded like somebody screaming on a roller coaster!

I quite literally LOL'd at this 🤣

Anne Hathaway (actress) is a direct descent of Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife). She was so excited to find out that she immediately went out to buy the First Folio and read it in one sitting over several glasses of wine at her favourite budget-friendly pub chain (owned by her friend Reese). She was so inspired that she's setting her new film in that very pub, it's a modern take on Romeo and Juliet called: Bar-Crossed Lovers.

Her cousin wants to do the soundtrack but she's undecided as he's only had one hit and now he makes all of his family have it as their ringtone. Not everyone wants to hear 'What Is Love?' when their GP is calling with their smear results.

Everybody knows about the line-up of top celebrities who started the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain; but few people are aware that Morgan Freeman, Tom Hardy and Bruce Willis joined together and started their own successful chain of shoe shops many years previous to that.

Yessssss!